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To: alexander_busek

Good answers, not really getting your auto analogy but appreciate it

As to chickens, forgive my ignorance, but as I understand it chickens have been doing this egg a day thing for along time, before there was engineering to make this happen.

Like orange trees, never (not that there are not), have I seen great flicks of wild chickens lol
The reason I bring up advantage, is that is a prime part of Darwin’s theory. There is a benefit or advantage to the mutation that promotes this over something it was…

Not a biologist, just an observer


78 posted on 12/15/2023 3:28:26 PM PST by blitz128
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To: blitz128
The reason I bring up advantage, is that is a prime part of Darwin’s theory.

I beg your pardon! I didn't realize that I was conversing with someone who already had a thorough grounding in Darwin's theory, and was qualified to expound upon it.

You are leaning too heavily upon the meaning of words used in common, everyday speech (variant of the Semantic Fallacy), with a good measure of the Teleological Fallacy.

Words like "goal" or "benefit" are work-arounds when explaining evolutionary mechanisms. Like if you were to point out that my usage of the word "mechanism" necessarily implies that there must therefore have been a "mechanic" to devise it!

Regards,

95 posted on 12/15/2023 10:38:08 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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