Constance Vigilant wrote:
> "RainLover" <SP-AMB-LOCKrainlover@raincity.com> wrote in message
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>>On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:39:40 +0000 (UTC), "Piorokrat"
>><piorokrat@autograf.pl> wrote:
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>>>I'm breeding Xenophorus captivus, which of course is extinct in the wild
>>>because the mexicans didn't care about the protection of their habitat.
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> If
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>>>aquarists don't keep them alive they will disappear. the problem is that
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> I
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>>>got mine from Plock zoo, the only strain available in Poland, and it is
>>>already so inbred that I have continually behind my back here in the
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> office
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>>>a continual reminder of what happens when things in breed. In my
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> xenophorus,
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>>>the males are healthy, but every single female, no matter what I do, has
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> its
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>>>jaws seize up when it achives a certain age, and then it can eat and dies
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> of
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>>>hunger. Its eyes also start bloating out. Everyone else who has Plock zoo
>>>Xenophorus reports the same problem.
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>>You bring up an excellent point with your xenophorus...
>>Scientifically speaking, how would you explain the earth's population
>>deriving from ONE man and ONE woman?
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>>How do belivers in ToC explain away the lack of imbreeding?
>>
>>James, Seattle
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> We would say the all genes had their maximum vigour at the point of
> creation. Inbreeding started to become a problem only after the ark, and
> maybe only after the diaspora of the Babel civilisation.
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> This was when the Bible shows the human life span decreasing. Some say that
> its the change from lunar months to years, but that doesn't account for the
> gradualness of the change.
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> We have inbreeding now, well enough.
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> Every new speciation is a weakening of the original stock.
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Thanks for sharing your religious opinions with us.
Why should anyone pay any more attention to your religious opinions than
they should to mine or my nexy door neighbor's or my car mechanic's?
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