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You do realize that you just used a strawman argument, don't you?
The chaos theory of evolution has been replaced by epigenetic inheritance since 2005. Epigenetic inheritance explains using the genome table and shows that Darwin was wrong about mutation causing large genetic changes and possibly some environment causing changes by natural selection. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was one of the first to study changes caused by genetic factors.
"Darwin was not the first naturalist to propose that species changed over time into new species—that life, as we would say now, evolves. In the eighteenth century, Buffon and other naturalists began to introduce the idea that life might not have been fixed since creation. By the end of the 1700s, paleontologists had swelled the fossil collections of Europe, offering a picture of the past at odds with an unchanging natural world. And in 1801, a French naturalist named Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck took a great conceptual step and proposed a full-blown theory of evolution.
Lamarck started his scientific career as a botanist, but in 1793 he became one of the founding professors of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle as an expert on invertebrates. His work on classifying worms, spiders, molluscs, and other boneless creatures was far ahead of his time.
Change through use and disuse
Lamarck was struck by the similarities of many of the animals he studied, and was impressed too by the burgeoning fossil record. It led him to argue that life was not fixed. When environments changed, organisms had to change their behavior to survive. If they began to use an organ more than they had in the past, it would increase in its lifetime. If a giraffe stretched its neck for leaves, for example, a "nervous fluid" would flow into its neck and make it longer. Its offspring would inherit the longer neck, and continued stretching would make it longer still over several generations. Meanwhile organs that organisms stopped using would shrink.
Lamarck believed that the long necks of giraffes evolved as generations of giraffes reached for ever higher leaves.
Organisms driven to greater complexity
This sort of evolution, for which Lamarck is most famous today, was only one of two mechanisms he proposed. As organisms adapted to their surroundings, nature also drove them inexorably upward from simple forms to increasingly complex ones. Like Buffon, Lamarck believed that life had begun through spontaneous generation. But he claimed that new primitive life forms sprang up throughout the history of life; today's microbes were simply "the new kids on the block."
Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck's hypothesis of changes due to heredity were largely discarded by Darwin's ToE, but today it has come back due to epigenetics and the study of inheritance. With epigentic inheritance, one doesn't need the millions of years to affect changes like Darwin's hypothesis does. It's based on epigenetics or software instructions which turn on or off switches in one's cells for a particular trait. What's interesting is that these switches or instructions can be passed on one's children and grandchildren.
It started with your misreading of Flew.
The chaos theory of evolution has been replaced by epigenetic inheritance since 2005. Epigenetic inheritance explains using the genome table and shows that Darwin was wrong about mutation causing large genetic changes and possibly some environment causing changes by natural selection. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was one of the first to study changes caused by genetic factors.
"Darwin was not the first naturalist to propose that species changed over time into new species—that life, as we would say now, evolves. In the eighteenth century, Buffon and other naturalists began to introduce the idea that life might not have been fixed since creation. By the end of the 1700s, paleontologists had swelled the fossil collections of Europe, offering a picture of the past at odds with an unchanging natural world. And in 1801, a French naturalist named Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck took a great conceptual step and proposed a full-blown theory of evolution.
Lamarck started his scientific career as a botanist, but in 1793 he became one of the founding professors of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle as an expert on invertebrates. His work on classifying worms, spiders, molluscs, and other boneless creatures was far ahead of his time.
Change through use and disuse
Lamarck was struck by the similarities of many of the animals he studied, and was impressed too by the burgeoning fossil record. It led him to argue that life was not fixed. When environments changed, organisms had to change their behavior to survive. If they began to use an organ more than they had in the past, it would increase in its lifetime. If a giraffe stretched its neck for leaves, for example, a "nervous fluid" would flow into its neck and make it longer. Its offspring would inherit the longer neck, and continued stretching would make it longer still over several generations. Meanwhile organs that organisms stopped using would shrink.
Lamarck believed that the long necks of giraffes evolved as generations of giraffes reached for ever higher leaves.
