Has natural selection really been tested and verified?

No it doesn't. It states that it makes those heritable traits more common, not that it produces them.

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No, the DNA is inheritable traits. Mutations are changes to those inheritable traits. When there are changes, NS starts to work on them, because the environment hasn't changed, but the traits of the individual have. Whether it is a positive or negative trait doesn't matter, NS will act upon it. It will also act when the environment changes, yet the traits remain the same.

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Well, I've heard Wounded King mention that each individual has about 100 mutations that their parents don't have. But you really should ask him about that, I don't really know.

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But nobody says evolution can work without RM. We say NS can work without RM, which is true. That's because for some reason you don't seem to be able to grasp what we are saying. NS has nothing to do with RM, Evolution has to do with both of them. And nobody is saying we should. It can't. Yeah, sure...It's not our problem you fail to grasp what we are trying to tell you.So, one more time. When talking about evolution, you're including RM and NS, when talking about NS, RM becomes irrelevant. When talking about RM, NS becomes irrelevant.Is it clear now? And don't go off about why everybody says you can't talk about evolution, you can, it's just so broad a topic that it will lead to a complete derailment of the thread. This is why we keep threads to more isolated topics here, and this is why everybody is telling you that you are off-topic, because you're original question was only about NS.Now then. Is it clear? If not, please ask specific questions. Thanks.

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No. I have no moderator privileges here whatsoever, I simply tried to explain where the confusion is coming from, and to give you some tips on how to prevent it. My side has reality to support it. You can see that at the top of the page, my number of posts in this thread are listed there. None. I first tried to get the confusion to go away. Bully into? None. I simply give you my oppinion and view of things, feel free to ignore them.

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Since it's still not entirely clear to me what the topic of this thread was supposed to be about, I'll just keep this summation to NS (Natural Selection), which was the original question asked in the OP.Throughout the thread we've been trying to make clear that NS works regardless of whether there are changes to the DNA or not. And that this has absolutely nothing to do with RM (Radnom Mutations). There have been examples given of NS at work in the wild, so clearly it has been demonstrated to work.The most important thing to remember perhaps is that evolutionary change (something the OP wanted to see if NS had any effect on), is indeed effected by NS. Extinction is also evolution, so even if there were no RM and every species would go extinct, that would still be evolutionary change, and it would be accomplished by NS alone.

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Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
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