The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

Sigfried: Well, then what you encounter is "Well well well MICROevolution is possible, but not MACROevolution! Have you ever seen a dog give birth to a cat???"

No, and no one has ever said that is something they would anticipate happening. Its all strawmen.

Human beings have evolved over time as well. We'll even ignore vestigial organs like the appendix (which exists to assist in the digestation of grass, a function no longer being served and thus making it useless and nothing more than a ticking bomb we all carry) and I'll point out people who are "lactose intolerant". This is actually the default state we were in at one point. People who are able to drink milk after the age where you are typically weened off of it are passing down a genetic mutation that happened. People had no reason to be able to digest milk beyond their infantile years (like most animals) because they had no way to access it after their mothers weened them off and finished producing it. In the years of the human race learning to settle down and farm we began finding uses for it (for everything from making cheese to drinking or giving to our young). This forced our bodies to adapt over time whereas those without this trait will suffer fierce diarrhea and be unable to properly digest it.

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2..._milk.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6397001.stm

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/how_we_evolve/