Interesting since I’m reading Origin of the Species at the moment. So far, everything in it makes sense (that animals naturally breed to improve their “stock”) so we’ll see where it goes.
I read Voyage of the Beagle a few years ago, which he wrote before Origin of Species. Quite interesting too.
[we’ll see where it goes]
It’s in the BOOK that’s the way it will be. Yes and no, never maybe.
JOHN 1
The Word (Christ) was in the beginning. The Word was with God. The Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 He made all things. Nothing was made without Him making it. 4 Life began by Him. His Life was the Light for men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness. The darkness has never been able to put out the Light.
Origin of the Species
fake news
plus they all die in the end.
hehehe
It’s been a long time coming. Macro Evolution has been dead for about 40 years, really. It has been killed over and over again. Every new theory to support it has gone bust. Now this to cap it all off.
But they don't. And I speak as an animal breeder. When a female is in heat any male will mount her and it does not matter if he is the best, just the closest.
That is human bred livestock is many times superior to their wild brothers. Larger, stronger, healthier.
Miss Marmelstein —
disclosure: educated years ago in physiology, genetics, general life sciences.
Please note that “species” is an important word. In general terms the ‘boundary’ of a species is what species A can sexually reproduce with and produce fertile offspring. Cats cannot mate with dogs, and get pregnant ... because they are different species. Simple.
Darwin correctly noted that WITHIN a species, natural selection does cause the most viable members of a species’ population in a given environment to produce the most viable, surviving offspring, generation over generation — because the offspring won the genetic lottery over time/generations, and had the longest necks, best eyes, longest fur, etc. But even these seemingly unique offspring could still mate with and produce fertile offspring with other members of the SAME species who has short necks, weak eyes, and short hair. Darwin MISSED it when trying to demonstrate the evolution of new SPECIES due to environmental pressures on a population. Even modern science/genetics ‘knows’ that environmental stress does NOT cause species A to give birth to Species B.
Look at it this way: Darwin observed the phenotype and reached conclusions about the genotype. WHAT??? He looked at feathers, beaks, tails, colors and decided these were new species unique to Galapagos. Nope; not in genetics. The weird birds of Galapagos could still have mated with their peers no the mainland. *IF* one were to apply Darwin’s metrics and criteria for identifying and segregating species to humans, then a tall blonde swede with blue eyes would be a different species than a dark-skinned, short, black-haired, brown-eyed Amazon pygmy. Nope — all humans.
I’d suggest you read Darwin ‘knowing’ that he was wrong, and he even doubted he was right.
*IF* you are a genetic nerd or deeply interested in this topic, I suggest you read. “The Language of God” by Dr. Francis Collins. He is a triple PHD who was raised atheist, led the project to decode the human genome (successfully to a narrow depth), and exited the project understanding that what he had previously believed about the origins of life and species was all wrong.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NY12E6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I don't know a whole lot about this (FR Alert! Mrs. Don-o Does Not Know a Lot About This!) but let me recommend "Darwin's Black Box" by biochemist Michael Behe.
He started out like everybody in science does, with "Yeah, little incremental successful adaptations, generation after generation, all adds up to new and better structures and eventually new species" etc. etc. "Probably there are a bunch of researchers who have shown how this happens step-by-step on a biochemical level."
Except they hadn't.
And then Behe ran into the mousetraps. The "Irreducibly Complex" machines.
There are some snazzy intro videos here, ranging from 1 to 1 1/2 min, to an hour or hour-and-a-half, if you want your appetite whetted.
Intraspecies adaptation does not equal extraspecies evolution.
Lysenkoism! the Vanguard of Evolution. Or was that Revolution? I forget.