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Originally Posted by vvq
You just don't understand evolution, you wouldn't say anything above if you did. Whatever happens, happens because it can. And that's all evolution. You don't stop and start it. Reread the previous posts in which I tried to explain it to you. Tell me what doesn't make sense to you because clearly something doesn't.
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You sir, are clearly misinformed. I do agree that evolution happens because it can - nowhere did I say otherwise. But of course you can stop evolution - a panda only eats bamboo, nothing else. Now if you eradicated bamboo from the planet by non-natural means you have stopped evolution of panda, because he will not survive. You could of course look at it the other way, that you have accelerated evolution bcause panda was always doomed for extinction, ever since he evolved into a bear that only ate bamboo. Evolution can be a negative thing as well. Either way like you said evolution happens because it can, if the animal is nolonger alive, it can't therefore you have stopped evolution
If you introduce pest-resistant mutations of genes into crops, you have accelerated evolution of that species - it may well have evolved to introduce a mutation that made it more restant of its own accord, and it may hav happened tomorrow or in a billion years time. But man introduced it today.