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    Question for people that believe in evolution

    Out of curiosity, I'd like to know what role you think God plays in evolution. Not to be intrusive, but I'd just like to know your beliefs regarding this and the reasons you have for those beliefs. You accept evolution as a mechanism for how new species bud off from ancestral species. What do...
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    Question for people that believe in evolution

    Yes, I think you could generalise evolutionary change in that way.
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    Question for people that believe in evolution

    Just to clear something up... What you describe is not genetic drift. You're describing change in the genetic composition of a population by means of natural selection - individuals with a positive trait get to reproduce more than others, hence the name 'positive trait'. Genetic drift would be...
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    Question for people that believe in evolution

    You probably mean 4.3 billion years (it's more like 4.54, just for accuracy). The age of the Earth wasn't determined by radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dating only works on the scale of thousands to tens of thousands of years. The C-14 isotope undergoes radioactive decay (hence the method)...
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    Question for people that believe in evolution

    This may have been posted before, but... The main evidence that makes me accept evolution are the combination of the following two facts: One - we can construct a phylogenetic tree for ALL organisms on Earth based on genetic and molecular similarities and differences. Two - before...
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