At 9:37 AM 6/17/97, Pim van Meurs wrote:
>JQ: What amazes me is the lack of discussion of the effects of random
>mutations on the genome. Natural selection is named as proof but even this
>makes no sense. Even if there were were some favorable mutations by random
>
>Natural selection is not named as proof but as a hypothesis or theory
>explaining the mechanism(s) of evolution.
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>JQ: chance, what about the non-favorable mutations? If we say these did
>not
>happen or somehow dont count then we are fooling ourselves.
>
>
>Nobody claims they do not happen. On the contrary. But the idea is that
>non-favorable mutations will reduce the likelihood of the organism to
>survive and thus will not propagate.
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>JQ: New generations(using the evolutionist models) would only provide more
>opportunities for random mutations.
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>
>Cool. More opportunities for mutation, more opportunities for evolution.
>
>Regards
>
>Pim