----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Religon, Christ vs. the Other Guy
This proves only that species have the ability to adapt to their environment, and that birds could more easily see and therefore prey upon lighter colored moths, not that they have the ability to change from one species into another. Those moths are still the same species of moth, regardless of what color they are. They did not become something more than moths.
Evolution is just natural selection, survival of the fittest, and passing traits that allow one to survive onto future generations. The moths evolved sufficiently to allow survival of their species, if other forces had been brought to bear on them, forces insufficient to wipe them out, but sufficient to force further evolution, they may well have become something more than they started out as.
If you want to see evolution in action, take a look at the canine world. Humans have been messing with them for a while now, and have forced many evolutionary changes on them. We call them different breeds. Interestingly, if you allow several breeds of dogs to interbreed for a few generations, they devolve right back to something that looks kind of like our Zenit.
William Robb
