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Quetzal
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Message 2 of 31 (41945)
06-02-2003 9:34 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Selectric III
06-02-2003 8:45 AM


Yeah, it'd be pretty silly to think all life and all its emergent properties - like Bach symphonies - came about by random chance, wouldn't it? Good thing we have the theory of evolution to explain it, then, isn't it?

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Quetzal
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Message 5 of 31 (41949)
06-02-2003 10:20 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Selectric III
06-02-2003 9:54 AM


Re: Quetzel says what???
an obsolete typewriter writes:
Random chance has nothing to do with random mutation? Hmmm, very interesting...
It's a bit unclear where you derived this. Perhaps you could show where in your previous post anything was mentioned about mutation - random or otherwise?
and burbling on in the same vein, Selectric III writes:
Your statement seems to indicate that you are the only one in the world capable of predicting the next set of random mutations and therefore the next stage of evolution for all species, since evolution merely describes that random mutations at random randomly cause all the biodiversity on the planet.
This ought to be good. Please explain how you arrived at predicting random mutations from my post? Also please explain how anything in this passage related to anything in your opening post. Inquiring minds, and all that...
and finally, Selectric III pointlessly writes:
Unfortunately, you're not likely to fill the peanut gallery with many believers in your bogus skillz.
And what skills (sic) would those be? As I have made no claims, I'd be curious to know a) who you think the "peanut gallery" might be, and b) what skills - bogus or otherwise - you think I'm attempting to create believers in?

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