Richard Dawkins Interview - Sky News
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To me we can look at the variety of dog species that we have produced via un-natural selection in a VERY short period of time - the concept that natural selection can produce such variation we see over millions of years seems perfectly plausible.
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@Silversong88 Sorry - thought you were a creationist. A terrible slur on your character, I know, so forgive me :)
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@Ellie8969 Sorry if I didn't come across clearly, I agree with you. Natural selection is consequential, not random. But then again, mutations are also consequential within a certain degree of hindsight
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@Silversong88 Natural selection is not random - the mutations that drive natural selection are.
Mutations can be beneficial, disadvantageous or neutral. Clearly a beneficial mutation confers advantage which allows the organism a better chance of survival which leads to it passing on the beneficial gene.
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random/non random
nature selects (with no consciousness of doing it of course) the genes that aids an organisms survival
A dark colour moth on a dark tree will not be spotted by predators a lighter moth with less pigment will be. The pigmented moth will become dominant as that will survive to reproduce. A non random process. Dark tree – random. Gene shuffling recombination Mutation causing less/ more pigment – random.
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@thelogster Who said it started by a random process? The "randomess" of initiation is simply a way of denoting a lack of understanding or information. Once it is understood it is random no more..
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"natural selection is a non random process", and yet it is initiated by a random process, so how is natural selection not a random process again ??
Adam Boulton is unusual in the Sky news world.
He's intelligent, non judgemental, educated and clearly a free thinking atheist.
I wonder what his relationship with the fool Eamonn Holmes is like?
kts68 4 months ago 65
@Picklezorz more like religion is ignorant and disrepectful towards him lol
vikingsbeard 3 months ago 34