It was an answer. A minor change in the genetic code which will enable someone to run faster has zero effect on reproduction. Well, except that the person may live longer to actually reproduce.Freddy:
I guess this means, no answer.
It doesn’t, it’s one mutation. Honestly these evolution debates go all over the place. Usually you’ll have some folks saying “mutation occurs, no one debates that” and 2 lines later another person arguing against evolution saying “mutations don’t occur” so I’m stepping back to basics I guess. You said yourself there’s no beneficial mutations so what use is it to worry about speciation if you’re stuck on every mutation being a death sentence for a species?
Minor changes or major changes have no effect on genetic reproduction markers and identifiers.
Such statements have no basis because physical changes have no connection with species identifiers.
I have no idea what that means. Unless you mean that, for example, a fish that evolves lungs and an ability to walk on dry land cannot be a different species from one that can only survive in water. That makes no sense at all.
There’s no beneficial mutation(s), that’s what i said. Mutation happens to genes, genes express proteins, proteins obtain the functionality from their structure therefore mutations only affect the structure of the protein. It might need several mutations, probably thousands for the effect to be seen in the physical trait. For this reason, we don’t actually have beneficial mutations; mutations have to be looked as individual mutations.
This is not what evolution proposes because evolution also explains appearance of structures and body plans.
If you take chimpanzee’s sperms and try to fertilize a human ovum, it won’t produce a zygote successfully. What actually prevents this from happening is molecular markers and identifiers for each species.
You have given a good explanation as to how the environment can influence colour change.
When mankind sets these goals, we use intelligent design to go faster, further and have better vision. Blind nature has no goals, so starting from abiogenesis, what influenced these mutations to happen in the first place?.
Granted, but God is more important than evolution to me.
Of course it is an advantage to go faster, further and see better, I don’t think anyone is questioning this aspect of evolution. The debate is mostly about; did this happen by a natural process without god, or did it need God to guide it?
There was no intelligence involved in my son being a faster runner. And none involved in my daughter being slightly slower. All accidents of nature.Freddy:
When mankind sets these goals, we use intelligent design to go faster, further and have better vision. Blind nature has no goals, so starting from abiogenesis, what influenced these mutations to happen in the first place?.
That’s what I’ve been saying. If you believe in God then He must have been involved. You can pick creationism if you read the bible as a fundamentalist. Or select evolution if you understand the process.
You answered your own question. Any environment in which seeing, or seeing better, provides a survival advantage. I’m not sure I could name an environment in which better sight wouldn’t reasonably be expected to provide a benefit. Possible cave dwelling creatures that live in absolute darkness.
Yes, cave fish are often blind, having lost the genes for eyes. Moles, and mole-rats, also live mainly underground are a very poorly sighted.
But, but… how can we deny “intelligent design”? It is visible to all of us. Just look at our ears, they point forward and thus their back side presents a great tool to hold our anti-virus mask! Just imagine, if our ears would be oriented backwards, the masks would simply slide off, and we would be even more exposed to the virus!
I’m amazed at how most everyone has just the right amount of skin to cover their body. Coincidence? I think not!Freddy:
But, but… how can we deny “intelligent design”?
And our legs. They are precisely long enough to reach the ground; not too long and not too short. Exactly the correct length. Obviously intelligent design!
And the average number of legs is so close to the required two it’s hardly credible.Freddy:
And our legs. They are precisely long enough to reach the ground; not too long and not too short. Exactly the correct length. Obviously intelligent design!
Were you always there? How can you make such a doctrine? Are you trying to be the Pope? Are you trying to be God? Isn’t time a created thing? Doesn’t God exist out of time?
Yes I was there in a previous lifetime, though I can no longer remember it. I am trying to be a Bodhisattva, not the Pope.
Before the Triune Almighty God of Holiness, Justice, Love and Mercy created space-time, there was no place to have a previous lifetime.