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Author Topic:   The Electric Eel - more evidence against evolution
NoNukes
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Message 66 of 101 (704372)
08-09-2013 9:33 AM
Reply to: Message 64 by jar
08-09-2013 8:56 AM


Re: another rather typical misconception
Advantageous changes don't get selected; seriously disadvantageous changes that prevent reproduction get selected.
As I understand your statement it is wrong. Genomicus is also not quite correct for different reasons.
Changes that enhance the chances of generating viable offspring do enhance the prospects of a population dominating over those without the advantage.
Selection is both a negative (purifying selection) as well as a positive process.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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