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Originally posted by SLP:
I made the following post on the OCW board, on which creationist electrical engineer Walter ReMine is presently active.
In addition, I posted the pertinent information in several other threads on that board, and ReMine simply ignores the evidence, and continues to peddle his erroneous fluff. ReMine is the author of the creationist book "The Biotic Message", which he seems desperate to get people to buy, judging from the repeated references
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Comments appreciated.
I Know that this is not the comma that will change any thing relevant to the discussion of "mutation" but I did want to say that I thought by concentrating on the benefical vs lethal mutation I, myself, would be able to, one way or the other, lift some of the vestigial log jam in the c/e discussion matrix. I must report I have failed in this point particularly perhaps expressing some sentiments in line of this thread. I located two reasons for this failure. One, mutations (short of making detailed references to the literature) have actually some positional variation despite the definitional restriction, often, to "point" mutations. There was a chemical called 'acridines' that was thought to intercalate between whatever these points would be. This lead me to realize that like Barbara McClintock not getting her PHD from Cornell being a woman and D Star Jordan being given a Masters without an undergraduate degree that that even on this point of the amount of benefical to harmful mutations the "players" had rigged the conversation in advance(before hand). The other reason had to do with my still optimistic response for an outcome in that I did and still do when I think of it, think , that using MATHMATICA PROGRMMINg LANGUAGE and Rene Thom's Catastrophe Theory an empricical software tool could be made that actually would score and tabulate in some manner the difference of these mutations(no matter the interpretation given to Sturtevant's "position effect"; I do not know what specifically Ernst Mayr refers to when he says that genes have more than positional effect etc). I do not now the meaning invested in Haladane's Dillema or the statistical techniques needed to address the issue as SLP is presenting here but there may indeed be more than meets the eye.
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