O whoop-de-doo! Lets not confine evolve-- evolution to one meaning. It has many, if the dictionaries are to be believed, from its first use in 1622. Define your usage. A few variations from the Merriam Webster Collegiate (A lot more in the OED: - One of a set of prescribed movements - a process of change in a certain direction. Unfolding. -The action of a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse, to a higher more complex or better state. -A process of gradual and relatively peaceful social, political, economic advance... -The historical development of a biological group.... - meanings related to phylogeny. Modifications, etc. I find such discussions fruitless. Having spent my working life as a research paleontologist-paleoecologist with an oil company laboratory, determining ages of strata and their environment from the changes in the organisms through time, and running up against "belief" from time to time, I will no longer argue whether one particular person's dunghill is better or worse than another's.
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