RE: Evolution of redundancy

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:00:55 -0800

Pim van Meurs wrote:

> DALLAS -- Myoglobin, the protein long thought to be the sole carrier of
> oxygen to heart and certain skeletal muscle, is not necessary for survival, UT
> Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists reported in the October 29
> issue of the journal Nature.

Cliff: So, redundancy is a point against design? In that evolution has
reasons for vestigial things and sloppy mechanisms? (Along with
the wonderful things?)

Actually the argument was that this showed design since evolution could not explain the redundancy.