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Author Topic:   "Microevolution" vs. "macroevolution."
jar
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Message 4 of 63 (300533)
04-03-2006 9:34 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Wounded King
04-03-2006 6:04 AM


One question I have always had...
is whether there is also a component to macro that can only be defined after the fact and when a time gap is also considered.
For example, if we had every single critter in the chain from Lucy to Lucile Ball, and compared each one to the one before and after it in the series, would we see anything but microevolution as we moved along?

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jar
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Message 52 of 63 (301729)
04-06-2006 6:16 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by Faith
04-06-2006 3:26 PM


Not exactly.
But you aren't starting with pennies, you are starting with all the atoms in the universe from which you need to get very specific combinations. Calculate the probability of getting DNA from that.
That's looking at it from the wrong perspective it seems. We are not trying to get DNA. Not really trying to get anything.
IMHO the more reasonable question is "Given all the atoms in the universe what is the possibility that some might combine in a way that leads to replication?"
DNA is just one combination that did happen to work, one of several that we know about so far. There may well be other posibilities, ones we haven't even dreamed of, and there may well be ones that developed but were not as successful as DNA and so fell by the wayside.
But even the revised question is beyond our ability to frame or calculate. We just don't know all of the possibilities, or even all of the conditions possible.
What we do know is that the probability of DNA existing is 1.

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