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Author Topic:   Asexual to sexual reproduction? How?
Hawks
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Message 28 of 78 (365522)
11-22-2006 10:34 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Eledhan
09-20-2005 11:04 AM


Take it to Michael Behe
I take it that this is some sort of irreducible complexity kind of argument. You know, the one where there are so many interdependent parts needed that evolution could not possibly have done it. From your opening post it would seem that this is how you view things. But as several others have pointed out, everything leading from asexual to fully sexual reproduction (male and female) would not have happened in one generation. There would have been a precession of changes taken place over multiple generations. (BTW, You should not have dissed Mr Jack's imaginitive suggestions so easily. There was simply an attempt to show you HYPOTHETICALLY how this could have happened.).
The reasoning in your opening post was flawed, but even IF your statements were valid, they might not necessarily be a huge problem. In fact, points 3-8 could in fact be fulfilled by the organism in which that one original mutation occurred, simply splitting in two as per usual and then mating with itself. Boom, more progeny and more potential mates (but then, just like you did in your original post, I'm just rambling here).

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Hawks
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Message 34 of 78 (365637)
11-23-2006 5:25 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by Hyroglyphx
11-23-2006 4:10 PM


Re: Difficult to resolve
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The organism that first evolved sex organs must have had those glands in place in order to produce offspring.
No, for example, the population of organisms that first evolved sex might have been single-celled.
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It needs a suitor of the opposite sex.
No, it is not difficult to conceive "that members of the same sex" can mate and exchange genetic information.
The rest of your post more or less repeats the above statements and deserve no further attention, apart from this one:
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You can call that an argument of incredulity, but I call it an argument from sensibility.
I'd call it an argument from ignorance.

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