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All of that is completely irrelevant to evolution and selection pressures.This is where I have to take you to task (God help me):
Believers keep the words of Jesus. If what you are saying is true: certain words would be appropriate to one species and (depending on the selection pressures and how each responds to them) other words would be appropriate to the other (species). Say for example that one of the selection pressures was response to the wind and another selection pressure was response to the sun - if Jesus spoke about the wind in one case (which He did) and spoke about the Sun in another case (which He did): would one species remember what was said about the wind and another remember what was said about the Sun?
Let's just establish that, for the time being - I don't want to make it more complicated than it needs to be... (suffice it to say, I do not merely mean "remembering words, is all Creationists think survival takes")
Words aren't selection pressures.
The evolution of species has nothing to do with beliefs or choices of individuals, it's about genetic variation across the whole population over multiple generations.
What gets me, is that there are lions and tigers and hyenas in Evolution, but Evolution is not "lead", by anything (not lead by lions, not leads by tigers, not lead by a pack of hyenas working together) - just a random story of pressure, such that "everything is asked, but not everything is done"?
Evolution is a physical process that occurs to species based on statistical success of traits over generations.
It isn't led by anything.
I've come to realise, part of the problem with my asking for accountability in "Evolution" - as pertains to the choice it gives you - is that the "choice" "hurts".
People say "the truth hurts" like it's nothing, but actually the choice hurts.
I'm not sure what you want to make of that, but if the choice remains the same choice, at least we might be able to reconcile ourselves to it, in the end?
Evolution isn't a result of choice.
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