Irony of the evolutionary belief

[Dan From Smithville]

The rodent has been doing a fine job of engaging this morning. I am in awe of his abilities.

I am an engaging and charming rodent worthy of many accolades and steak dinners.

Please see my website www.rabbitsrulebirdsdrool.org

 

[Dan From Smithville]

The rodent has been doing a fine job of engaging this morning. I am in awe of his abilities.

I too am in awe of my abilities. We should form a club. I nominate you for president.

 

[Little Dragon]

Do these fittest individuals have fitter than average offspring or do they not.

Yes those adaptive traits that offer survival advantage, are passed to offspring, again, fittest for that particular ecological system. That is an important point to underline.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

As an entomologist, one of my jobs is to rear insects for testing. When working with target species that actually attack the plants I am interested in protecting, I have to consider how rearing impacts the populations of insects I am using to evaluate the protective measures.

Raising insects on formulated diets that they do not encounter in the field and raising them in plastic trays is a radically different environment for them. These insects do become adapted to diets and rearing conditions.

Pressure from disease is purposefully reduced. The traits that form the ability to find food are no longer selected in the same way.

What scientists do to support the all mighty experiment we keep hearing about can and sometimes does impact those experiments and this needs to be accounted for and tested.

In an aside, we have seen here and elsewhere, experiment elevated to divine proportions from a side that continually rails against the scientism they see everywhere. That is an irony that I do not think this thread was originally intended to reveal, but it has.

 

[Little Dragon]

The rodent has been doing a fine job of engaging this morning. I am in awe of his abilities.

Lagomorphia (Hares and Rabbits). Technically not rodents, although they and Lagomorphs are closely related sister clades of course.

(Ahem)

 

[exchemist]

I am an engaging and charming rodent worthy of many accolades and steak dinners.

Please see my website www.rabbitsrulebirdsdrool.org

I thought rabbits were lagomorphs rather than rodents. Or is that a pedantic distinction?

 

[exchemist]

Lagomorphia (Hares and Rabbits). Technically not rodents, although they and Lagomorphs are closely related sister clades of course.

(Ahem)

Snap!

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Lagomorphia (Hares and Rabbits). Technically not rodents, although they and Lagomorphs are closely related sister clades of course.

(Ahem)

I knew what he meant and like others here, I choose not to see what is written, but what I wanted it to mean.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I thought rabbits were lagomorphs rather than rodents. Or is that a pedantic distinction?

Oryctolagus omniscience knows all. Oryctolagus runningincircularis reasons in circles. Oryctolagus dansmithvillei gets the babes.

It is the great circle of lies, erm life.

 

[Little Dragon]

I knew what he meant and like others here, I choose not to see what is written, but what I wanted it to mean.

I can't help myself.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I can't help myself.

Me neither.

 

[Little Dragon]

I thought rabbits were lagomorphs rather than rodents. Or is that a pedantic distinction?

Jinx!

 

[Subduction Zone]

Oryctolagus dansmithvillei gets the babes.

And they are hot too:

 

[Dan From Smithville]

And they are hot too:
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And that's just the cartoon versions!

But in the end, they have me reasoning in circles too.

 

[YoursTrue]

Yes those adaptive traits that offer survival advantage, are passed to offspring, again, fittest for that particular ecological system. That is an important point to underline.

Unless, of course, it's a malfunctioning mutation that prevents the organism from successful adaptation to its "environment."

 

[Little Dragon]

And they are hot too:
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Yeah everyone remembers Roger the Rabbit...certainly the boys.

 

[Little Dragon]

Unless, of course, it's a malfunctioning mutation that prevents the organism from successful adaptation to its "environment."

Indeed. Approx 99% of all genetic mutations have no discernible effects on the organism, on average. A few are harmful. Even fewer, are beneficial.

 

[John53]

Lagomorphia (Hares and Rabbits). Technically not rodents, although they and Lagomorphs are closely related sister clades of course.

(Ahem)

That's rabbit propaganda.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

That's rabbit propaganda.

I always get a proper gander.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I always get a proper gander.

I have always found it hard to tell: