The Like/Hate Thread

[Sigfried Hunin]

it's the only thing we have that elevates discussion of long-term evolutionary theory above pure philosophy.

I can actually say that we humans have experienced evolution, and noticed its effects, since the very birth of man.

We have domesticated animals. We have bred into these animals the traits that we LIKE. More meat, more milk, dog have been bred into a thousand different forms since their predecessors, the wolf. How different is a shiatsu from a timber wolf?

Now, this breeding is artificial, taking the traits we like and only allowing the traits we like being allowed to be passed down. The genetic traits have been hand picked by people, but that doesn't mean it doesn't illustrate my point.

Nature will, on its very lonesome, kill animals that have traits weakly adapted to their surroundings. It just happens MUCH SLOWER. Whereas, mama nature can't bend don't scoop up EVERY FISH that doesn't give live birth, but slowly groom them out by those who do not having a higher chance of dying before reproductive age. This means they have less of a chance of passing their genes down, and eventually, after many generations of the live birth being more successful, the majority of the fish will now give live birth because the other ones are too dead to breed.

I think its ridiculous that people can argue that evolution hasn't been witnessed when we force it upon creatures every fucking day on farms and dog shows.