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Date/Time 17 Mar 2014 7:25:30pm

So you were accidentally dishonest multiple times? My apologies.

Actually your rebuttal has been flawed multiple times now, I just didn't realise that you would require me to spell it out for you.

So quoting: The characteristics might not always be displayed but even the most inactive of organisms has the potential to carry out these functions.

That means that all organisms have the potential to carry out those functions. Zygotes do feed get nutrients from their environment (they're free floating in the mother at that stage) and they have the potential to reproduce. I hope that is clear now.

By natural tendency I just meant given the nature of X it will do this under these conditions. So for natural selection you might have DNA which by it's nature has the potential to do only certain things. So it might replicate, or it might mutate but it's not going to turn into a golf ball. For each thing you will have particular potentials that can be activated under the right conditions but it doesn't just do anything.