Re: [Killietalk] sex

["Richard Pierce" <rwpierce at att_net>]

Please note that evolution is simply defined as "descent with modification".
It doesn't matter if the selection pressure is due to habitat change,
predation, competition or human interference.  The difference you suggest is
the classical creationist red herring that microevolution and macroevolution
are two different things. (I am not saying that you are a creationist, but
this is also one of their arguments.)  We can easily observe microevolution
so it is undeniable.  However macroevolution occurs at a time frame longer
than recorded history, so it cannot be observed directly.  There are plenty
of indirect observations supporting macroevolution and no evidence that the
mechanisms differ between micro- and macroevolution.

Rich P.



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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [Killietalk] sex



Please see my interspersed comment, please...

At 08:50 AM 1/3/2008, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:02:14 -0500
>From: "Richard Pierce" <rwpierce at att_net>
>Subject: Re: [Killietalk] sex
>To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
>
>Maybe its complex because the world is complex.



<Snip>
>As someone who keeps killies, you have seen irrefutable proof of evolution:
>the orange Apyosemion australe and the further development of spotless
>orange Aphyosemion australe.  Evolution simply means "descent with
>modification".  Scientists are still unravelling the mechanisms by which
>evolution works and tracing back the path that evolution has taken.  Will
we
>ever get all the answers?  Probably not, but we know alot more than we did
>100 years ago, and even more than we did 200 years ago.  I have "faith"
that
>we will know more 100 years from now.

It looks more like selective breeding to me, not
evolution.  Evolution suggests natural selection as far as I am concerned.

Larry B,

<snip>


>Rich Pierce
>
>ps.  If you are going to quote someone, it is worthless unless you give the
>citation.  For all we know, your "Doctorite in Denial" could be a Doctor in
>Divinity and not a scientist.  It makes a difference.
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