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Originally Posted by jasonW
but what do people think evolution is? of course it has to do with the way peoples eating habits and the climats have changed, but that is part of Darwin's theory too,the more the they discovered the more the brain changed , and the more intelligent , the more they discovered new ways of hunting,eating...and so on.That is evolution.
The genes follow all this, a simple example if cut off the tail of a cat, and do so for 2 or 3 generations, now you have a fairly good change to see the kitten of the 4th generation be born with a shorter or hardly existing tail and 2 or 3 generations after , the kitten to come probably won't even have one.
Now take the example of 2 polish parents with fair skin having kids, let them emigrate to a hot climatical country,after a few generations you will see darker skinned kids be born because generation after generation the genes will of modified themselves to get use to the environment...
yes I totaly agree with Darwin and what I read about "evolution' confirms me into it.
After everyone is open to believe his own theory..
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Darwinian evolution suggests a genetic change. If there is no gene change, then all we see is an adaptive trait that exists within the existing genome. (e.g. human genes can support a variet of skin tones without expressing a gene change, but a gene change would definitely be necessary for humans to sprout feathers as an adaptive trait). Eating and drinking theoretically has an effect, but we don't see a genome change due to diet (at least we haven't yet). For example, the Inuit (Eskimos) traditionally have a nearly 100% meat diet. They went for generations without a green leafy vegetable, yet we don't see a variation in the genome between them and the people of India (largely vegetarian).
Your example of the kittens doesn't apply in real life (nature). Example: Nearly every Cocker Spaniel bred in the U.S. has their tail bobbed (and we've seen that for generations), but newborn Cocker Spaniels have full tails. Amputating an appendage doesn't change the genome of the parent, so offspring will have the genome to include the appendage that was amputated.
Evolution discusses a genome change, not just a physical change. Taller or shorter is physical. We don't see the genome changed in taller or shorter people, those traits are simply variations that exist within the given genome. Yes, genes can be changed in a lab for this purpose, but that isn't evolution. Evolution is this type of change occurring spontaneously and naturally. Evolutionists tells us that we won't likely see such a change in our lifetime because the change is gradual requiring thousands, if not millions of generations. Neat thing, that. We're supposed to believe that it happens over millions of years, so evolutionists don't need to provide any reproducable, falsifiable experiments (reproducable, falsifiable experiments are a basic cornerstone of any scientific process, except apparently evolution). This sounds more like faith than science to me (I don't have a problem with evolution as a faith, as long as it is acknowledged as such).
-- Jeff