Premarital Sex

applicannot
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:27:51 +0000

Well, for the record, I have looked up the science:

Before: Population contains both individuals posessing the trait of resistance to antibiotics, and individuals not possesing it.

After: Individuals lacking said trait die, leaving only the ones with resistance.



That doesn’t make a species more or less complex; it just makes a species more or less varied. Variety =/= complexity. There is remarkably little variety in the function of the human body, all around the world. Does that mean we are not complex organisms? Maybe complexity just isn’t the concept you are looking for.



You seem to think that entirely new alleles are introduced, at a rate fast enough to turn reptiles into birds and proto-rats into humans within about 60 million years. The only way new alleles can enter the gene pool is if individuals change.



No, alleles can be a) changed drastically and b) changed in some ways, as outlined by fairy_dream’s link. So yes, an individual “changes” in that it is not identical to its parent. In that sense, the individual has “changed.”



According to wikipedia, Carbon Dating is only accutate up to about 50-60,000 supposed years. That’s to recent to be of much use in evolutionary research. just making sure you know what your side says on that issue.



That’s precisely why I said:
“Yes, among many other tools.”