What do you think of evolution? @Yotta

What, you mean, what do I think about factual reality? It exists

The evidence for evolution is beyond question at this point

One of the few things we do know from genetics is that evolution is built into the system

However, Darwin's version was highly incomplete

It's an outcome

Jf already answered the mixed children question

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Mendel should have gotten credit for evolution, not Darwin...Mendel did actual work on the topic, Darwin presented a dog breeding chart

The pea guy ?

(Mendel is the father of genetics)

@Yotta you heard of Darwin devolves? Criticizes Darwin’s theory

Yes

Doesn’t deny evolution but questions the mechanisms I guess

Darwin's theory is obviously true, natural selection happens, but thinking that is the source of all speciation is nonsense

There are many selective pressures*

And, more importantly, those pressures* must act upon already existing genetic material

Otherwise, you cannot select

Ya he doesn’t deny adaptation to the environment but says it can’t account for the complexity that we see

behold degenerates https://twitter.com/slithrael/status/1215886172360077313?s=20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Darwin_Got_Wrong

Look at this buch

I already have a really long reading list ahead of me...but, you are free to summarize 🙂

Much of adaptation is done through breaking existing mechanisms also. To have a new functional mutation happen is extremely unlikely and to have multiple dependent ones is astronomically small

Mutation is not accidental...genetics proves that

There's a bunch of authors discrediting Darwin

Gametes "randomize" depending on a few factors

Adaptations that we have actually seen are just breaking of existing functionality

Stable environments results in fewer 'randomizations'...while stressful environments result in very diverse gametes

Gametes are germ cells... i.e. for sexual reproduction

Yes the book uses that example

Et al

Well, if the books talks about that, good, because that is what we know, as of now

I’m not a biology expert, not my field, but I find it interesting

I don’t know enough to criticize the ideas tbh

And, it is good you are honest enough to admit that, Smoke

Your dox @Chawosaurian

Nothing more foolish than a person that claims to know things they do not...because, they do not know it and now they have made it much more difficult for themselves to ever know it

What I am confident in is probably our overconfidence in understanding the universe