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Creationists:: What would convince you that evolution has happened ?

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Andor
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Message 140 of 385 (12056)
06-24-2002 10:03 AM 		Reply to: Message 139 by SAGREB
06-24-2002 9:41 AM

Evolution is a two step process. You're forgetting the second step:
-1.Chance
-2.Selection
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The probabilities change radically if someone (artificial selection) or something (natural selection), intervenes discarding certain elements and choosing others.
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06-25-2002 7:32 AM 		Reply to: Message 158 by SAGREB
06-25-2002 4:40 AM

The only necessity for selection to act is the existence of a self-replicant.
Surely there were replicons many many years before the cell appeared, subjects to improvement in its capacity of doing a exact copy of themselves, by NS.
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Probably, even before, it existed chemical evolution, also mediated by selection.
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