Bolder-dash writes:
bluegenes writes:
The initial ancestral tendency would, however, have been a random variation. The end result is an example of evolvability itself ( or adaptability if you like) having been selected for.
Once again, like so many of the assertions in the ToE we just have to take evolutionists word for it that this is how it happened, because of course you can't prove this assertion any more than all of the other ones. It must have been random at one time, and then got selected for, and that is how it became non-random.....and so just believe us...
Of course you don't have to take my word for it. It's based on the observation that random variations within species are common, and that advantageous ones are selected for. There's plenty of evidence to support that in the literature, as I'm sure you'd agree.
So, by all means present an (observation based) alternative explanation for the origin of the stress related reactions I was talking about if you disagree. There's certainly no obligation to agree with me.
Bolder-dash writes:
So even when we have examples of evolution being 'guided" by the individual, your theory is so flexible it can simply say, "well, yea, the evolution is guided NOW, but...."
There's a reason why the words "environment" and "individual" are spelt differently. It's because they mean different things. The individual cells do not really guide evolution, they react automatically and unconsciously to starvation induced stress in a way that they've inherited. I said:
bluegenes writes:
....some mutations are partially guided by a combination of environmental factors and the history of the species involved (whether or not it has inherited the tendency to react positively to a specific kind of stress).
Bolder-dash writes:
It should be renamed, The Incredible, Mutating, Adapting, Twisting, and Re-conforming Theory of Evolution of Whatever We Need it to Say That We Don't Have to Prove Theory.
If you look at what I'm describing, and you understand it, you will be able to see that it's all due to variation and natural selection, the very key words used to describe biological evolution 150 years ago. The theory does evolve, of course, but it's only micro-evolution so far.