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Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species?
Jamie found an amusing bit this morning on Scientific American where the author proposes that dog breeds are different species. Now some of you might recoil when you hear this suggestion, but if you read the article to see why he makes this suggestion I suspect you'll crack a smile and appreciate the elegance of the solution.
Just remember if you argue that dog breeds are different species, especially the case of the mastiff and chihuahua, or the teacup yorkie and newfoundland, these different species are verifiably the result of intelligent design. Selection was involved, but not natural selection.
Two completely different things: intelligent design of an entire planet, creating life from nothing and selectively breeding animals to enhance traits.
I am not sure if you are trying to argue against evolution, playing devil's advocate or what, but please explain to me how humans can manage to reproduce the results of a natural process with some sort of "intelligence" and some sort of "design"? That is just like religious people... find a way to make all attempts to contradict them wrong before they even have a chance, regardless of any real merit.
No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
The problem with dog breeds is that a Chihuahua can mate with a terrier, and a terrier can mate with a gun dog, and a gun dog can mate with the largest of dogs.
What's this "mating by proxy" theory of yours ? Is it so that one can claim "I screwed Angelina Jolie, through 17 intermediaries" ?
Should we create a new "degrees of separation" website ?
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Homo Waspus
Homo Niggerus
Homo Chinataunus...
and so on...
And no one will consider that pygmy and maasai are different species... Because both are just pitch black as tar... Why we would make them different, isn't it? Because for the hordes that is much more important than a wicked psychoanalitic question of climbing, at the edge of zoofilia in the middle of scientific pornography. That way evolutionists will get millions of adepts... With a little defect of stiffness at right hand and ex-promptu drop[ing "Mein Fuhrer"...
Scientific American would do a greater job to Science by keeping those homo dumbus scientificii a little bit ashore.