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JonF
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Message 338 of 530 (529537)
10-09-2009 6:08 PM
Reply to: Message 327 by Percy
10-09-2009 1:10 PM


Re: Some facts that you may not be aware of
Yes, through the years people have found in coal mines all kinds of objects one would normally associate with coal miners and other people.
That "tooth" don't look much like a tooth to me; the roots are way to wide and long in relation to the "body". The first thing I'd ask is "What analysis has been done to prove it's a tooth?".

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Message 413 of 530 (530435)
10-13-2009 1:24 PM
Reply to: Message 406 by greyseal
10-13-2009 8:03 AM


Re: Selection Pressures
Respected, the university researcher may have been, but from what I can tell he wrote a book where he mentioned it rather than a paper about it. Big difference.
Actually, the book is pretty much all about genetic entropy, except the parts that are all about creationist apologetics and YEC PRATTs. It's published by the Feed my Sheep foundation, and it's the only book they publish; take that as whatever you want. There's a fairly long thread in which a poster named VoxRat dissects it chapter by chapter (amidst a lot of chaff) at Another look at "Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome" by Dr. J.C. Sanford.
He's also developed a computer program called Mendel's Accountant, which simulates evolution and has been hailed by many creationists as final proof that evolution doesn't work. It appears that the basic story is that it's set up so that it's impossible for its simulations to show beneficial effects and, surprise surprise, the output never shows beneficial effects. There will probably be a FAQ somewhere Real Soon Now that discusses this in detail, but the seeds of this FAQ are in the Evolutionary Computation thread.

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