Wildswanderer
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According to your theory.Adaptation is evolution. The *only* difference is the number of generations involved.
Adaptation is not what I mean by evolution.
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According to your theory.Adaptation is evolution. The *only* difference is the number of generations involved.
Actually, not according to the current picture of neanderthals. They look basically like modern humans. If you met this guy you wouldn't think him anything but human. And some scientists are acknowledging they are us, now.The two main characteristics of humans are the fact that they walk upright and have brains that are large for their body size.
The protruding forehead of modern humans is quite different than the brow ridge seen in, say, Neanderthals.
According to your theory.
Adaptation is not what I mean by evolution.
You know gradualism was rejected a long time ago, right?
So, you picked two mammals to show that reptiles are not different from mammals?
In fact, I believe I mentioned they do adapt.
According to your theory.
Adaptation is not what I mean by evolution.
Well actually I did come across someone (on a bus once) who did look almost exactly like a neanderthal, and it was a shock. I was tempted to ask where he was from but lacked the courage.Actually, not according to the current picture of neanderthals. They look basically like modern humans. If you met this guy you wouldn't think him anything but human. And some scientists are acknowledging they are us, now.
Again, small changes are possible because we have that information already encoded in our DNA. You can not however, make a cow from a lizard. Or a jet from a unicycle.People are free to reject a theory (despite the overwhelming evidence) but they really aren't free to redefine it so that it's easier to disagree with. That's misrepresentation or a straw man fallacy (something creationists do a lot).
Evolution on a large scale is just lots of small adaptations. There is no qualitative difference. That's what the theory says evolution is. It's that claim that you have to address. Just saying that you use the word differently is not an argument against it, it just shows that you don't understand what you're talking about.
To disagree you'd have to (for example) put forward some mechanism that you think would stop small changes adding up to large ones over long time periods. At the very least you'd need a proper definition of what you think the limits of adaptation are (and vague hand-waving about 'kinds' is not a proper definition).
I'm arguing against the whole model. No creationists debate that adaptation happens.
Perhaps you should try and argue against what evolution REALLY says, instead of you want it to say, or imagine it to say, or pretend it to say, or believe that it says? That is, if you are indeed hellbend on arguing against it.
In any case, good job shooting yourself in the foot here. You just acknowledged that you are arguing a strawman.
Again, small changes are possible because we have that information already encoded in our DNA. You can not however, make a cow from a lizard.
But a lizard can become a cow with lots of adaptation and intermediate species?Why are you so determined to emphasise your own ignorance of the subject? If a cow became a lizard, that would falsify the theory of evolution.
Because it's impossible.As has already been pointed out, there is plenty of examples where information has been added to DNA. And you ignored the point about small changes adding up to arbitrarily large ones.
According to your theory.
Adaptation is not what I mean by evolution.
But a lizard can become a cow with lots of adaptation and intermediate species?
Because it's impossible.
I'm arguing against the whole model.
No creationists debate that adaptation happens.
I'm arguing against the whole model. No creationists debate that adaptation happens.
Depends on what you mean by that as no theory is ever "perfect", but the basic ToE has so much evidence within it that it's considered to be a scientific axiom that involves much of what we call "biology". Life forms change over time, and we well know that, such as what we are seeing with the numerous covid variations, thus it stands to even just common sense that life forms evolve.Because obviously it was a faulty theory to start with.