From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Religon, Christ vs. the Other Guy
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:28:59 -0600
----- 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.
Sorry, respectfully, you're just repeating what someone told you in a book
or that you saw on television. They adapted. Plenty of animals adapt to
the change of season, by having a white coat. The moths adapted by changing
color based upon environemnetal changes. They did not become super-moths.
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
That for one, is not evolutionary in as in origins of species and changing
species, but second of all, in your example, it took an intelligence to
bring that breeding about.
Tom C. (with repsect)
