Coggins7 wrote: Dogs have always been dogs. If you accept marcoevolution, then there was a time when there were creatures that would become dogs, but these were not dogs. They were other creatures. There may have been "proto dogs" and creatures prior to this that had no canine morphology or physiology whatever, but none of them were dogs, as we know them. Dogs, as a stable species, have always been as they are, in their various varieties. The wolves from which they descended were always as they were, except of course, when they weren't, in which case, "they" weren't wolves at all but creatures that would become them in time.
Wow... And this coming from the guy who was, in another thread, decrying the rhetorical two-steps so common to PoMo and deconstruction! Let's all say this again, slowly:
"The wolves from which they descended were always as they were, except of course, when they weren't, in which case, "they" weren't wolves at all but creatures that would become them in time. "
ROFL!! Silentkid is right: you are better off sticking to your pseudo-philosophical political blather, with its judicious sprinklings of pop-conservative "history". Bravo, Gomer, you've done it again! You are so myopic about your own limitations that I may have to start calling you "Mr. Magoo" instead!