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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Natural selection can't help you if the appendage you have growing on your back is useless.

This is true, by definition. However I'd note that it won't necessarily hurt you, and it will help you if that appendage is useful - gives you any kind of selective advantage.

If something is highly complex so that it is useless unless it is already constructed in one go, such as a light sensitive spot

Oh yes, the old eye canard. Actually, the evolution of the eye is pretty well understood. You might want to google it and save me the trouble of copying and pasting a primer for you.

38 posted on 10/28/2014 10:33:10 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
Oh yes, the old eye canard. Actually, the evolution of the eye is pretty well understood. You might want to google it and save me the trouble of copying and pasting a primer for you.

Copy and paste away, and we'll see how well you do at defending it.

39 posted on 10/28/2014 10:34:47 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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