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My theory relies on the validity of evolution. Evolution can be tested in a petri dish. The first step would involve growing a culture of bacteria. One would need to introduce an antibiotic to the culture. This will cause most of the bacteria to die. But a few will have the mutations necessary to survive. They will grow and become dominant. The first chicken would have evolved in a similar way, but over a longer period of time. A bird similar, but not the same as a chicken existed long ago. As the habitat changed, the bird would have had to adapt through natural selection. Characteristics advantageous to survival would have incrementally become dominant until the bird we now know as a chicken formed. Last edited by Steven; 09-24-04 at 06:53 PM. | |
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as a biologist..i totalllllllllllllly agree with steven | |
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birds are birds. it's even more realistic that you can get a chicken from a sparrow, because they're from the same species. it's exactly why we can create so many different dogs by inter-breeding them and messing with their genes, but to even expand on that issue, the dogs we domesticate cannot live out in the wild. they don't have the instincts to know different types of danger, etc. any time you mutate something you lose information, you never gain it. Inter-breeding is something humans do, but evolotion didn’t create all the species we have. If you get bacteria, you get bacteria. You don't get an animal from bacteria. | |
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![]() | as a christian..i totalllllllllllllly agree with revelationdream Guys, this thread had a purpose in the first place, which was to ask a one liner question and a one liner answer. Don't get me wrong, I love religion and some politics discussion (depending on how much I know) but this thread is not the right place. Please refrain from continuing the debate/argument and what not. Back to the simple game shall we? Quote:
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