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Author Topic:   The Origin of Novelty
Bolder-dash
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Message 1 of 2 (689721)
02-03-2013 11:45 PM


I believe one of the biggest failures of the evolution camp is their inability to elucidate any plausible chain of events that leads to a new novel feature, which can be seen in modern animals.
The theory about how new novel features have arisen, such as eyes, or noses, or internal organs, always are explained as taking thousands, millions of years, and thus are not easy to see. But in order for this to make sense, you need to propose a realistic scenario of how this can occur. I think your side severely lacks the ability to do so.
All of the arguments against irreducible complexity propose suggesting that any new novel feature which appears irreducibly complex, could easily have had another usage in an earlier time. So all these features were at one time some other useful feature. But at some point you can't always use the excuse that it was something else, at some point you must be able to say what an original use was, before it was adapted from some other use. What was a nose before it was a nose? How did it start. How did a hand start?
If you say that it was a useless mutation, that eventually gained usefulness and then caused an increase in survivability, I think it is incumbent on your side to give a example, a reasonable pathway.
Everyone of these mutations that started out as harmless defects can't have only happened in the past. If this is the pathway to all animal features, the mutations must be continuing today. What are some plausible examples of how this could happen in modern animals, starting from scratch?
Edited by Admin, : Change title from "Plausible Examples" to "The Origin of Novelty".

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02-04-2013 9:08 AM


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