[_ Old Earth _] Is This Stupid Or What

[Lewis]

The Big Search to Find Out Where Dogs Come From

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...here-dogs-come-from/ar-BBonuuj?OCID=CALHeader

 

[Free]

What in particular is stupid?

 

[Lewis]

What in particular is stupid?

Where did dogs come from, that is what is stupid to me.

 

[Barbarian]

It's an important issue in several ways. The question originally was whether L. familiaris is a different species than L. canis, or whether they are subspecies within a single species. Recent genetic data indicate that dogs did not evolve from the sort of wolves we have today, but that both wolves and dogs evolved from a common ancestor which is now extinct.

The genetic data now suggest that dogs separated from wolves about 27,000 years ago, which probably means that they were associating with humans that far back. While it's not certain, that would explain why we see more genes for amylases (dogs have a higher tolerance for human diets than do other canids) and why they and wolves have more differences in nuclear DNA than in mitochondrial DNA.

One really interesting finding is that humans adapted to association with dogs as much as dogs adapted to humans. The symbiosis seems to have been voluntary on both sides, a symbiosis that left dogs more hominid-like, and humans more canid-like. It's why we tend to have dogs even when they are no longer working with us for a living. We are made to have those four feet trotting behind.

So the research tells us a little more about us.

 

[Knotical]

It is a stupid question, as the answer is simple. God created them. Yes there has been cross breeding going on for thousands of years, but the basic fundamental traits of dogs has not changed.

 

[Barbarian]

God created them.

Yes, but the way He did it, can tell us much about ourselves as well as about dogs.

 

[Knotical]

Yes, but the way He did it, can tell us much about ourselves as well as about dogs.

By speaking them into existence, not through evolution, despite what secular "scientists" are saying.

 

[Barbarian]

That's not what Genesis says. According to God, the Earth produced living things.

 

[Mike S]

Searching for where dogs come from? Ours came from a breeder in Windsor Locks.

 

[Barbarian]

While mine came from a rescue. She may be a goofy basset/beagle, but it's remarkable how many wolf traits remain alongside all those adaptations for living with humans.

 

[Mike S]

While mine came from a rescue. She may be a goofy basset/beagle, but it's remarkable how many wolf traits remain alongside all those adaptations for living with humans.

I like rescue dogs. Our last dog was some kind of lab mix with God knows what else. She was a sweetheart.

 

[Lewis]

It is a stupid question, as the answer is simple. God created them. Yes there has been cross breeding going on for thousands of years, but the basic fundamental traits of dogs has not changed.

BINGO

 

[Barbarian]

I like rescue dogs. Our last dog was some kind of lab mix with God knows what else. She was a sweetheart.

They know that you've rescued them. As they say, a dog is the only thing that will love you more than it loves itself.