This Just In- EvoTARD Alert!

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OK hold on to something- I was just told that the first step of a process is NOT included in the process. For example the first step of natural selection is random, as in happenstance, variation. Yet when I told Dave Mullenix that natural selection includes variation and it was the first step of NS he told me:

Ah, there's the problem. You misunderstand how evolution works, then you criticise that mistaken version.

The real first strep is mutation, which provides a slightly altered genome.

OK so the "real" first step isn't variation, it's mutation- which is what causes the variation. He sure did show me, eh?

Then when I provided Ernst Mayr supporting my claim, Dave retorts:

Notice that the FIRST STEP is variation and the SECOND STEP is natural selection.

What I had originally said:

Natural selection includes the variation- it is the first step of NS. 

So according to Davey Mullenix the first step of a process is not included in the process.

And they call us IDiots...