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I don't ignore mutations. I just have beef with the "selection" process.
Doesn't selecting something infer intelligence?
Not at all.
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What is selecting what?
The environmental conditions into which an organism is born consists of selective pressures that act upon those organisms. For example, in a cold environment, an individual born with a slightly thicker undercoat is likely to reproduce more successfully than other individuals in that population with a thinner undercoat. If more of the thicher coated individuals survive to also reproduce, then a thicker coat tends to spread throughout the population. The thinner coats will become less numerous. And so on.
By the way, the thin coat can become an advantage if the environment becomes warmer, so the entire process can, and has been observed to go the other way if the environmental pressures push it thus.
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If mutations were random then there would be no need for a selection process.
Huh? This doesn't make any sense to me.
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Mutations in my theory come from a sinful nature coupled with close relationships like intermarriage.
Everyone on the planet is born with at least several mutations.
I also think you believe that mutations are always detrimental. Of course, they are not. Most mutations are neutral, as in they don't affect reproductive success. Some are detrimental, and most of those get weeded out of the population, obviously. A few are beneficial, and those spread throughout the population.
It seems to me that you don't really understand much about what Biologists, rather than anti-science religious people, consider the ToE to actually be.
Furthermore, if you think the ToE is bunk, then what do you think of the hundreds of thousands of Biologists and other scientists over the last 150 or so years who have used the ToE as the foundational theory of their fields?
Are they, to a person, incompetent scientists? Deluded? Engaged in a protracted, elaborate conspiracy? Complete dunderheads?
I'd like to get your perspective on this issue, but not here, as it would be off topic. Happily, there is an existing thread that deals with this very thing
here. See you there!
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