Originally Posted by LinearAq
Originally Posted by CTD
Death occurs. Nobody has discovered a demonstrable way to predict any pattern. The observed pattern of death does not match the predicted pattern of death. It is always so, when predictions are made in advance. Unless of course, someone interferes to ensure a desired pattern.
??? Is this your reasoning as to why natural selection doesn't occur? Are you saying, for example, that death will occur to a group of faster predators at the same percapita rate as it will occur to a group of slower predators who hunt the same speedy prey?
I am predicting no such thing. To do so would be silly. It would be self-defeating. Your trap is wasted on me.

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In this case, natural selection will allow the group of predators that can get food better to have more offspring. More offspring means a higher percentage of the predator population will be the faster predator (in this case).

Perhaps I don't fully understand your version of "natural selection" and why it cannot occur in your reality.
I pretty much understand all versions of the selection goddess. I also understand that you and most evolutionists feel compelled to switch versions quite frequently.

One minute she's omniscient, eliminating any "defect" no matter how minute, no matter that it's an unexpressed recessive trait. Next time you turn around, she's on vacation, allowing all sorts of things to pile up. She can choose a single gene in a single fly out of all the flies in the world, and preserve it. Yet she "only sees populations" every other Tuesday.

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