So you don't believe in evolution. Then how do you explain turning wolves into every breed of dog?

Question

A long time ago man and wolves befriended each other. We breed them to our liking, and created every breed of dog alive today. How do you explain that without evolution?

A lot of these answers make sense. Dogs can change from wolf to cocker spaniel but not into a cat. That makes sense.

Answer 1

lol How do you know that happened? Did you see it?

That makes no sense. God created all the animals, every kind. Some dogs mate with other dogs to make a different dog. Look at people. White people mate with blacks, and they make different looking babies. They are still babies, just like the dogs are still dogs. A can not turn into B. The end!

Answer 2

I'm not going to take sides here as I have no personal interest in this endless discussion. I have heard both sides carefully, simultaneously skeptical but open to both, and personally, I think both the defenders of Evolutionism and those of Intelligent Design Creationism have valid points, but in the end they're both just theories, as fallible as any others. I don't really see the relevance of arguing it other than for personal curiosity on the subject matter. Does it really make much of a difference? Still, just to get to the point and answer this question, the mutation of wolves into all breeds of dogs that exist today is not a kind of evolution that Creationists would argue against, they mostly just oppose the idea of life evolving from non-life. It makes some sense to me, but then again I don't pretend to know anything in detail about how evolution was supposed to happen and I cannot dis-consider it as a valid possibility. No one has any irrefutable proof of either theory, and it all just seems to me like a big waste of time. Personally, and as contradictory as it might seem to my previous sentence, I'd like to see/hear/read someone defend something like a progressive mutational evolution from an original intelligent design or something like that, just for a change.

Answer 3

Have you not read how each reproduces after their "kind"?

Wolves and dogs are still the same species. Wolves did not evolve into cats.

There is a nearly limitless variation possible within a species.

If you believe in evolution, then explain how sex came about. Evolution works through cellular division to create offspring. You would "bud off" the next generation.

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Answer 4

All maximum all Christians have faith in Mircoevolution. Like people transforming into taller of time. There are 2 substantial motives for the final acceptance of this. It does no longer bypass against genesis in any way. Secondly this is been seen. people have recorded their ordinary hieght over the years. additionally there are a number of examples of inscets doing this. Macroevolution is evolution above the species point, so populations advance into 2 diverse species and so on. it is not as drastically held yet nonetheless many belive in it (i understand of a minimum of the Catholic Church believes in Thesitic Evolution and the huge Bang). This has no longer been seen before, somebody before stated the Fruit flies in usa and he's actual. additionally what you're speaking approximately with the Finches interior the Galapagoes Islands (off of ecuador, yet you have been close sufficient, you recognize extra effective than maximum, congrats) they're an occasion of MacroEvolution. specially it is not belived by some Christians because of the fact it is going against a literal 6 day intrepretation of genesis. Now so some distance as me, i think in Thesitic Evolution (and the huge Bang for that count number). i think that God used the huge Bang to create the universe then stepped back. permit the guidelines of phsyics take result to sort Earth the solar and the moon. Then he sat and watched as by some skill existence began (i think that it began w/o God's help yet i could be keen to settle for that God did it). Then evolution took result and created people after Billions of years. i think this because of the fact if God is al understanding he might desire to actual have understand if he placed this a lot power into the huge Bang he couuld get the earth and existence to sort.

Answer 5

Every breed in the dog "kind' is inter-fertile. This means they all came from the same dog ( or wolf, or dingo, or hound, and so on). There is no evolution here, only isolation and adaptation. This is what 'some' would erroneously refer to as "micro"-evolution. Thats just a "tricky" way to make evolution "seem" viable. "Real" evolution is when a cow gives birth to a whale, or a T-Rex gives birth to a mocking bird. This has never happened, and it will never happen. I don't care how many different dogs you can find-they are all still just dogs-and nothing more.

Answer 6

Those who ascribe to evolution will ever accept as answers that our planet and all life on it was possibly created by and directed by aliens from Altair 4. Endless questions-endless non-answers.

"likely", "may have", "possibly", "it is believed that". All sounds rather loaded with uncertainty to me. What and where is the "unobserved mechanism" which alledgedly drives this entity called "evolution"? Evolutionists have been looking for evidence of it for so long. When will it make its illustrious appearance? And evolution did not produce from breeding wolves, every breed of dog. Since when did breeding wolves with wolves produce anything but more wolves? Really.

Answer 7

I feel the need to slightly correct you.

A hypothesis with growing acceptance is that humans did not breed dogs. Humans at some point started discarding their excess food and other waste -- mostly spoiled meats, probably near tribal camps. Wolves, jackels, and foxes would probably scavenge that discarded food.

Over time, whichever animals were least afraid and most friendly toward humans would be selected-in for having better access to the rotten food that humans didn't want.

This better explains the dog selection process. It also explains why dogs are capable of eating almost anything, while wolves are not.

Answer 8

Breed of Dog? Is that really the best argument you could come up with? Breeding is not even micro-evolution. You know what never mind. Just try to do a little better.

Answer 9

I'm a total believer in evolution, but your premise is flawed. Evolution refers to how species change over time in response to their environment, e.g. how we got smarter and less hairy (changes that increased the likelihood of living long enough to pass our genes along to the next generation).

Dogs, however, aren't a product of wolves adapting to their environment, they're the product of deliberate selective breeding by humans. A better example would be how bacteria mutate to become resistant to different antibiotics.

Answer 10

Honestly, this is not an example of the type of evolution required for man from molecules evolution over millions of years.
Genetic information is LOST in breeding dogs not gained which is what is required for upward evolution from molecules to man. Try breeding dachsunds to get wolves - never going to happen.

Answer 11

I always enjoy Primoa's ability to not let facts or thinking get in the way of his answers.

but as to the other answers given, selective breeding is simply accelerated evolution - albeit when it is done to encourage some traits and discourage others, there is a intelligence element that minimizes the chance aspect of naturally occurring evolution.