-> GD> SA> The minor little mutations that happen every day may one day
-> GD> SA> either save or kill (or both as in sickle cell). 
-> GD> SA> Does he really not understand the "survival of the
fittest"
-> GD> SA> concept? 

-> GD>I think the problem lies in "the fittest".  It has been 
-> GD>anthropomorphized.  And, some groups have used the "ideals" as 
-> GD>a means of control.  

-> Exactly, that's why I prefer "best adapted."

I think of it as everything that doesn't work dies
in a dead end.
Biological mutations that are advantagous live on and allow
further mutation some of which dead and and others which succeed.

-> I was arguing with an adherent of "intelligent design," and
asked this 
-> person if an "intelligent designer" would have been such a
total fuckup 
-> with the Dodo bird.

-> His response, "The Dodo bird is a story, they never existed." 

Heh, didn't they exist until the early to mid 1900's?

-> I simply gave up and left the chatroom, it's impossible to get through 
-> cement heads like those.

For a fact.
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