At 10:49 AM 7/16/98 +1000, Donald Howes wrote:
>The question about the fruit fly is a macro one. Is it possible to mutate a
>fly past the point of being a fly?
Not in 100 years it isn't.
>
>The period of time is difficult to comprehend. Human intervention can make
>changes much faster than the would happen in nature, the differnce between
>a Great Dane and a Chihuahua shows that, as most breeds of dog have only
>come into existance in the last few hundred years.
>
>With the fruit fly, they aren't trying to stay within any bounds, they are
>trying to make it evolve into something else, using every method know to
>induce mutations.
This is not true. They are not trying to change it in an evolutionary
manner. They use the radiation to understand genetics, and the function of
genes. This is not the same thing as breeding a dog to be able to take out
badgers.
glenn
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
Foundation, Fall and Flood
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