[MD] Oneness, Dualism & Intellect

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Platt] 
> What predictions does evolution make? 

> [Case] 
> It predicts that if you take two randomly selected populations from the same 
> species and isolate them from each other, when you come back in a couple of 
> hundred thousand years you will see different distributions of traits...

We can show it even more efficiently (i.e., within Platt's lifetime.)  Take a rapidly breeding species (like fruitflies) that all have the gene for gray coloring, but that gene can mutate to white or black.  Put half the flies in a dark environment (where white & gray, but not black, stands out) & half in a light environment (where gray & black, but not white, stands out.)  Add frogs.  In each half, most offspring will be gray, with a few black & a few white.  Generally, in the dark side, the white will be eaten first, next gray & the black will survive.  And the opposite on the light side.  Over generations the proportion of blacks on the dark side & whites on the light side will increase.
The mutation of the gene for coloring may be random, but the selection by the frogs who to eat is not.
Craig