Re: Difference between random and non-random Natural Selection?

In article <1186260714.872588.266190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
backspace <sawireless2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 4, 9:24 pm, Timberwoof <timberwoof.s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Two things, with some background. DNA contains the instructions for
building an organism; it is normally duplicated along with the organism
during reproduction. First, "Random Mutation" means that during the
process of reproducing the DNA for a new organism, errors sometimes
creep into the copy. The location and effect of the mutations is not
predictable.

Second, "Natural Selection" means that the environment then
allows or does not allow the organism to survive and reproduce.
This can't be falsified. No matter what happens you would tell me the
same story.

Actually, yes, it can be falsified. The hypothesis is that the
environment does not permit certain organisms to and reproduce. Thus
only certain organisms reproduce, and as the environment changes, some
species will die out and others change to become new species more suited
to the changed environment.

A disproof of this hypothesis would be that all organisms would
continue to reproduce unchanged despite changes in the environment, that
there would be a myriad of species, and there would be no extinction of
species.

However, some species do go extinct and other do change into new forms.

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