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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
You are right - industrial melanism as icon of evolution is also mimicry so to say. (Yet I dont know if industrial melanism after it has been proved to be pre-arranged is still used in textbooks). Are you claiming that this was all a fraud and does not in fact exist as a verified phenomenon? If so, you can support that assertion at Peppered Moths and Natural Selection -- it will be interesting to see if you can do any better than randman.
It is - for me - hard to believe, that ... Sorry but your incredulity and lack of imagination are not a refutation of observed facts, nor will they have any effect on the theory of evolution. Or any other science. Life goes on regardless of your opinions.
I have no doubt, that behind this phenomenon are genes, alleles...Yet the origin of these genes are to be explained as you mentioned - now we see only "could". What is wrong with "could"? It certainly doesn't amount to "could not" eh? What I find missing (other than the lack of genetic information that the study itself notes) is any study of the predators in the different areas. If there is selection going on (as demonstrated by the different patterns) the question is what is causing that selection eh? Enjoy. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I do not overestimate importance of my opinions, ... You thought it was important enough to post here, and it was demonstrably a logical fallacy -- as was noted upthread.
... yet same opinions share scientists as Punnet, Heikertinger, Suchantke...Suchantke, who visited Amazonia and teach on University ... Which has no bearing on the validity of the opinion. This is the "argument from authority" -- another logical fallacy. Who says {X} has no bearing on the truth of statement {X}.
... ..Suchantke ... has no problem to criticize darwinistic explanation. Interesting man.Creations Magazine article "The Rainforests: Beyond Black and White" (click to read) The Nature Institute article "Seeing the Rainforest" (click to read) Anthro Press excepted introduction to his book "Eco-Geography - What We See When We Look at Landscapes" (click to read .doc version) or (click to read googles html version) Excerpts from the last link above:
quote: So we have a sort of new age scientist proposing a theory for an additional evolutionary mechanism to natural selection based an emergent consciousness, which is based on his gestalt {experience\view\imagination} perception: "that evolution is a noetic as well as a biotic process" ... ... it seems to me that he is making the same logical error that IDists and creationists make, that because evolution doesn't (yet) explain {X} that {my pet theory, fill in the blank} is correct (in spite of an absolute absence of evidence that any mechanism of pet theory exists). Criticizing theory is part of science. Criticizing the different mechanisms and theories is part of how science advances. Offering alternate explanations and testing the differences in the results to see which is better is part of how science advances. The test is how well they stand up to the evidence, what they can predict that the other theory(ies) cannot. The question is whether the method can add to the knowledge of how things work. Now all we need are a couple of predictions based on his concept that would test it's validity ... something that seems to be in short supply -- do you know of one? On the other hand, I'll bet I have a fair idea what his response would be if you asked him directly if this particular problem puts the whole concept of evolution into jeopardy or if this only involves whether we should consider a "noetic" mechanism in addition to all other known mechanisms for evolution ...
But maybe he also suffers from lack of swelled darwinian imagination. Ah yes the "swelled darwinian imagination" that says things like -- "we observe {X} to happen in case {Y}, and we think it happened in other cases similar to {Y}, let's test that and see ..." No theory (whether "darwinian" or any other science) is based on an {absence of evidence} as a foundation, nor is imagination unchecked by testing and validation. Versus your approach that says -- "we have case {Z} that is not explained by current theory {W}, therefore (because we don't know how, and we just can't THINK how it might happen) that it just CAN'T happen and therefore evolution is wrong and the answer MUST be supernatural! BTW, I also noticed that you didn't respond to anything else in my previous post, specifically to:
Message 27 You are right - industrial melanism as icon of evolution is also mimicry so to say. (Yet I dont know if industrial melanism after it has been proved to be pre-arranged is still used in textbooks). Are you claiming that this was all a fraud and does not in fact exist as a verified phenomenon? If so, you can support that assertion at Peppered Moths and Natural Selection -- it will be interesting to see if you can do any better than randman. I'll take your non-response to this (and your failure to posting on the above thread) as a tacit admission that you were completely wrong in your statement, and that you hope it goes away if you ignore it so you don't have to admit that you were wrong. Enjoy. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
First I would like to close this: ... Please do -- you haven't yet, you did not answer the question, nor, it does appear, did you read the site you linked. See Message 121 for a fuller evaluation of your base assertion. I'll take failure to answer on that thread as taking the third option listed.
