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Today at the Design of Life blog – Mustangs vs. breed horses

Denyse O'Leary
March 19, 2008
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There has been a Darwinian vs. human-directed evolution experiment running in North America for centuries. It is the horse.

That is, the mustang vs. humanly directed horse breeds. What did natural selection do? What did intelligent design (specified complexity) do?

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From the article: - “Mustangs, descendants of European horses that escaped their human handlers and became feral, are uniquely ADAPTED to their environment. They share many traits with the wild horses noted above and PROVIDE A DEMONSTRATION OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTION IN ACTION.” (my emphasis) Well, I never thought I’d see a statement like that on UD !duncan
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I'm sorry. I read this article, and was painfully unimpressed. What the article did not discuss was the Darwinian doctrine of sexual selection. It is well believed, for instance, that the reason the peacock has its tail is to attract peahens. If the Darwinian community is correct, it would appear that sometime in ancient history, the peahen was attracted to a large tail. The peacock took that idea to the extreme. I see no fundimental difference between the peahen getting a penchant for long tails and humans getting a penchant for particular whimsical characteristic. This is not an impressive challenge to the neo-Darwinian model in my books.bFast
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