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Originally Posted by yodachoda
Aaron, I'm done talking to you. You don't seem to understand evolution.
You're welcome to say that. But I think by looking carefully at your words, you probably understand a trivialized form of it.
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It seems like your understanding of it wasn't more than "one species suddenly gives birth to new species!".
Interesting. I wonder if you have the ability to point to anything that actually supports your position.
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Then, after reading my posts you look up details on evolution in order to nitpick my posts and pretend you know what you're talking about. And that's all you've been doing. Nitpicking.
You said: "That's it. That's evolution." But upon inspection, it seems very clear that that's not it, and that's not evolution. Or at least, it's not quite the mindless thing that you are trying to make it out to be.
I took the definition you presented as "there's a correct definition of evolution and that's it" and then proceeded to ask about the consequences of that definition.
I took a very simple example, which you rejected because one bacterium isn't a "population." Forget the fact that it stood as a clear example that stands in refutation of your initial characterization of evolution, which was a change in "earth's gene pool."
Fine, so I gave you another example with lots of bacteria, where we changed the frequency of the traits in the population, but maintained a constant genetic form. I pointed out that the definitions do not appear to give a consistent sense of the concept of evolution. According to the definition that talks about changing frequency, it's evolution. Yet somehow, there's a very clear sense in which having the exact same bacteria over and over again really doesn't seem like evolution.
The fact of the matter is that you have not engaged in a single substantive argument, and instead tried to simply bluster your way through the obviousness of evolution without getting any of the details right.
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You really think I was thinking carefully about the numbers 10 million or 100 million in my last post? No...
I don't think you thought carefully about any of your posts, really. It looks like you've ranted and rambled from beginning to end.