You are hereDarwin Day fun: A layman tries to explain evolution by natural selection / Reply to comment
Because your religion is wrong.
Get updates
Render unto Caesar
Godspeak
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.
Spread the Gospel
Spake the people
-
Thanks for the tip. I've nixed some false quotations in the past, and am happy to remove any...
-
Ben Franklin never said that...another of the many fake quotes circulating on the internet....
-
Thank you for the comments. Yes, the passivity and respect you mention are part of the special...
-
Indeed. It cracks me up when an Abrahamic fundamentalist calls atheists amoral, nihilistic, and...
-
This Christians' rhetorical questions translate into those lame accusations we hear from...
Hymn book
If I may toot my own shofar, a few of the posts I like best:
Sounds mostly ok with me. You're correct to suspect that some (even legitimate evolutionary biologists) would balk at point #5. Natural selection is the primary mechanism in evolution, but it's not the only one. Genetic drift, a non-NS type mechanism, can produce new traits. Neutral evolution can maintain traits that are no longer adaptive, as long as they're not currently mal-adaptive (that is, neutral or invisible to NS). Other traits can evolve for one use but co-opted for another use (exaptation/co-option). Sexual selection, in so far as it is distinct from NS, sometimes works against NS.