Quote Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls
A Reflex by definition is an involuntary response to a stimulus in the environment. Reflexes can be learned or inherited. Those reflexes that are inherited are instinctual reflexes. Babies have instinctual reflexes including things like crying when hungry, the newborn grasping and breast sucking reflexes, and shivering when cold.




You missed my point.....I was pointing out what is Darwinism and what isnt.....Oh and Darwin didnt come up with the idea of evolution.....there are a variety of mechanisms that one could invision that could cause species to evolve. Another mechanism of evolution is Lamarckian evolution.


I'll defend evolutionary biology very quickly here. The fact we share 37% of our DNA Sequences with a flower is hardly evidence against evolution.

Genes for enzymes involved for fundamental processes like cellular respiration are very conserved...they arent going to change much over the course of time. SO of course we share a fair amout of genetic material with very distantly related species......if we didnt that would be evidence against descent with modification.

The fact that we share 98% of our DNA sequence with chimps is more of a problem for genetics to explain than evolutionary biology. How do we explain the baltant phenotypic differences between us and chimps?

Molecular biology is finding a bunch of cool mechanisms for phenotypic difference beside different DNA sequences. RNA splicing, silencing, post-transplation modications, epigentic inheritance, these are all under active investigation.


PS>The big ideas in Science are never proven.
Which is why the nice, slow rise in sequence of the horse was removed from the Museum of Natural History in New York. Because it was proven to be incorrect. Mendel, if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to take this to another thread...Let's stop mucking up this one. I've got some questions I'd like answered.