Contender's Edge (@ContendersEdge)

@[email protected] @CynicalBroadcast Even if zeroes are added to my bank account (which would be nice), the zeroes are still going to be dollars. They are not going to be Yen, Euros, Pesos, Marks, or any other currency except U.S. dollars unless the dollar loses its value and we have to switch to a currency with a much higher and more stable value. And in order to get to the bank from my house, there is a specific set of direction and a route that I must follow, but change the directions in any way, shape, or fashion, and I might end up at any other place but the bank. In the same sense, if a genetic blue print only allows for horses to reproduce horses or people to reproduce people, that is all you are going to get. Any attempt to change that information to go any direction other than what it was specifically instructed to carry out may only result in the extinction of the species instead of producing new ones. As for the so called vestigial hind limbs in whales, it is now believed that they do serve a purpose and seem to be more associated with one gender than another, but I am not sure which; if I remember correctly, the so called vestigial hind limbs have been found in males rather than females. As for seals, they are not scientifically considered to be a transitional life-form, even by evolutionary standards. And it is not that I am locked into evolution happening instantaneously. It is that there would have to be undeniable proof of the amoeba to man theory, but such evidence does not exist nor can it be demonstrated as being fact. There is, however, a school of evolutionary thought that does adhere to the philosophy that evolution can happen quite rapidly, even instantaneously in some cases and it is called "Punctuated-Equilibrium" of which the late Stephen Jay Gould was a major proponent. It was proposed to describe the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record. The gradualist camp would claim that such phenomena is biologically impossible while the punctual equilibrium camp would say that there is no paleontological evidence for slow gradual biological processes. The Young Earth Creationist would say that they are both right: There is no fossil evidence for slow gradual processes, (the many that have been proposed have either been hoaxes, based on scant fragments, or not really transitional at all) nor is it biologically possible for a cat to give birth to a dog or a dog to give birth to a horse.