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What fulfils the function of "preservation" - within Evolutionary theory?

What about Evolution, would you preserve?

  • Mutation.

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  • Adaptation.

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  • Familiarity.

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  • Difference.

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  • Credulity.

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  • Distance.

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  • Slowness (mitigation of perceived "speed").

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  • Theory.

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Shemjaza

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Why not the DNA of more distant ancestors? How far back does the preservation go, if what you are saying about the innocence of the young is true?
Yes, everyone carries traces or their ancestors. Filtered through all the generations inbetween.
 
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Why not the DNA of more distant ancestors? How far back does the preservation go, if what you are saying about the innocence of the young is true?
Some parts of the genome are essential to the most basic processes of life, so are 'highly conserved', meaning that they are found in most or all living things, because life is not possible without them.

The ubiquity of highly conserved genetic code and the distribution of differences in the less highly conserved code in various creatures is one way to determine their relationships in the tree of life, and provides strong evidence of common ancestry.
 
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You are so close to grasping the concept but then you absolutely fail in your own thinking. Evolution doesn't care if you want to be evolved or not, because biology doesn't care. Nature doesn't care. Evolution happens whether you want it to or not. The only way to stop evolution happening is to just not exist. That really is the only way to not be affected by evolution.

Just jumping back for a minute, I want the record to show that it has been stated many times that only populations evolve, but somehow that having a population in mind "is irrelevant", but without any mechanism demonstrated to make it irrelevant.

It's not having populations in mind that is irrelevant. It's your daft comments about evolution and populations that are irrelevant.
 
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I call that "design of ancestors".

You call it "chance of ancestors"?

Not sure where to go from here?
Except I don't call it "chance of ancestors", because that's silly.

We know how reproduction works, we know how genetic inheritance works and there's no evidence for design in the process.
 
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Except I don't call it "chance of ancestors", because that's silly.

We know how reproduction works, we know how genetic inheritance works and there's no evidence for design in the process.

You say while referring to design, to make your point.

"Chance of ancestors"... I wonder, is the greatest possible chance of ancestors different, if survival is a given?
 
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You say while referring to design, to make your point.

No. I didn't.

There isn't design or agency in the process of reproduction. The formation of a new genetic structure at conception is a chemical process.

"Chance of ancestors"... I wonder, is the greatest possible chance of ancestors different, if survival is a given?

But survival is not a given and the chance of ones ancestors being different is zero. Nothing we do can change past events.
 
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