What is Salty's 'semi-meiotic hypothesis'

Maybe you can explain what, in your view, is wrong with this:No organism has perfect DNA. You can always find places where a change would be for the better. If we consider only single-base-pair mutations, then a random mutation has the possibility, however slight, of occurring in a place where it would improve the organism.Most mutations will be neutral to negative, and natural selection will proportionally weed out the more negative mutations. The small number of positive mutations will be selected for and will increase in proportional representation in the population.This process continues for generation after generation, gradually improving the organism's adaptation to the environment, and allowing it to respond to changes in the environment.--Percy

Hi Salty,Estimates vary, but it wouldn't be too far off the mark to say that the human and chimpanzee genomes are only 2% different. Given that it doesn't take much of a genome difference to create a new species, how do you support this statement: Again, just considering single base-pair changes to keep things simple, over time such changes will accumulate, and there is nothing to keep the changes from reaching 1% different, then reaching 2% different, and then reaching 3% different, and so forth. At some point the differences will reach the point where the changed population and the original population are no longer interfertile, thus giving rise to a new species. Given that there's no limit to the accumulation of differences, what is to prevent speciation from happening?--Percy

And the difference is...?--Percy

And Crashfrog was being ironic. In your view, what is the difference between evolution and Darwinism?--Percy

Hi Salty,In your view, what is the difference between evolution and Darwinism.--Percy

Hi Salty,In your view, what is the difference between evolution and Darwinism.--Percy

Hi Salty,That doesn't really help me understand the difference between evolution and Darwinism. Could you please explain?--Percy

Hi Salty,As Mammuthus has pointed out, the word "evolution" has more than one meaning, and so you're just playing semantic games. It was pretty clear from context that people were not using your definition of evolution. I, for one, will not be typing "biological evolution" or "theory of evolution" very often, but will either write "evolution" or "TOE".Depending upon context, Darwinism can be a synonym for the modern theory of evolution, or it can refer to the theory of evolution as it existed before the modern synthesis, or it can be a loaded term as Mammuthus mentions. Because of its vagueness I rarely introduce the term myself.--Percy