Ray Martinez < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message That is what evolution claims: NS modifies an organism, then the modified organism breeds passing the modification into the population. The next generation inherits the modification (= gradualism). Again, Ray, that's wrong.   Natural selection does not modify an organism. It modifies the gene frequency in the population over many generations. Natural selection cannot change the genes of the individual, only of the gene pool over time.    This has been explained to you many times.  Why do you keep misunderstanding this simple matter? Because it is not simple - that's why. Today I was, in the course of writing my paper, searching my electronic files of rough drafts written well over a year ago. I was searching for something completely unrelated to the issue here, but low and behold, there it was: I had written (in my own words of course) exactly what you have been saying about natural selection. As soon as I saw it I said to myself Dana is right. Ray, If you are having trouble understanding, at the most basic level, the theory you are attacking, how do you know you are right to attack it? If you were wrong about the basics of natural selection, and the group here was right, how do you know the same isn't true about the rest of your claims regarding these topics? I suspect your immediate reaction to such questions would be along the lines of, because the Bible says so, and I believe it , but how do you know that even the first part of that statement is true, and if it is, do you want to place yourself in the situation that discovering that everyone here is right about Evolution will cause a complete collapse of your faith? Lee Jay