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Author Topic:   Page v. Borger
derwood
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Message 91 of 92 (33540)
03-03-2003 10:26 AM


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Peter
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Message 92 of 92 (33558)
03-03-2003 3:22 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by Black
01-28-2003 8:02 AM


Your missing the point about the meaning of 'random'
in the context of this discussion.
Peter Borger considers that the mutations are non-random
because there are areas of the DNA that have a statistically
higher probability of suffering copying errors than others.
He attributes to the term non-random the meaning of deterministic.
Random in the context of evolutionary biology means that we
cannot predict in advance when a mutation will occur, nor
what effect that mutation will have on the organism (if any).
That there is a mechanism that mitigates copy errors is good for
ToE in that it undermines all of the 'mutations are bad' line
of argument (if it needed any undermining!)

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