[Westbrook]

> Species continue to evolve

Really? I musta missed something.

All that’s ever been observed is creatures adapting by expressing different genes that are already extant in their DNA, or mutating because of loss or damage to genetic information.

[knarf]

I stopped reading right there .... looked at the author's name .... shook my head .... and came here to reply ...

movin' on

[knarf]

Yesterday I came across a youtube clip of a giraffe mama giving birth .... pretty fascinating

My attention was drawn away to the "adaption" concept that a giraffe is often used to explain evolution ..... and it occured to me ....

WHY .... would some tiny creature look up from whatever he was eating .... to a tree so miserably out of his reach .... and desire the leaves that he determined in his heart to access ..... and drag his entire extended family along with him ?

How many did he murder by starvation while the evolutionary process accomplished it's ends ?

Does he miss the easy pickin's of the ground smorgasbord that is now no longer available to him ?

Does he ever wonder ... "What was I thinking ?"

[MrB]

If anything, “species” are getting weaker and less able to adapt because of loss of the original information encoded in each kind.