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carlos11 (2014-06-06 14:09:15)Enlighten us, fool.
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carlos11 (2014-06-06 22:42:39)^This.
No one wins. Oh tasty natural fruit beverage, if you insist we are the product of an intentional design, then it was aliens and nothing else.
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TREEhugger101 (2014-06-07 00:01:23)A lot is not one word. I can't believe that such smart people would still make the utterly stupid mistake of writing "alot".
That's all I have to say here.
carlos11 (2014-06-07 01:37:44)Unless, Jesus was an alien? It all make sense now.
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ConnorRonnoc (2014-06-07 22:27:38)@snapapple Neither, it's just the fact that I simply couldn't care less. I just can't be bothered to post a full-blown explanation on Christianity and Evolution. Those things are both centred around the past. Focus on the present. Focus on what's really important.
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Mephistopheles (2014-06-08 02:28:11)Maybe your tablet should have evolved better to handle the meaty fingers of plebs like you.
Or maybe your ancestors years and years from now will develop tiny tablet fingers.
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TREEhugger101 (2014-06-09 17:39:29)No, Fluxer's right. Natural selection is the cause.
Let's say some mice live in a rocky area. The terrain is mostly gray and black. There are some white, brown, and black mice. White and brown are more visible among black rock, while black mice don't get caught.
Soon, there are only black mice, because they breed and make another generation again and again.
Junaid (2014-06-09 19:52:34)^
TREEhugger's right. Natural selection can account for the leaf insect's ability to camouflage with the leaf.
Natural selection essentially states that organisms with successive traits will live long enough to reproduce and pass on their genes to future generations. This could imply that at one point in the leaf insect's past, it didn't have the ability to blend in with its environment, however, through the randomization of genes, either through the process of sexual reproduction or mutation (or both), the insect managed to obtain the trait. This would cause variety among the leaf insect specie and would also give the individuals with the gene a higher rate of survival. Overtime the other leaf insects would be less successful at being able to survive and will eventually be wiped out leaving new generations to carry the leaf-disguising characteristic.
Something like this is not impossible, especially if you consider the time scale in which the process of evolution has been occurring. (Approx 3 billion years)
"No matter how many millions of years an organism could have been around, you know that mutations and genetic variation couldn't create this design."
You're right about genetic variation being a random process, but evolution itself is not random. The survival and reproductive success of an individual is related to its traits in its environment; it is this process of natural selection that in essence 'chooses' the most successful organism to survive based on what it can do.
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Some people here are always unclear in their intentions and just want to look intelligent.
I stopped taking it seriously once I saw "alot".
And honestly, it's not that far fetched that an insect could have a mutation in pigment and thorax/abdomen shape.
Birds know what to look for from birth, if the insect lost all obvious cues as prey, there's a very good chance that the bird wouldn't go for these insects. And what if these mutations came off as a more desirable trait in mates.
I feel like I had to reiterate what your first point was, I don't know why you just changed your views in the case of a more specialized species. Just take what you said before and apply it.
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