Comments on Profile Post by CatlasShrugged

Thanks. That means a lot coming from you.

I don't think it does but that's OK.

You've taught me something about being respectful of others and proselytizing and I hope I've taught you something about science. Please do ask your father about the bacteria thing and don't stop asking questions. Questions are important :)

Bacteria gaining immunity to antibiotics is environmental conditioning.

Sorry. Wasn't me. It seems you just really exposed yourself.

I read up on this just a few nights ago, and got some clarification, because I had seen there was some confusion in some profile posts that wasn't cleared up. Environmental condition is organisms changing their environment, e.g. water plants photosynthesizing, resulting in more oxygen being in an aquarium.

So, it's not any kind of evolution?

It seems like it's almost the opposite, to me. Rather than organisms adapting and changing over time to fit their environment, the organisms change their environment. It's not always a change to better fit the organism, and I'm sure it goes hand in hand with evolution, but it's sort of the other way around, in a way.

@GlobalistCuck

HELLO

yeah obama sounds pretty right, I don't know much about it to be honest. But Gehenna can you see yet how bacteria evolve?

Do cockroaches evolve when they can't be killed by a certain pesticide anymore?

In the barest sense, yeah. Most people think of evolution as only about speciation, but it really refers to any change over time in a species.

So, when I become immune to a virus, such as a strand of the common cold, I evolved?

No, you adapted. Evolution describes only changes caused by natural selection.

Gehenna humans don't really evolve much anymore, because there's not much that kills us. I suppose in the long term we might evolve to beat cancer, but there's no way of knowing.

You know an adaptation is evolution if:

a) The threat you adapted against could've killed you. Common cold? Nope.

b) The adaptation gets passed on to your kids. Your kids aren't going to be born immune to the common cold.

Feel free to correct me on any of this, Obama :)

Actually, the common cold can kill you if it leads to pneumonia, which can be deadly.

It only does that in rare cases. Those cases are far too few and far between for humans to evolve significantly against it. Much of modern medicine allows us to get vaccinated against diseases, eliminating more of the need to evolve to prevent the spread of disease.

I'd agree with Globalist in saying that evolution in humans is very very slow now. The term for that is "stasis."