Monday, July 16, 2012

"What Are the Top Ten Problems w/Darwinian Evolution"

Multiple comments in for this post.

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I dare you (or anyone else on any side of this discussion) to define positive evidence.
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Dark matter? Quantum theory?

Do we throw those out of consideration by the same standard since the former cannot be
studied directly and the latter has no tangible mechanism?
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I'm definitely adding this ENV post to my collection of things to pass on to anyone who wants a
crash course on this debate.

As an addition within #4, I would add that selection also has trouble eliminating deleterious
mutations if they start off as neutral but become harmful as they accumulate. By the time the
aggregate effect of otherwise neutral mutations become negative, it's too late to eliminate them
 one by one.

This lack of foresight is a bigger problem for organisms with larger genomes, as highlighted in the
 book "Genetic Entropy."
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Comment on "Machine Revolution"

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Interesting read, I think I saw an animation of this somewhere a while back.

That "if-then" statement seems pretty broad though. I guess assuming a particular origin of a
biological feature has less to do with understanding how it actually works than what practitioners
of "normal science" would have us believe.

Now comes the flurry of commenters who think they are original when they insist this feature may
have other functions outside the flagellum.
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