Over on Uncommon Descent, one of the IDiots (Granville Sewell) confesses his ignorance and asks for help [Jean Rostand on Evolution].It is becoming harder and harder to find Darwinists willing to make a serious attempt to defend their theory, and explain how it could account for the complexity of life, they are almost entirely in attack mode. Their three main arguments are 1) ID is not science 2) ID is not science and 3) ID is not science. I believe ID is science, but I can understand the concern many have about it being taught in science classrooms, so I would like to propose a compromise. How about we simply "have the courage to recognise that we know nothing of the mechanism" of evolution, and leave it at that? Each student can decide for himself/herself what the most likely explanation might be.Maybe I can help. I'm not a Darwinist but I do know a thing or two about the important mechanisms of evolution.
In natural selection the frequency of an allele increases in the population because the presence of the allele confers a selective advantage on the individual who carries it. This individual will survive and reproduce more frequently than individuals possessing the other allele of the gene in question. Over many generations the beneficial allele has a higher than normal probability of becoming fixed in the population
In random genetic drift an allele will increase in frequency due to chance alone and not because it confers a selective benefit. In most cases the allele will be nearly neutral with respect to its phenotype. Over a long period of time, these non-selected alleles will become fixed relative to other similar alleles in the genome.
There are many other things that you need to learn about evolution, Granville, but these two important concepts will do for now. Good descriptions of these mechanisms are easy to find on the internet. I'm surprised that you've never heard of them before. I guess that's why you're an IDiot.
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