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Today at the Design of Life blog – Mustangs vs. breed horses
| March 19, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
There has been a Darwinian vs. human-directed evolution experiment running in North America for centuries. It is the horse.
That is, the mustang vs. humanly directed horse breeds. What did natural selection do? What did intelligent design (specified complexity) do?
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Yes, Atom, I think you are right on this one. This seems to be the heart of Behe’s case in “The Edge…” We do see viruses evolve some, we see bacteria evolve a little bit. However, we don’t see in either the kind of change necessary to manage the blood-pressure issues in the giraffe. We don’t see the kind of changes necessary to produce the bovine digestive system. We don’t come close to seeing the kind of changes that are required to turn a four-legged beast into a whale.
Evolution by natural means happens. The case for evolution by natural means being adequate to explain the last 60 million years of mammal history (at the end of the era of dinosaurs, mammals existed but had very little variety) is sketchy to say the least.
Doesn’t Behe say in The Edge of Evolution that naturalistic evolution only has the power to distort the original design?
Or something like that?