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This is a great article which can provide insight even into human evolution.

So long as you accept an intelligent outside influence!

Unless you are suggesting that Balyaev and his lab techs weren't intelligent!

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Actually I think that some environmental pressure coupled with some accidents made protohumans evolve into more tame creatures with arrested juvenile traits.

Intelligent design can accelerate this kind of evolution drastically. And the result will be much clear to observers. Intelligent design has just made the process more efficient.

Actually, they pushed a trait, just as an environment would. They created an environment unfreindly to untamed animals, those that were tamable were able to reproduce, those that were not, did not.

The environment around a creature will do the same thing. if it gets colder, those with warmer furs will survive to reproduce, if it gets warmer, those with less fur will reproduce. Climate changes are NOT sudden, this would give the animals PLENTY of time to evolve to the changing environment that they lived in.

Intelligence is NOT necessary for changes to take place, environmental changes are all that is necessary.

In order to experiment, the experiment MUST be controlled, or the answers will not be at all reliable.

This experiment indeed shows that when a trait is pushed, it will reproduce and those with that trait will survive.

Evolution, on a very small controlled scale, but it IS evolution.

This is a great article which can provide insight even into human evolution.
So long as you accept an intelligent outside influence!

Unless you are suggesting that Balyaev and his lab techs weren't intelligent!

Tell me how the lab tech's selection for tameness is any different from a desert's selection for animals resistant to dehydration.