Organisms driven to greater complexity
This sort of evolution, for which Lamarck is most famous today, was only one of two mechanisms he proposed. As organisms adapted to their surroundings, nature also drove them inexorably upward from simple forms to increasingly complex ones. Like Buffon, Lamarck believed that life had begun through spontaneous generation. But he claimed that new primitive life forms sprang up throughout the history of life; today's microbes were simply "the new kids on the block."
Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck's hypothesis of changes due to heredity were largely discarded by Darwin's ToE, but today it has come back due to epigenetics and the study of inheritance. With epigentic inheritance, one doesn't need the millions of years to affect changes like Darwin's hypothesis does. It's based on epigenetics or software instructions which turn on or off switches in one's cells for a particular trait. What's interesting is that these switches or instructions can be passed on one's children and grandchildren.
Come to think of it, Darwinism and Solyndra do have a lot in common
Actually they have been found, again your total ignorance of the science of evolution is leering its ugly head. The phony balooney arguing from ignorance continues unabated based on a religious agenda.
From: 7-Million-Year-Old Fossils Show How the Giraffe Got Its Long Neck
7-Million-Year-Old Fossils Show How the Giraffe Got Its Long Neck
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | November 25, 2015 07:49am ET
For years, there has been scant fossil evidence showing how the giraffe evolved to have such an admirably long neck. But now, the remains of a 7-million-year-old creature with a shorter neck provides proof that the giraffe's iconic feature evolved in stages, lengthening over time, a new study finds.
The researchers are calling the remains of this ancient beast true "transitional" fossils, not only closing an evolutionary gap in the rise of Earth's tallest animals, but also providing concrete evidence of how one creature evolved into another.
"We actually have an animal whose neck is intermediate [in length] — it's a real missing link," said Nikos Solounias, a professor of anatomy at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) College of Osteopathic Medicine and the lead researcher on the study.
The creature in question — Samotherium major —lived during the Late Miocene in the forested areas of Eurasia, ranging from Italy to China, Solounias said. [In Photos: See Cute Pics of Baby Giraffes]
An ancestor of the giraffe split into two evolutionary branches, one leading to the okapi with its short neck and the other branch leading to the giraffes.
Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist
Researchers first discovered S. majorfossils in 1888, but the creature's importance wasn't realized until much later, said Solounias, who first got a glimpse of the fossils at a museum in Germany in the 1970s when he was working on his doctoral thesis.
"When I saw these bones, my breath was taken away," Solounias told Live Science.
The neck bones of S. major were shorter than those of a modern giraffe, but longer than those of the short-necked okapi, the giraffe's only living relative. Solounias didn't have the time or money to study the bones at the time, but he and his colleagues returned to them this year.
They analyzed the neck bones of four S. major individuals, three giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) and three okapis (O. johnstoni). On average, giraffes had 6.5-foot-long (2 meters) necks. In comparison, the necks of S. major were about 3.2 feet (1 m) long, and the okapi necks extended about 1.9 feet (60 centimeters).
The findings surprised them: Not only was the length of the S. major neck between that of the giraffe neck and the okapi neck, but its shape and the angles between bones were also intermediate.
If the researchers were to paint an S. major neck, color-coding its giraffelike parts red and its okapilike parts white, the top of the neck would be covered with red and white dots, and the bottom of the neck would be pink, the researchers said.
An illustration of the giraffe, Samotherium major and okapi necks and skulls.
Credit: Nikos Solounias
"In every way, it's intermediate," said study first author Melinda Danowitz, a medical student at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine. "It's completely between the two living species."
The researchers also examined how S. major held its neck. The findings are preliminary, but based on the position of the bones, it appears that S. major held its neck vertically, as a giraffe does, instead of horizontally, as a cow does, they said.
The researchers also noted that S. majoris not a direct ancestor of the giraffe. "It's near the direct ancestor," Solounias said. "But the direct ancestor has not been found yet."
The finding is "very important," said Donald Prothero, a research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, who was not involved with the new study.
"Contrary to what some creationists say, we do have transitional fossils that show how one kind of animal evolved from another," Prothero told Live Science. "We finally have fossils that show how giraffes got their long neck from short-necked ancestors, which most fossil giraffids were."
Sorry, you do not understand epigenetics. It does not create permanent changes.