Greetings,
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This is hard for me to imagine. That random choice and mutations can produce everything.
—"inkorrekt"
A common creationists misconception -
you ignore the important other parts :
* NON-random natural selection
* huge lengths of time
Then, by ignoring the non-random parts, you object that "random choice" can produce anything.
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For the puzzles to be put in place, an external force is necessary. This is the point of discussion. This has nothing to do with mutations.
—"inkorrekt"
There ARE "external forces" - natural selection pressures over enormous lengths of time.
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On the fruit fly, my friends were only trying to find if any Microevolution occured even after millions of mutations. It never happened.
—"inkorrekt"
Micro-evolution is a vague religious term, coined by creationists.
If you want to be understood, please use correct scientific terms, such as :
* mutation (change in genome)
* evolution (change of allele frequency over time)
* speciation (new species)
* common descent thru modification and natural selection
(all words, and errors are mine)
Every generation of fruit-fly has mutations.
These mutations DO add up to evolution (changing allele frequency.)
Over long times, these DO add up to new species.
We DO and HAVE observed new species many times.
Iasion
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