A Stitch in Haste

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine...But Haste Makes Waste

A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on law, economics, politics, culture and other current events
by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar.

Dogs are Proof of Intelligent Design...
(Why aren't you reading this at the new website?)

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...But of course the intelligent designers are us:
The reason we targeted the dog genome for decoding is that it's useful for genetic research. The reason it's useful for genetic research is that dogs are neatly divided into breeds, each of which is plagued by specific diseases. And the reason dogs are divided into diseased breeds is that we made them that way.
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Dogs were just a loose category of wolves until around 15,000 years ago, when our ancestors tamed and began to manage them. We fed them, bred them, and spread them from continent to continent. While other wolf descendants died out, dogs grew into a new species. We invented the dog.
In the span of evolutionary time, 15,000 years is absolutely nothing -- and look what we were able to do through our clumsy, trip-and-stumble, barely semi-intelligent designing.

Now go from 15,000 years to 15 million years to 150 million years to 1.5 billion years and beyond. The sheer enormity of evolutionary time more than compensates for the absence of an "intelligent designer."

Evolution is a fact, not a theory. Open your eyes, turn on your brain and deal with it.
Posted by Kip on 14 December 2005


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