Darwinist ignorance and confusion (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 13, 2010, 19:20 (5276 days ago) @ xeno6696


> I've thought about this for a few days, but I'm not sure I'm fully on board:
> 
> We agree that evolution requires these things:
> 1. An organism capable of change
> 2. A change must happen (by whatever mechanism we've discussed)
> 3. Natural Selection must be applied to it. 
> 
> We already have discussed and agreed that 1 & 2 have three categories: Good changes, Neutral changes, and bad changes. Natural selection operates on both Good and bad, and ignores neutral. So when we're discussing speciation it seems clear that at this level it's a two step process, and in terms of speciation, step 3 is the most important.-I agree. Natural selection decides if a new species stays around, but the new species must contain adaptive mechanisms (epigenetic) that can move quickly against challenges..