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Old 08-04-2003, 10:35 PM   #11
Insidious Rex
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Further discussion of agriculture as a population source

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And the seed-bearing grassy type thing REMAINED a seed-bearing grassy type thing. It did NOT turn into an oak tree or a marigold.
It went from being grass to being corn stalks. Not grass to different grass. If you had grown 20 times your size and completely different body structures inside and out so much so that you would be essentially unrecognizable to beings that shared your original form then wouldn’t you say that’s significant change? Especially if all that occurred in a few short thousand years. Imagine down what meandering paths such changes would take you after millions of year.

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and also from what I've read, corn would NOT have survived natural selection, because the changes involved were NOT advantageous to the corn, just to the humans that like to eat corn!
they were obviously advantageous to the corn because the corn survived and thrived did it not? Ever heard of a symbiotic relationship? Whos really in control here? The corn or humans? Id say the corn has a pretty good deal going. Humans meticulously care for each plant. Fertilize and water them. And propagate their genes by actively causing them to reproduce. What you call limited guided development I call proof that evolution doesn’t care who is intelligent and who is a vegetable (literally). ALL it does is allow organisms to survive by having characteristics that are beneficial to their particular environments. Pull back from where you stand and look at the much broader picture here. Your vision is way too short sighted. Evolution is simply about survival. Doesn’t matter if you call that survival “artificially induced” or not. Its just survival. And the corn wins. And so do we.
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