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Originally Posted by Windguy
I see a common misunderstanding here. First off, Darwin didn’t propose that evolution exists. People could see the evidence of it and then he came up with an explanation (Natural Selection) of why it happens.
Evidence of evolution is all around. Viruses/bacteria mutate. Our abuse of antibiotics has resulted in super bugs because those bugs that have a slightly better resistance are the ones that survive and pass on their genes. The weak ones die and their line disappears. That’s natural selection. This is what we teach in schools.
People breed animals and plants to optimize them for their use. Does your pet “fur baby” look anything like a wolf? No, it has evolved through what people might consider unnatural selection (evolution directed by humans).
Darwin didn’t propose a theory of evolution but a theory of its cause. Evolution is a fact—not a theory.
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I believe that birds are really dinosaurs. That sort of twists the concept of what a species is.