| Torillian said:
I'll toss on the disclaimer again about this not being my field, but here we go. Because evolution is a process of eventual and extremely slow changes I would assume that at some point where complexity was increasing from single celled organisms and breeding became an option where they organisms were able to do both and you could again move from the continuum of a species that propogated solely by asexual means to those that can only do so by breeding. This would be similar to how single cells split to reproduce, but can tranfer genes in order to evolve their species, which is midway between totally asexual reproductive cloning and breeding. Therefore I don't believe there was ever a point where inbreeding was a problem for any surviving species as a whole. |
Fair enough.
My answer to my own question was a little bit different but this works too, in parallel. As I was asking this to you, from the creationist perspective, the way we see genetics and inbreeding is that the original parents of the species (since they were created individually) were of a rich gene set. Disclaimer for me I'm a creationist but I'm not entirely familiar with the creationist theory either. :) So I hear ya. But in asking you and myself that question, I thought that the original parents that evolved would have needed that rich gene set.
How to explain this rich gene set concept. It's that for example when you breed two related individuals, it causes copying errors I guess and data gets smudged (or lost). So the more inbred, the more data is lost. I could be totally out of left field but that was my understanding of it. So from that perspective that's kind of how I answered my own question, but I think your answer is better.
I still don't believe that's what happened but at least you've answered my questions.
And you see, when you do that, it makes me feel better about you, about atheists in general and about evolution. Whether I believe it or not, it defo makes me less hostile. Exchanges like this are when I enjoy talking origins. So there's the flipside answer to OP.
Kudos. And to the others, take notes.
