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Message 328 of 1034 (726267)
05-07-2014 1:44 PM
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05-07-2014 1:41 PM


Re: Good idea, next step
But remember that the situation for artificial breeds and natural species is different. The breed is defined by its distinctive traits while a species defines its distinctive traits.
The genetic situation is nevertheless the same.

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Message 331 of 1034 (726271)
05-07-2014 2:42 PM
Reply to: Message 330 by NoNukes
05-07-2014 2:12 PM


Re: Good idea, next step
NoNukes writes:
Have no idea what you're talking about except that it's some kind of weird straw man.
As is normal for you, you admit forming your opinion without any understanding. So let me spell out my argument for you.
Scientists believe that humans evolved from an ancestor names Homo erectus about 2 million years ago. If that is the case, then the target "breed" would be modern humans,
What's a "target" breed?
including all of the diversity that currently exists.
It appears we have quite a bit.
That means that mutations that produce the variations that we find among the current population would not interfere with the creation of the current species.
This occurs when you have a small fairly homogeneous population, not in a huge diverse population where the norm is variety.
But put a dozen people on an island where they are the sole founders of a distinct population that arises over many generations. You'll get a very distinct set of traits after ten generations, certainly twenty, a very distinct look, probably more distinct than the groups that we are pretty able to recognize as, say, "Scandinavian" or "(east) Indian." Then mutations that kept appearing in the identifying traits would interfere with that identifiable trait picture. But this doesn't happen, what you get is really a blending of the characteristics of the original founders, some dominating because they are higher frequency, some falling out over time.
As far as strawmen go, since your stated position is that even given mutations, we cannot obtain new species,
I think what I said is tht they would interfere with existing species if they kept cropping up after a species had developed, again thinking of a fairly homogeneous population. Wildebeests, a particular species of frogs, raccoons, that sort of thing where they all look more or less alike and the individual variations don't stand out in the crowd. But although I don't believe mutations happen in anywhere near the frequency they would have to in order to fuel evolution I do try to allow for the possibility, in which case they are just one way you get variations, simple gene flow being another, but that when you are getting a species formed from a small number of individuals they would become an interference, if they actually occur, because that situation is based on mixing the existing alleles for a particular set of traits.
only a single example counter example is necessary to prove you wrong. In contrast, disproving single examples that others offer does not prove your point. You must disprove every strategy offered.
I don't get your rules. If what I'm describing is what actually occurs in the examples I'm giving then whether I can get it across to anyone or not I've made the point I'm trying to make.
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Message 334 of 1034 (726288)
05-07-2014 8:25 PM
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05-07-2014 3:09 PM


and I still say (macro) evolution is impossible
But put a dozen people on an island where they are the sole founders of a distinct population that arises over many generations.
Whoa! You seem to have forgotten what the dispute is about. Your claim is that evolution is impossible. You don't get to take a dozen people and show the problems that result, because none of us are claiming that you can take a dozen people and create a diverse population. That kind of bottleneck is how you get something like cheetahs.
But it is the kind of situation I've been describing all along that is the basis for breeds and subspecies. These require limiting the numbers of individuals, you aren't going to get breeds or species unless you do that and the result is always new traits with less genetic diversity. So of course I'm going to use this kind of example, it's the one I've been using all along. The numbers don't have to be so drastically limited, but they do have to be changed from the parent population so you get the new allele frequencies that bring out the new traits.
In fact it is you silly YECs who insist that the entire current population of humans came from only 8 people, including three people who were direct descendants of two others.
But we also assume much greater genetic diversity back then, my version of this being that all of them and all the animals as well were heterozygous for all or almost all traits, along with having many more functioning genes for each trait. This goes along with what I've also said about how I think there was no junk DNA then, that junk DNA is first of all the evidence of the bottleneck of the Flood, but also the result of the death of genes over the last few thousand years due to the loss of genetic diversity I keep saying is inevitable with the formation of new species or subspecies. These days if you limit numbers drastically the new population is threatened, back then it wasn't, it had sufficient genetic diversity to form all the subspecies/species we see today from only the people and the animals on the ark. But I'd also add that before the Fall a creature that did arrive at complete genetic depletion, like the cheetah, wouldn't have been threatened either.
Perhaps now you can understand why the burden persuasion is different for you and I. I can agree that a population of a dozen people is not enough to create the human race and still press the argument that your silly scheme does not reflect reality. Or at the very least reality allowing mutations.
Sorry, you aren't persuading ME. I still don't think you get what I've been arguing.
simple gene flow
What do you mean by simple gene flow? Is that simply Mendelian inheritance? You cannot even get dachshunds using that alone
You don't get any kind of breed from gene flow or mutations. All they do is provide the genetic material that then has to be subjected to selection which is what brings out the new traits along with reducing the genetic diversity.
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Message 335 of 1034 (726289)
05-07-2014 9:04 PM
Reply to: Message 332 by Percy
05-07-2014 2:59 PM


