“My wife stands at 5'1 and, like most small/short people, has small features. Luckily for her she has no wisdom teeth...(probably because her head is small and has no room for them.)”
THat’s not an explanation for being born without them. The teeth genes don’t really care if the mouth is big enough , which is WHY we remove wisdom teeth, they tend to hurt coming in.
“ When she was 12, her dentist took xrays and informed her that she'd never have problems with wisdom teeth because she didn't have any to break through.”
I remember this being observed when i was in high school in the 70s, that some people were being born without wisdom teeth.
“This is interesting to me, because both of her parents had their wisdom teeth taken out years ago.”
Maybe. The Navy took my wisdom teeth out in submarine school. 20 years later, my dentist took out my wisdom teeth. Seems the Navy thought my 12-year molars were wisdom teeth.
“Now if you're to listen and believe in ToE, you would believe that certain organisms just happen to be born with certain traits, and, if the said traits were beneficial (aka helped them breed more successfully) this is how the population evolves.”
SO far so simplistic.
“ And the thing is, "fit" parents are supposed to be passing on their "fit" traits to their offspring.”
Well, no. Parents pass on all their traits, but not all of them to all their offspring. THose that win this lottery get a boost in competing against others.
“ If inheritance was not true and parents did not necessarily pass down specific traits according to whatever lucky genes they happened to possess, then ToE is thrown for a huge loop,”
No, it’s really not. ToE depends on us being imperfect replicators. Not every kid gets the same genes.
"as the offsprings' traits would be more of a biological crapshoot as opposed to a representation of their parents.”
Um, yes. THis is why gene pools evolve, not familylines.
“But my wife's parents both have wisdom teeth. So how and why did she end up with no wisdom teeth?”
Luck of the draw. If they had ten kids, maybe 8 of them had wisdom teeth?
“Also, everyone's heard the imaginary scenario that evos dreamed up about cheetahs, whereby faster cheetahs are more likely to breed, thereby supposedly having faster offspring...(which is how cheetahs came to be fast).....”
Well, faster cheetahs are more likely to be successful and more likely (not a solid lock) to have successful offspring.
"But how does ToE -- or the laws of genetics -- stand if both parents have a physical trait, (such as speed or wisdom teeth), yet their offspring ends up not having it???”
Ever play with blood types? Two AB parents can have A kids, B kids, and AB kids? But not O kids?
But an A and B parent might have A, B, AB, O.