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You want evolution to show you Big huge steps like miracles in the bible or something... Evolution deals with tiny tiny steps so small and elegant. Its like watching grass grow.
You're wrong. Every structure has been added through random mutation and natural selection. I'm using creationist methods of showing information here.
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well why don't you show me the mutations.....(for example, the green algae thing does not involve a mutation at all, from what I remember.)....and also, most of those do not involve structures....for example, "the ability to digest" is not a structure....neither is the "ability of e. coli to hydolizye galactosylarabinose....neither is the "adaptation of yeast"...but show me the papers on the others.
Here, knock yourself out...
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But from what others are saying, you won't believe it anyway.
What I wonder is this. If someone doesn't believe in evolution, how can they explain that we carry the genetic code for a tail?
the so called tail in human babys has a purpose in that stage of its life ,it is an attchment for holding muscles together, to say its a remnant tail is nothing but forced interpretation, weak argument
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