Re: New dilemma in creation/evolution/ID...

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 06:14:17 GMT, "Kendall K. Down"
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"Ian" <ian.groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Note that if it had been left to natural selection, we would still just have
grey wolves. It was the *removal* of natural selection that allowed
diversity.

So you're saying that without intervention it's the fittest who
survive. Um, yes.

Actually, the New Scientist article pointed out that without intervention
the less-than-fit do not survive - mutations are killed off, which is why
there is less diversity.

What makes the difference between natural and artificial selection is
not that, in artificial selection, the less-fit don't reproduce
enough; it's that what determines fitness is changed. So, those dogs
that have features desired by the breeder are more-fit, in that the
situation they find themselves in favours them reproducing.
--
Alec Brady
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bullshit you, or I may just be bullshitting you inadvertently."
- J. Wainwright Mathematics 140b
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