Re: Mutations Don't Add Anything That Could Rescue the ToE
Faith, you're still ignoring these realities:
1.A new species cannot be created simply by selecting a subset of the alleles of an existing species. Any organism possessing only a subset of alleles of the parent species is still the same species. If this were not true then breeders would be creating new species all the time.
Well of course, I don't believe you'll get anything BUT the same species, I just use the word because you all do when you get a new population that doesn't breed with the former population, and I'm saying there is no other way you get any of this anyway, your new "species" or any of it.
Breeding always starts with selecting an animal or small number of animals for desired traits and breeding them for those traits, this IS how breeding is done. You are favoring traits and their alleles while aggressively leaving out traits and their alleles you don't want. Again the term "species" is artificial, so theoretically you could even get a breed that could no longer produce offspring with others of the same Species.
2.Mutations can affect any part of the genome, and mechanisms like drift and selection control their spread through a population.
And the reality is that they only very rarely affect the germ cells and only rarely in any way that produces a viable new allele. And drift and selection are both processes that bring out new traits while reducing genetic diversity.
Just as in the geology discussions, as long as you ignore reality your views will remain farcically wrong.
It's your bizarre straw man versions of my arguments that are farcically wrong. You have been doing a truly amazing job of getting it wrong for some time now. Let's see, the last one I answered was the idea that I CHOOSE sexual recombination as the basis for creating new traits over the novel mutations, or something like that. Oh well.

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Message 341 of 1034 (726296)
05-08-2014 1:56 AM
Reply to: Message 339 by NoNukes
05-07-2014 10:52 PM


Re: and I still say (macro) evolution is impossible
Good grief, NN, gene flow IS a standard term you should find in any description of population genetics, it simply describes the keeping up of genetic communication between populations so that there isn't complete reproductive isolation for any of them, so the population isn't totally confined to its own gene pool.
When I describe my favorite scenario I avoid the common situations where there is continued gene flow or reintroduction of formerly split-off populations, or hybrid zones and all that because all that confuses the basic fact of developing traits with reduced genetic diversity. This occurs in all those situations too, the continued supply of new genes just making the process more drawn out and harder to describe. Mutations too would just act as more gene flow which makes the processes I'm describing follow a more complicated path.
To get a clearcut new population in the wild the same as you would a new breed, you have to have isolation of the selected traits, whether randomly or naturally selected doesn't matter, and this process is always accompanied by reduced genetic diversity, even if it takes longer has more ups and downs before it gets there in the wild.
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Message 342 of 1034 (726297)
05-08-2014 2:04 AM
Reply to: Message 340 by PaulK
05-08-2014 1:20 AM


Re: and I still say (macro) evolution is impossible
But it is the kind of situation I've been describing all along that is the basis for breeds and subspecies. These require limiting the numbers of individuals, you aren't going to get breeds or species unless you do that and the result is always new traits with less genetic diversity. So of course I'm going to use this kind of example, it's the one I've been using all along. The numbers don't have to be so drastically limited, but they do have to be changed from the parent population so you get the new allele frequencies that bring out the new traits.
But if you care about the truth you must accept the fact that the situations you choose are exaggerated and represent only a small fraction of the lifetime of a successful species. You cannot simply assume that nothing else matters.
I'm focused on the ACTIVELY EVOLVING part of a species' life, whatever else matters isn't what I'm talking about. To get a NEW species is what I'm describing. That is when we see the reduced genetic diversity. And since creating new species one would think was THE main thing for (macro) evolution it's obviously the place to focus.
What I'm describing is streamlined, reality can be a lot messier, but that's why I keep pointing back to domestic breeding where the same processes aren't so messy because they can be controlled. In the wild complete reproductive isolation CAN occur but it often doesn't, and so the situation is messier and harder to track, but the same principles must apply there too.
But I guess that pretending that your argument is good is more important to you than being honest. How else could you continue such an obvious pretense for years ?
No pretense at all, I'm totally committed to this argument.

