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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
And after enough periods of gradual change, you can end up with something that looks totally different.
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What I meant by "immediately" is: the change must be beneficial at that point in time for it to be naturally selected.
A random change can't plan on how it might be beneficial hundreds of generations later (that would be ID, not evolution).
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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
That's assuming that the leg/wing was needed for the creature to survive.
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I confess.
I assumed that survival was quite necessary.
Are you suggesting that random variation over successive generations produces half-leg/half-wing creatures that are somehow more fit that full-legged or full-winged creatures?
(See SnT's link under "special pleadings")
Where is the fossil record of all of these intermediate forms?