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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 9334958" data-attributes="member: 6795602">Evolution occurs because of small population adaptions to the environment over time.Can you really not imagine an animal halfway between a dog and Wolverine and wonder what kind of environment might have produced it? There’s nothing in the theory of evolution that suggests such an animal is impossible afterall.Mostly this, I’d just note the continuum need not be 1 dimensional. if you want to say all the real world animals ever in actual existence do not form a continuum then I agree. Far too many gaps. But I’m not likening what I speak of to being all the real world animals currently to have ever existed.&nbsp; The explanatory likening would be more, what all theoretical animals could be produced by the evolution process in earthlike environments.&nbsp; Would you say this is a continuum?This is the same ‘let’s limit discussion to games in actual existence’ instead of to ‘any theoretical game that could exist’.&nbsp; The first is not a continuum. The second almost certainly is.&nbsp;If the ‘theory’ is not applicable to theoretical games that could exist but don’t currently then it’s not really a very good explanatory theory.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 9334958, member: 6795602"] Evolution occurs because of small population adaptions to the environment over time. Can you really not imagine an animal halfway between a dog and Wolverine and wonder what kind of environment might have produced it? There’s nothing in the theory of evolution that suggests such an animal is impossible afterall. Mostly this, I’d just note the continuum need not be 1 dimensional. if you want to say all the real world animals ever in actual existence do not form a continuum then I agree. Far too many gaps. But I’m not likening what I speak of to being all the real world animals currently to have ever existed. The explanatory likening would be more, what all theoretical animals could be produced by the evolution process in earthlike environments. Would you say this is a continuum? This is the same ‘let’s limit discussion to games in actual existence’ instead of to ‘any theoretical game that could exist’. The first is not a continuum. The second almost certainly is. If the ‘theory’ is not applicable to theoretical games that could exist but don’t currently then it’s not really a very good explanatory theory. [/QUOTE]

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