There are many prominent scientists ... But it is more philosophy. So you agree that it is philosophy and not science. Good. There is absolutely no problem with using philosophy to extend your world view of reality beyond what science can show. Or religion, or faith, etc. etc. etc. But it is a mistake to think that philosophy IS science.
But on my opinion darwinism is also philosophy. Do not deceit yourself - many of their strongest advocates are hypocrites - if there will be another idea which to support would be more lucrative they will do it. Marxism is also outdated naturalistic theory from 19 century like darwinism, unproved, yet some of us were taught "scientific communism". People, who taught it are now experts on democracy, criticizing Russia... Yawn. Your opinion. SNORE. For it to be more than opinion you need to provide something more substantial than assertions of deceit and hypocricy. You can start by answering Message 121 with integrity.
Using your brackets : if theory {T} is darwinistic {D}, that all imagination based in it {I} must be true too. Are you really that clueless? Not just about evolution but about science in general? If a theory is {true} then it will be validated by test after test after test. If a theory is NOT{true} then it will (eventually} be invalidated by a test -- although it may take a while to get to the critical test. Nowhere is there any claim that what science can imagine is {true} -- that is left for the realms of belief and fantasy, not science. When science gets to the point where there is insufficient data, the best it can say is "we don't know" or "we think this may be an answer, let's test it" -- and this holds for evolution as much as it holds for any other science.
You are right. Mimicry cannot be explained - my opinion - by neodarwinistic play of mutation and selection. ... ( using Batesian, Mullerian concepts or better combination both of them) You are conflating Batesian and Mullerian theories on mimicry with all of mutation and natural selection (sexual and survival), a logical error. But, if it is the case -- that mimicry cannot be explained "using Batesian, Mullerian concepts or better combination both of them" -- then the answer is that we don't know what the specific mechanism is, and most especially we don't know if ruling out Batesian and Mullerian concepts rules out ALL mechanisms of mutation and selection. To claim otherwise is to base a conclusion on an absence of information, and that is NOT science. And still your failure to be able to imagine how mimicry can occur by mutation and natural selection is no obstruction to it happening naturally.
But I did claim nothing about supernatural yet. Then you are down to the wire: either (1) some other as yet unknown natural mechanism hitherto totally unsuspected is behind it, or (2) it is supernatural (by definition = not natural). Either present evidence that (1) is in fact what you are arguing, including for good measure some preliminary description of the mechanism and a discussion of how it can achieve the desired result, OR Admit that your conclusion (whether explicitly stated or not) is that the mechanism involved -- in the absence of evidence one way or the other -- is supernatural. Enjoy. Edited by RAZD, : last line Edited by RAZD, : poyt we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
About peppered moth there are plenty materials on Internet - I have no intention transcript anti-darwinian articles and read your transcrition of darwinian claims ... In other words you admit you have no integrity. None. You just demonstrated that you are not interested in the truth.
Evolution - especially darwinism is not science. Do not deceit yourself, darwinism is as much science as was once marxism. You can post these false bald unsubstantiated assertions all day, but as we have just seen -- you have no integrity, and are willing to post falsehoods in anything you say. You are not interested in the truth.
But if you claim that mimicry aroses via random mutation and natural selection and this claim has to do something with science (and not with another myth from 19 century) than give us some explanation - e.g.how is it possible that on the same place we have models, mimics and no-mimics and how natural selection here works? The manners in which mimicry could arise have been discussed and you have waved them off -- not because you have invalidated the mechanisms, but because you have no integrity.
