This One\'s for David (General)

by David Turell , Monday, January 25, 2010, 01:24 (5228 days ago) @ xeno6696


> But it doesn't change that its the most fitting explanation. If there was an intelligence moving wolves to some teleological evolution, then we would see that. 
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> But we don't. -Why would we, if wolves are not coded to change but to simply be there? We see species all over the Earth, single-celled or sexual, that may vary a little bit as nature requires, but never become another species. 
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> We only saw changes when we humans deliberately started selecting for some specific traits.-Absolutely true. 
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> Your case here is really weak. If intelligence guides evolution, then we should be seeing changes occurring NOW that cannot be attributed to selection.-How would you prove that statement? Intelligent coding may or may not require any more selection than has occurred with the extant wolf species. In other words, wolves may not change unless DNA internal coding requires it.
 
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> It means that wolves have a form that is extremely well-suited for what they do and where they live, and it faces no pressure to change. This is an argument that supports natural selection, not undermines it.-Only if you accept evolutionary theory as you do. I think you have the whole concept backwards. You keep forgetting that natural selection is totally passive. It cannot act, as I repeat over and over, unless there is a natural challenge, and variation, that is appropriate for the challenge, exists in advance of the challenge.