Many intelligent design advocates reject "macroevolution" but believe in "microevolution". That is, they accept that soot on a tree causes select for black pepper moths over white pepper moths, but deny that species ever increase in complexity over time.
(I've never asked them what they think about the number of Hox genes a zebrafish possesses. I really want to! Or about polyploidy.)
The idea is that God created some dogs and some horses and some fish and whatever, and they "reproduced according to their kind" and differentiated into all the varieties of fish and bird and whatever we have today, but fish didn't evolve into birds.
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Date: 2005-11-01 07:04 pm (UTC)From:(I've never asked them what they think about the number of Hox genes a zebrafish possesses. I really want to! Or about polyploidy.)
The idea is that God created some dogs and some horses and some fish and whatever, and they "reproduced according to their kind" and differentiated into all the varieties of fish and bird and whatever we have today, but fish didn't evolve into birds.
They probably want their vaccine. :)