I am short. My friend Butch is tall. Butch has a beautiful daughter who is tall like Butch and you can expect that my daughter is short like me. Offspring tends to align with parent. If we were in some situation where the trait of tallness had a favorable contribution to survival, statistically over time there would be more tall people in the civilization than short people. That is all evolution is. Nothing magical. Time on that scale is difficult for the human mind to comprehend.
A potter does not instantly smack the dry clay and instantiate a pot. It is shaped over time incrementally. The notion of evolution does nothing to explain away the existence of God. To the contrary it provides a perfectly sensible glimpse into the workings of how He might have gone about it.
The Christians who arrogantly put constraints of their perspective on how God was allowed to work are just as imperiled as the atheist who claims there is proof that He does not exist.
Evolution is an observable sequence of actions of predictable consequence and pattern no different than water flowing toward a cliff will make a waterfall. Whether or not it matters in the grand scheme of things will be clarified one day if we still care about it.
Thats is how I view it. Denial of evolution outright is an idication of absolute delusion or understanding of the concept.
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Yep. Variation in a population, some that allow them to more successfully have more offspring, which tend to have the characteristics that helped their parents do better. The disproportionate reproduction acts to solidify the beneficial variations and use them as the basis for the next round. Sexual reproduction allows characteristics from different successful offspring to combine.
The origin of life is a different matter. There being evolution doesn't rule out DNA from other planets, life having come from there, other factors as well that shaped us.
We can see it in dogs. All we have to do is look at how different some breeds are today compared to 100 years ago. We can literally see the traits that dog shows have chosen to be important to various species.
Not one dog ever became a cat. That is the difference between variation and speciation.
What the fuck does this have to do with evolution? The guy that started this thread was talking about how you can't see the changes in a human life; and my point was we can because of dog shows and the dogs that won. The breeders then went and bred those traits/characteristics that won the dog show. That's why so many breeds have health problems. This absolutely was not about dogs evolving into cats. It is about the dramatic change a breed has gone through because of dog shows and breeding programs. Look at the Bull Terrier today compared to 100 years ago.
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