vasak

I never accpeted giligia as a valid Armenian kingdom, it was an independent principality far away from Armenia, founded by Armenian princes and aristocrats. I am in no way disrespecting the Armenian people who lived there, or the soldiers who lost their lives to fight for it and protect it, but it was not an Armenian kingdom.

No. Evolution takes much slower. For evolution to occur, we need the perfect mutation at the perfect time, and it has to be reproduced and tested in different enviornments throughout many generations. Downwards and horizontal mutations don't survive long enough to become traits.

I did not read the whole thread because some guy brought God and morals into how someone can defend the idea of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, by definition, defeats its own purpose. According to a cultural relativist, all cultures' views are correct in their own ways, so they would have to accept our opinion about them to have at least the same validity as their opinion about themselves. If they don't sincerely accept it, they are not real cultural relativists. I believe that unless someone is utterly lost in this world, would they accept the idea that the lifestyle they live is wrong only because someone else said so, even though they have no problems are far as they are concerned. Do you see how crazy it sounds to be a real cultural relativist?

As for evidence for new organs and organisms, I will post them when I go home. Who is Futuyama? Natural selection is a hypothesys only when it comes to it being the explanation of how we came to be. But the actions and patterns included in the concept Natural Selection do occur in nature.

again? and how would i be wrong?

I'm sorry to tell you that there is no such thing as 100% Gilikian Hye.

we all saw that

MY attempt to reply to Sasun's third question Any evolution is upwards evolution: because mutations and changes happen very rarely, the act of evolving is a very slow one. Mutation and change are random, but because almost all mutants either die without offspring or their offspring doesn’t carry their mutation, very few mutations get to have a chance to "take over" the surrounding area of the animal, let alone the species. Natural mutations occur infrequently, and out of the few that do occur over thousands of years most are not given enough life cycles to establish themselves as traits, either because they were debilitating or insignificant to overall survival. But in rare cases mutations show up at the right place and at the right time. The right mutation has to happen to the right animal at the right time for the animal to gain any surviving skills. And if it does, the trait has to prove itself over and over again in many generations and countless altering circumstances. This process can take a very long time, especially in animals with long life spans. So “mutations, changes and origination of new species in all directions - up, down, horizontal.” DO occur, but at a very slow rate. The beauty of natural selection is that if nature is left alone, it will "evolve" by itself, constantly becoming whatever it needs to become to "fit" it's ever altering environment. The movie Adaptation takes a plausible shot at explaining this concept in terms of the human psyche. But that’s a psychology post.