Comment Re:Maybe that's why we die (Score 1) 518
>Hahahah yeah right. Show me where one species has >had its DNA changed or altered and remained >viable, and even reproduced. We're not talking >natural selection... that's not really evolution.
Nobody said that natural selection was evolution...certainly not Darwin. Natural selection is merely one mechanism proposed by which evolution occurs. Darwin's original theory proposed a combination of natural selection and sexual selection as the mechanism by which evolution occured. There are others out there, most notably Lamarkism, which actually predated Darwinian theory by at least a couple of decades. One of the favorite creationist remarks against evolution is that biologists themselves can't seem to agree on what evolution is; in fact most of them will agree that evolution does occur, the only point up for arguement is the mechanism by which that evolution progresses..and as for species that undergo persistant changes, it happens almost constantly in bacteria and other types of microbes (and if you want to think that bacterial genetics isn't applicable to higher order organisms, then you should go back to BIO 100)
Nobody said that natural selection was evolution...certainly not Darwin. Natural selection is merely one mechanism proposed by which evolution occurs. Darwin's original theory proposed a combination of natural selection and sexual selection as the mechanism by which evolution occured. There are others out there, most notably Lamarkism, which actually predated Darwinian theory by at least a couple of decades. One of the favorite creationist remarks against evolution is that biologists themselves can't seem to agree on what evolution is; in fact most of them will agree that evolution does occur, the only point up for arguement is the mechanism by which that evolution progresses..and as for species that undergo persistant changes, it happens almost constantly in bacteria and other types of microbes (and if you want to think that bacterial genetics isn't applicable to higher order organisms, then you should go back to BIO 100)