In a message dated 12/7/2004 10:42:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu> writes:
>Dog breeding goes back thousands of years. Evolution deals with millions or billions of years. Can we do better than dogs!
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>Moorad
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Evolution is a a painfully slow process, not an intrinsic state of matter like you can test in physics. Dogs have been bred (artificially selected) long enough to have displayed the tremendous variety that evolution is capable of. DNA evidence is valid in court. The human genome has been mapped. Parents are genetically tested to be sure they are not carrying deleterious genes before they get married. We now have drug cocktails for AIDS to counter the quick mutation of the AIDS virus. All of these advances are possible because we understand the genetic structure that is the very agent that supports the processes of evolution, yet you say, evolution need a "test."
rich
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