That’s what i was gonna say lol. The random acts that led to this “defect” are how every living thing came to be, to the best of our knowledge. I wonder if that lil fellow could mature and produce offspring?
Except that's not true in the slightest. Changes happened over the span of millions of years. There weren't just points where suddenly there was one singular fish that randomly had fully-formed legs. And then one of its offspring suddenly and randomly had lungs that breathed air. They weren't genetic freaks, they were variations that slowly diverged.
“Not true in the slightest” is a bit extreme lol. Would you not say this divergence you are describing is the result of countless random acts? I wasn’t claiming all of evolution happened immediately, but that the acts that led to this are not so dissimilar from how an aspect of evolution functions. If you wanna get real particular about this, a chick having duplicate limbs is a much smaller leap than a fish randomly having fully formed legs.
A chick having random duplicate limbs is a defect from birth. If you punched a pregnant woman and the baby came out malformed, that isn't evolution. This chick isn't going to pass on these traits. It was messed up during its development from an embryo, not the result of a fundamental change in its genetics. Your understanding of "evolution" is limited to jokes they make on the Simpsons.
Not true even in the littlest inkling. This is not evolution at work.
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u/Lou_LL_11 29d ago
Genetic defect is just another word for evolution.