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ringo

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Message 52 of 109 (570613)
07-28-2010 12:33 AM

Reply to: Message 49 by Bolder-dash
07-27-2010 11:17 PM

Bolder-dash writes:

Where are these random mutational changes that might make one particular sebaceous gland begin to secrete fluid onto your knee every time you get an itch there? Or how about a genetic mutation to a sebaceous gland that will allow you to squirt a deadly poison anytime a robber points a gun at you, sort of like spiderman; or at least like a spitting cobra?

For a theory that relies ENTIRELY on these type of processes to create every system on earth, you sure are lacking in real examples.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question or maybe I'm misunderstanding evolution but you seem to be asking for examples of things that don't happen. And it seems to me that it has been explained to you a few posts back that those things don't happen. It seems pretty unlikely that a spitting-cobra modification would happen with just one mutation.

People are explaining to you that 2 + 2 = 4 and you're demanding examples where 2 + 2 = 5.

Life is like a Hot Wheels car. Sometimes it goes behind the couch and you can't find it.

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Message 57 of 109 (570621)
07-28-2010 1:04 AM

Reply to: Message 54 by Bolder-dash
07-28-2010 12:52 AM

Bolder-dash writes:

Remember, each of the steps have to be significant enough to allow some type of reproductive advantage.

Not really. Disadvantageous mutations will be selected out but benign mutations don't have to be selected in.

Bolder-dash writes:

Go back in time, anywhere along the progression of this feature, and show how it is useful, all along its path to full functionality.

Again, it doesn't have to be "useful" at every step. As long as it isn't too detrimental to survival, it can exist for generations without any clear "usefulness".

Stop trying to be clever and try to understand the basic principles first.

Edited by Ringo, : Turned an advantage into a disadvantage.

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ringo

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Message 79 of 109 (570739)
07-28-2010 2:27 PM

Reply to: Message 73 by Bolder-dash
07-28-2010 10:54 AM

Bolder-dash writes:

Thus I am giving up giving crashfrog lengthy answers until he demonstrates a deeper level of insight.

You haven't been here long enough to know about my favourite joke: If you and I are being chased by a bear, I don't have to run faster than the bear. I only have to run faster than you.

Similarly, in order to school you in science, I don't have to know much science. I only have to know more than you.

At the moment, you're bear food. I'm miles ahead of you and crash is already sitting at home eating supper.

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Message 85 of 109 (570776)
07-28-2010 7:12 PM

Reply to: Message 80 by Bolder-dash
07-28-2010 6:26 PM

Bolder=dash writes:

Do you mean like when I asked what a mutation for a tear duct looks like, and he said a mutation to a sebaceous gland, and I asked what change and to which sebaceous gland-just one in the corner of the eye, and he said um, um..nothing?
Is that when he schooled me?

Yes, that's one example. He explained what your fundamental misunderstanding was.

You're no where near a level of understanding where you can criticize anything. You're like a little kid who can just about recite the alphabet and you're telling Shakespeare he did it wrong.

Life is like a Hot Wheels car. Sometimes it goes behind the couch and you can't find it.

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Message 101 of 109 (570917)
07-29-2010 11:44 AM

Reply to: Message 93 by Bolder-dash
07-29-2010 11:07 AM

Bolder-dash writes:

I am a troll that is hijacking my own thread?

You're probably too young to remember Richard Nixon's re-election in 1972. I recall an editorial comment from the time to the effect that America had chosen a smart crook (Nixon) over an honest fool (McGovern).

To this day, when somebody claims to be an honest fool instead of a smart crook, I usually take his word for it.

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