Slimebeast said: These are minor changes no more than the variation that already exists within most species. None of this shows how a monkey evolved from a fruit fly or from a pool of slime. You never hear of a fruit fly that resemb |
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We've already went through this case on VGC and debunked it. It does not demonstrate evolution before our eyes.
For all we know the skunks choice between laying eggs or giving birth could be regulated by temperature or some other externally regulated mechanism."
The whole point, that you are missing, is that evolution comes from these kinds of natural variation. Think about the way humans are. They say "you can be anything". It's not really true is it? ALL humans combined have the capability to be anything, but one single person cannot be anything, because they are not predisposed to EVERYTHING. Compare it to the skink.Humans do not have the choice to be ANYTHING, because they cannot be EVERYTHING. You can't take the southern skink and move it north and then suddenly it births differently. In the same way, you can't just say "be a baseball player", because even reared from birth not everyone has what it takes, physically and mentally.
So, you make a situation where only baseball players can mate. Due to their genes and ability, most of their kids will be able to play baseball very competantly. Let's now move them to the mountain range. But, I'm now bored of baseball, so I introduce a new qualifier for reproduction, say, has no body hair, or only sweet handlebar mustaches, or their legs exceed a proportion of body length.
Now say AIDS ravages my population. Currently, 1% of people are immune to HIV. The only ones left are immune. Now my mini race is all HIV-immune athletes with handlebar mustaches. This only took a couple hundred years to acheive. Now think about what I could do with 7 million.