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Thread #83492 Message #1536428
Posted By: John Hardly
06-Aug-05 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Intelpidity Design
Subject: RE: BS: Intelpidity Design
...and they are not empirically provable (at least at this point), and they are necessary advancements in complexity that are demanded before necessary advancements in complexity before necessary advancements in complexity -- all taking place in an interdependant chain of events wherein one cannot happen before another without lacking the environment being in place to sustain the changes.
And again, the moth thingy doesn't work -- it did not alter genetically. The latter moths were exactly the same moths genetically as the former moths -- all that change was the manifestation of color -- a manifestation that was present in ALL the moths, dark and light. When the lighter ones died off because the were no longer camoflauged against the now darkening buildings, only the darker moths survived (were not eaten) so darker moths bred with darker moths, making darker progeny -- but the progeny was still genetically identical -- it was not a new species. The survival did not require the moth to "adjust" genetically to the changing environment. If it had needed to adjust genetically in order to survive, it would not have survived. It only survived because it already had the possiblity to be either dark or light. That's no different than the fact that we can be blonde, brunette, redhead. If we needed to change to survive, we could either die our hair or breed accordingly.