re: Intelligent Design Vs. Evolution

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Micro is the fact that animals adapt to suit their environment over time..for example races of people living near the equator over time developed darker skin to protect from the sun.

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No. As the primate lineage that led to humans (and there's only one race, BTW) lost its protective coat of hair, those simians that had the most melanin in their skin survived best and had the healthiest offspring. So, when humans evolved to a hairless state, they had dark skin to protect against the sun's harmful rays but their bodies could still manufacture vitamin D using those same rays.

As humans migrated away from their source of evolution, into latitudes where the sun's rays were not as strong, the amount of melanin in their skin served as a hindrance to their ability to manufacture vitamin D. Now evolution favored those humans who had less melanin and their offspring had the advantage.

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Macro is the idea that humans came from monkeys.

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Humans didn't evolve from monkeys. Humans, monkeys, lemurs, chimps, apes and all other primates evolved from a common ancestor.

There is only evolution.