I only presented opinion, And your opinion is worthless. You have no integrity and are not interested in the truth. Enjoy we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Maybe you can find some opposite information to support your view - I would like read it ... You of course should realize by now that the peppered moths are just such an example of the effect of predation by birds on the selection of moths that blend better with their prevaling environment -- whether sooty or clean.
... butterflies are not at all easy to catch. They are erratic fliers ... And that moths are even harder for birds to catch in flight when they fly mostly at night, but that birds have no trouble catching and eating moths when they are at rest. Of course the erratic flight would be another selected behavior due to it's survival value ...
... birds as a whole, the evidence indicates that most simply don’t go after butterflies. As Jar pointed out the logical fallacy of {SOME} for {ALL} fails to be sufficient evidence that it can't happen. There are also birds that eat insects at certain times of the year and not at others - such as when getting ready to migrate (extra protein), or when feeding young - so the reluctance to eat butterflies during parts of the year doesn't mean a total reluctance to eat butterflies. Enjoy. Edited by RAZD, : added feeding young we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
You really just say whatever comes into your head don't you?
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
You scold Jar for bringing up mimicry in vertebrates and now you want to talk mushrooms? Not all bright colors/patterns are examples of warning coloration. Propose a new topic if you wish to discuss it heh, I noticed that too. It's mimicry in action ... It's called restricting other information that invalidates the hypothesis on the pretense that it doens't focus on the issue, but then when more information starts to show the hypothesis really is invalid then introduce lots of new information to try to obscure the points being made. Ignoring all counter arguments is like that too (ie pepper moths show actual natural selection based on preferential predation due to differences in visibility of moth versus background). Edited by RAZD, : No reason given. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I will continue cite from the same article (next sentences): "Therefore, a gradual increase in conspicuousness towards aposematism seems unlikely. ...." In other words: saltationism. That's quite a jump ... in logic. A logical fallacy, as what this says is that {A} can't become {B} therefore {B} cannot exist, when it has not been shown that {B} cannot come from any NOT{A} -- as PaulK pointed out. (That's the molehill that you think is such a big barrier) But I'll add to the comment that PaulK said, something that may clarify the distinction for you: Both cryptic coloration and aposematic coloration are responses to selection by predation, one to become more camouflaged and the other to become more flambouyant - and badtasting(1). For one to evolve to the become the other they have to climb down the Dawkins Mountain of Fitness to the valley (where their common ancestors with the other insects evolved from), and then evolve up the other mountainside: they must become less fit first.(That's the mountain that is the barrier -- for the conditions in the study you cited) You would get a similar result if you tested aposematic insects to evolve into cryptic by making them taste better first. The tastier ones would get eaten before they could evolve into cryptic forms. To properly test for the effect of natural selection you need to start with an insect that is neutral for visibility and taste. This was not done by the study cited, therefore it doesn't test for this type of evolution. Enjoy. (1) - plants are known to have evolved bad taste as a response to being eaten, logical that bugs would do that as well with proper selection pressure. The bad taste is the selected defense mechanism to predation for the aposematic insects, a defense that the cryptic insects don't need. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
MartinV, I see no need to address any questions you raise, as you ignore responses and links that address your questions and assertions. Furthermore you string together comments and links and throw in off the wall tangental topics and think that this suffices for serious debate. It doesn't. I am beginning to think you are not really interested in this debate but just want to stir things up as much as possible in some kind of sophomoric game. And there have been no further replies on the topic since this. This is a typical creationist ploy -- when the evidence gets too dangerous to confront change the topic. Enjoy. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1436 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Perhaps tufted titmice (same size as chickadees) don't eat anything as big as grasshoppers, crickets and butterflies.
I would look at all the various flycatchers up to kingbirds and shrikes for more rigorous information. Enjoy. compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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