Is Darwin's Theory of Evolution True? Part 4.1

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If you can’t breed cows and sheep to be anything other than cows and sheep.How can you breed dinosaurs to be anything other than dinosaurs ?
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Of course you could breed cows and sheep to be something completely different - whales, maybe. It just takes a hundred thousand years or so.
Techno2000 said:
What kind of “environmental pressures” would have to happen on my ranch to trigger the dinosaurs to start evolving into birds ?
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You could start with a million years of cold weather.
Techno2000 said:
So, as long as I kept my ranch going, there would be no Birds in the world today?
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Eh? I don’t get that. There are already birds.
 
SSSsssshhhhh… don’t tell the kids… Big Bird isn’t real. I mean, a real bird.
 
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You gotta show me just how this will be done.
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Start slow. Start with breeding cows into something like a Hippopotamus, semi aquatic. Once you have the hippo, then aim for something like a Manatee, which is fully aquatic.

You need to provide water, and an environment where the water is more advantageous than the land. Maybe more plants in the water than on land, and a land predator that will not follow the cows into the water. Evolution selects beneficial mutations, so you need to provide an environment where mutations that help life in water are beneficial.

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But Bill Nye the non-science guy told me it is true. So I must believe it.
 
I was hoping hugh_farey could tell me.

In any case the answer is nonsensical.
 
Hmmm. How about: “Stop evolving! Just stop it!!”

Is that what you were thinking?
 
No, simply by not letting them experience so-called “environmental pressure” on my ranch, no random mutations would be triggered and no so-called transition to birds would occur.
 
I have read that the dinosaurs that evolved to birds are more aptly described as birds. Of course, birds who changed quite a lot.
 
The Pros and Cons of the Evolutionary Model of Creation
Evolution:
Pro: the transitioning of species demonstrates how the world passes away
Con: the perpetual transitioning of species makes the idea of the “kind” more difficult to conceptualize, but indeed still possible.
Pro: demonstrates the cruelty of this fallen world
Con: complicates the fall, as it implies death existed prior to the coming in of human beings. Of course, that would be a very literal opinion, as opposed to ie viewing the fall as the cause of evolution coming to be.
Pro: Demonstrates the Providence of God over so many processes over billions of years
Con: Creationism in a literal sense accomplishes the same
Pro: Easily accepted by many today as fact

I can see it being possible as an explanation.
 
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It would be nice if it were that simple, but some claims are outrageous and not verifiable. Just because humans share some genes with other organisms does not validate a Tree of Life as a certainty. This lineage is highly speculative. Very highly speculative.

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