Samira wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Smasharoo wrote:
Evolution is not a fact
Nah it's a fact. Let's not confuse people. Evolution through random mutation and natural selection of preferential genes is a fact. Happens all the time, is happening now, not an open question.
Nah it's a fact. Let's not confuse people. Evolution through random mutation and natural selection of preferential genes is a fact. Happens all the time, is happening now, not an open question.
Ok, I can go with that - evolving the verb, is taking place all the time. Evolution the noun is a theory explaining why some birds have long beaks and humans have a tailbone, etc etc.
Nothing explains Debalic.
Evolution is not a verb, and there is no difference in the two anyway.
Some mutations are adaptive. Some are maladaptive. Some are neutral. When mutations are adaptive such that the lucky critters affected are more prone to reproduce and pass on their genes, we call it evolution.
What some people insist on calling macroevolution as opposed to the politically acceptable microevolution (after all, we know flu viruses mutate constantly, so there's no arguing against that one) is simply short sightedness. They refuse, or are perhaps intellectually unable, to take the long view.
Sorry for my grammatical incorrectness.
Evolution is a theory.