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Subject: Hey, cool--a link to a Chick tract--

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One-eyed Jack

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Date Posted: 17:08:35 08/13/04 Fri
In reply to: Pastor Jeremy Moorao 's message, "Is this your uncle?" on 10:37:53 08/08/04 Sun

--the most laughable of the late 20th-century know-nothings.

Eat any bread lately, Pastor?

Then you're tasted the results of successful artificial evolution.

Wear cotton drawers?

Cotton has been extensively developed using the techniques of artificial evolution, and modern Egyptian long staple cottons would not exist if the mechanisms of evolution didn't work.

Men have been using the mechanics of evolution--genetic variablity and selection of breeding stock--to develop Egyptian long staple cottons for a bit less than 200 years:

"The evolution of ELS cottons began in 1825 when Sea Island cotton was brought into Egypt and crossed with a tree cotton named Jumel. The crossing of Jumel and Sea Island resulted in the development of Ashmouni in about 1860. The next several Egyptian cultivars were derived either by selecting within Ashmouni or from crosses of Ashmouni and Sea Island. The successful utilization of inbreeding between the years 1910 and 1940 led to the gradual development of Egyptian cottons that could compete with the quality of Sea Island."

Agricultural crop breeding is simply artificial evolution; the process used is no different from natural evolution except that man selects which organisms reproduce instead of letting natural selection do it.

To claim that evolution is impossible is a position of extreme silliness: the evidence of mankinds longest and most successful biological experiment is all around us, and the evidence shows that the mechanisms of evolution work very well indeed.

Pastor, the wine (or grape juice) you use in your rituals comes from grapes that historical breeding records show are the result of artificial evolution. The varieties of grape produced by artificial evolution are strikingly different from each other:

...and the process used is, once again, exactly equivalent to natural evolution: selection of breeding stock to take advantage of genetic variablity.

So next time you take sacrament, Pastor, remember that you are actually tasting the results of a successful experimental confirmation of evolutionary theory! ;)

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