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| Originally posted by Nicole+Sep 1 2003, 03:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Nicole @ Sep 1 2003, 03:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>But if evolution is true, why are genetic mutations today harmful and most times fatal? Evolution seems to be based on the theory that somehow we all lucked out and the mutations throughout history helped us adapt to our environment. I find this hard to believe.[/b] |
Yes, that is one of the limited numbers of arguments against evolution. [color=red]<run on sentence>[/color]The majority of mutations are very minute, but I guess the theory is that since a positive mutation would aid the organism in surviving (natural selection) and the trait would be more likely to be passed on, and then there's different populations of organisms who've developed different kind sof mutations, and once they interbreed you can end up with an organism so different that it can no longer breed with its species, hence becoming a new one.[color=red]</run on sentence>[/color]
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I just don't believe evolution can be accepted as a 'law' of science....[/quote]
You gotta use your head before making comments like that; no one (that I know of) is saying it is a law, that's why it's called a
theory. It's generally accepted as true, but it does have a few flaws preventing it from becoming a law.