On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:35:51 +0000 (UTC),
Constance Vigilant <anyoneleft@arthurandersen.com> wrote:
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> "RainLover" <SP-AMB-LOCKrainlover@raincity.com> wrote in message
> news:m5vutvofkooi8b1vvvk7odiun1hdeaj1eu@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:39:40 +0000 (UTC), "Piorokrat"
>> <piorokrat@autograf.pl> wrote:
>>
>> >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.
> If
>> >aquarists don't keep them alive they will disappear. the problem is that
> I
>> >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
> office
>> >a continual reminder of what happens when things in breed. In my
> xenophorus,
>> >the males are healthy, but every single female, no matter what I do, has
> its
>> >jaws seize up when it achives a certain age, and then it can eat and dies
> of
>> >hunger. Its eyes also start bloating out. Everyone else who has Plock zoo
>> >Xenophorus reports the same problem.
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> How do belivers in ToC explain away the lack of imbreeding?
>>
>> James, Seattle
>>
>
>
> 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.
And why would you say this? Could you provide some evidence. Actually,
could you even provide evidence for a flood and for this ark?
>
> 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.
Can you provide evidence that humans ever had lifespans in the centuries?
>
> We have inbreeding now, well enough.
>
> Every new speciation is a weakening of the original stock.
Could you also provide evidence for this claim.
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