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I dreamt all night I was a carburetor
and when I woke up I was exhausted.
Created on 2003-12-28 23:08:56 (#1719457), last updated 2005-05-13
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Basic Info| Name: | Kristina |
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| Birthdate: | 09-08 |
| Location: | Warr Acres, Oklahoma, United States |
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Evolution or Creationism?
There were some who thought that God created each kind of domestic animal and plant separately; they argued "for every variety being an aboriginal creation." But Darwin knew from reading the breeders' treatises that the power lay with the breeders themselves. They call their secret the power of "picking," or "selection." Picking the most prolific hen in the chicken coop, the fleetest horse in the field, or the best rose in the garden, over and over again, according to one treatise that Darwin read, "enables the agriculturalist, not only to modify the character of his flock, but to change it altogether. It is the magician's wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases." The results were like Creation itself. One British lord, praising the work that breeders had done with sheep, wrote, "It would seem as if they had chalked out upon a wall a form perfect in itself, and then had given it existence." Since breeders called the art of choosing "selection," they called any changes in a breed that did not take place because of their conscious efforts-all of the casual, frustrating, and inexplicable changes in their flocks and herds behind their backs-"natural selection."-Weiner
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