My dad has an officially tested IQ of 146 and believes evolution is a lie. Being smart often doesn't make you right, it mostly makes you more effective at believing what you believe.
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The reasoning is that it's the same "kind." There can be differences within a "kind" of animal, but two animals of the same kind could never breed and evolve a new species.
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“kind” of animal and “species” are essentially arbitrary man-made distinctions. You can draw lines around fertile offspring but that doesn’t really change anything
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Breeding is artificial, it’s not out of the necessity of pure survival in the wild. Evolution happened over millions of years, dog breeding much much less. Breeding is ‘losing’ information indeed. Evolution is learning different information.
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… to efficiently adapt.
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mutations tho
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A lot of dog breeding is isolating recessive traits sure, but also much of it (and most of evolution) is mutation, which is NEW traits
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Breeding studies give the startling result (lots done here at Edinburgh) that you can select, doubling or halving a trait, then reverse selection and (((for quant traits studied) go back to the original!! (PS: You should find out your dads precise position).
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Fun fact, these two chickens are the same age to the day, from the same stock, reared in the same environment: Just selected for growth for ~ 50 yearspic.twitter.com/ZOg736djKr
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