can you control evolution

"Dale Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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If you can control evolution how and if not then why
answer me !!!

You cannot control "natural selection" since by definition
this is by non-human agency.

However humans can apply artificial selection - for instance
breeding more and more vicious dogs for use in fighting, or
more and more tranquil animals for use as lapdogs, longer
ones for use as sausage dogs, tastier and tastier ones for
use in Chinese cooking.

There are limits - for instnace no amount of artifical
selection will produce an invisible dog, because of
fundamental physical constraints, nor will you produce a
winged dog, because the variation simply isn't there to
select. Some day we may learn how to engineer the genome to
produce things like winged dogs, but at the moment we are
restricted to much simpler modifications.

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If you can control evolution how and if not then why
answer me !!!

Dale

Yes, and as a matter of fact, farmers have been doing it for
centuries.

It's achieved through a process known as artificial
selection...where desired characters are selected for.

Keith

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"Dale Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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If you can control evolution how and if not then why
answer me !!!

You cannot control "natural selection" since by definition
this is by non-human agency.

Humanity is not part of nature?

You must have been reading too much Darwin ;-)
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You cannot control "natural selection" since by
definition this is by non-human agency.

Humanity is not part of nature?

Do you regard free will as natural or supernatural?

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You cannot control "natural selection" since by
definition this is by non-human agency.

Humanity is not part of nature?

Do you regard free will as natural or supernatural?

I'm afraid I tend to leave debates about "free will"
to others.
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