Is the process of natural selection an evolutionary process?

Question

The DNA in plants and animals allows selective breeding to achieve desired results. Dogs are a good example of selective breeding. The DNA in all dogs has many regressive traits. A desired trait can be produced in dogs by selecting dogs with a particular trait to produce offspring with that trait. This specialized selective breeding can continue for generation after generation until a breed of dog is developed. This is the same as the "survival of the fittest" theory of the evolutionists. Many different types of dogs can be developed this way, but they can never develop a cat by selectively breeding dogs. Natural selection can never extend outside of the DNA limit. DNA cannot be changed into a new species by natural selection. Diamond back rattle snakes cannot be selectively bred until you have one with wings that jumps in the air and flies away. Evolution is impossible.

Answer 1

And they respond with a chorus of insults. You Evolutionists arent very good at proving a point.

Answer 2

Natural Selection doesn't depend on you or anyone else to decide what it selects. That's just silly. And Eskimo's have something that the rest of us don't. A study was done on how they handle the cold temps up there.... while outside in below 0 weather, they found that the Eskimo's faces stayed around 80 degrees... while a guy from New York was getting frost bite. So, um, where do you see that it didn't do something for the Eskimo's? They naturally stay warmer in colder climates than we do. And they have that color of skin from their ancestors... it was not necessary for it change the color of the skin. They don't ignore it... it's not a factor in this case. Only you are making it a factor here..... And natural selection has a lot more to do with every day life than you think. lol It can't create something in the DNA that wasn't there in the beginning? Who says the potential wasn't already there? You're speaking as if they know every little thing about DNA.... they don't. They're still studying it.... that's why we see certain theories die out and others hang on.... these things depend on new information. You're speaking as if you already have all of this information. If that is so, why are you here and not in a science lab or something doing something about it?

Answer 3

ah, I was thinking 'yes, this guy gets it!' and then halfway through you completely lose it.

Evolution and natural selection do not say a cat can turn into a dog or vice versa. But say that in nature somehow the hunting conditions for a dog during the daylight turn bad (some huge predator that also hunts dogs by day or something). Now dogs that prefer to hunt later in the day will have a higher survival rate. Eventually, ONLY the stock of dogs that hunt later in the evening/night will be left. Now since it is later in the evening/night the dogs with better night vision will do better; and eventually breed out the ones with worse night vision.

This strain of dogs will never turn into exactly a cat, but it can certainly acquire cat-like qualities. To expect a dog to turn into a cat is deliberately misunderstanding the mechanisms at work, which of course is what you are doing.

Answer 4

I was with you right up until you said evolution was impossible.

Suppose you continued selectively breeding dogs until those dogs were no longer able to breed with the rest of the species.

Answer 5

Evolution is quite possible. You can breed one thing into another, but you can breed things such that they become as different as cats and dogs. The dachshund and Irish wolf hound are not that different, yet. Snakes to flight, infeasible, since they lack limbs to fly, but breeding a small mammal to a flier or glider such as a bat or flying squirrel seems possible, though not practical.

Answer 6

1st of all you're confusing hundreds of years of artificial selection with millions of years of natural selection. 2nd you're assuming that evolution is goal oriented. Natural selection doesn't select the "best" it selects the best suited to a particular collection of selection pressures, e.g. in a cold climate having a lot of fur and a large body to reduce heat loss is advantagous but should there be a climate shift or migration to a warmer landscape these qualities would be a disadvantage. 3rd, there are more mechanisms by which evolution works than natural selection, i.e. genetic drift, mutation, non-random mating. Hope that helps.

Answer 7

But, we are talking at best THOUSANDS of years of selective breeding, not HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of years of natural selection.

Having said that, if I didn't know better, I'd probably question whether a Chihuahua and a Siberian Husky were the same species.

Answer 8

Since you resorted to a copied-and-pasted article instead of coming up with something on your own, I'm not even sure if you really understand anything. So there's no need for me, or anyone else, to explain it any great detail. You're wrong. Evolution is possible.

Answer 9

You moron.

Your first question can be answered very simply. Yes. Darwin talked about natural selection and not evolution, he mostly called it 'descent with modification'

Everything else you said is too dumb to warrant a refutation. You're deliberately misunderstanding because you want to believe your chosen sky-fairy waved his magic wand and made things happen.

Answer 10

Evolution is impossible that's funny. Why don't you put down that "creation science" handbook & come up with some real questions. Why are you wasting your time with that BS you seem to be an inteligent person. How do you manage to know so little about real science?

Answer 11

You just describe the workings of evolution then say it can't happen? Eveolution IS change within a species, Nobody is saying that it generates new species