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

Ken Down wrote:

I repeat, the point is that in the wild and without human intervention, you
would not get such a wide variety of dogs. The wide variety of dogs cannot,
therefore, be taken as evidence for evolution as a producer of species.

The wide variety of dogs is a refutation of this silly argument:

"Sure, evolution can make small changes like changing the
colour of a bird's wings or the length of a monkey's tail,
but it can't do anything really big because there's a limit
to how much variation can be produced by small changes. You
could never get from a housecat to a puma just by accumulating
small changes."

and not of this one:

"Sure, evolution can make small changes, or even rather big
ones, but *natural selection* could never bring about big
changes, because I say so."

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Gareth McCaughan
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