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Message 343 of 1034 (726298)
05-08-2014 2:11 AM
Reply to: Message 337 by NoNukes
05-07-2014 9:24 PM


Re: and I still say (macro) evolution is impossible
Perhaps that's too blunt. The phenomenon of genetic drift, something Faith always ignores, means that a genetic characteristic might occupy a substantial portion of the original population before circumstances arise which allow that trait to present a selection advantage. And only then does the opportunity for speciation occur. Because of that, we don't need to postulate that we must isolate tiny numbers of individuals, nor do we need to assume that the mutation arrives just in the nick of time.
I don't expect to ever convince you Faith. I am just providing logical reasons why you are failing to convince us.
I don't ignore genetic drift and have described it many times in this very discussion or the same discussion on the other thread about the Grants. It's how you get the same situation I'm describing occurring within a larger population. I focus on the situation that normally occurs in a separate geographically isolated population, but due to other factors it also occurs within a larger population by some kind of random selection factors. I've mentioned this a number of times just in the discussion here over the last few days so to claim I'm ignoring it is a total misrepresentation.
It may take the physical isolation for speciation to occur, but that isn't going to change anything in the argument I've been making here, it should simply illustrate it further.
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Message 347 of 1034 (726302)
05-08-2014 5:41 AM
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05-08-2014 2:56 AM


genetic drift
When you require tiny populations having a trait, then you have ignored the fact that drift can produce large populations having a trait within an even larger population.
You can say what you will, but you are not taking drift into account.
("Populations having a trait???")
The "tiny populations" in my scenarios are not all that tiny, they are simply populations that are SMALLER THAN THE PARENT POPULATION when they split off,l not necessarily "tiny." Such daughter populations rapidly increase in size in their own niche. Genetic drift can occur there too.
Again, genetic drift is just another of the same methods I'm talking about, a method that selects and reproductively isolates. It would produce not just "a trait" of its own but the usual collection of traits because it too has its own set of allele frequencies.
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Message 348 of 1034 (726303)
05-08-2014 5:44 AM
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05-08-2014 2:25 AM


Re: and I still say (macro) evolution is impossible
I haven't ignored anything that contributes to evolution.

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Message 349 of 1034 (726304)
05-08-2014 5:46 AM
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05-08-2014 2:45 AM


Re: Walking Requires Staying In The Same Place
That is a post that deserves a week's suspension.
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Message 350 of 1034 (726305)
05-08-2014 5:47 AM
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03-06-2013 8:31 PM


Re: Jeer bait
deleted. old post
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Message 351 of 1034 (726307)
05-08-2014 5:59 AM
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05-07-2014 9:34 PM


Re: And what would convince you Faith?
Macroevolution is speciation and the formation of nested hierarchies.
This has been observed.
Nested hierarchies beyond the known genetically related groups are pure mental constructs, fantasies, arrangements on the basis of subjectively assessed morphologies. No, they have not been "observed" merely imagined.
Since genetic diversity is reduced by the processes of evolution, the selection and isolation of traits, you cannot get evolution beyond the Species or Kind.
This means that your saying that "(macro) evolution is impossible" cannot be true.
An imaginative construct says my evidence from observable living things can't be true, eh? I've even many times given a laboratory test for it. If I were in a position to set it up I'd have done it some time ago.
... These require limiting the numbers of individuals, you aren't going to get breeds or species unless you do that ...
Black pocket mice. Twice.
A few black mice within the white mouse population get selected, there's your smaller number of individuals. They take up residence on the lava and are able to survive and reproduce on the lava so their population grows while any white mice that are with them die off and their alleles with them; and now you have a new subspecies of black mice.
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Message 355 of 1034 (726324)
05-08-2014 9:22 AM
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05-08-2014 6:04 AM


Re: and I still say (macro) evolution is impossible
I've explained what happens to genetic increase.

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Message 356 of 1034 (726325)
05-08-2014 9:25 AM
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05-08-2014 7:00 AM


Re: genetic drift
The twelve was not a typical example, I used it to get across to you what hasn't been getting across. Now you're making it my typical case. it's not.
If you don't like the dog breeding kind of numbers consider cattle breeding which in the beginning was from herds taken from the larger wild herds and isolated so that they developed characteristic new traits of their own. It could have been a fairly large number of founders for some domesticated herds.

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Message 359 of 1034 (726328)
05-08-2014 9:29 AM
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05-08-2014 8:51 AM


Re: And what would convince you Faith?
Yes I realize that any division of a population makes smaller numbers. Over my many many posts on this argument I've been clear about that too.
If the black mice occurred within the white population they were still a smaller population there, and no doubt prey while they were there.
You have noticed speciation and nested hierarchies but you have not noticed them beyond the Kind, that part is all imagination.
Definitional arguments are just game-playing.

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