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Fine, show me the "Math" that makes it a "certainty". Or show me the number that makes it probable. Until YOU do, all YOU are doing is...GUESSING! You may disagree at my conclusions but you provide no model to work from to support yours when it comes to calculating how many beneficial mutations must have occurred to result in all of the varied life we see on earth today.
Hi Milagros,
I have not read all 10 pages of this thread, and don't really plan to. But I have a couple of questions/comments.
How many "beneficial mutations" do YOU think speciation requires, and how did you derive that number?
Why do you think that speciation
requires beneficial mutations and more importantly, what is the definition of beneficial you are using?
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You base your conclusion on, well since there are SOooooo many species and Sooo many genes within each species then it MUST have occurred. If you cannot provide a model to base your conclusions on then all you are left with is deductive or inductive reasoning.
I predict that any attempt to make such a model would be greeted with extreme skepticism if not scorn from the creationist community as they would find some reason to declare that the numbers favor 'Darwinism' or some such thing, as Walter ReMine has done with regard to Haldane's calculations (though ReMine has not been able to explain in any way how the numbers he used were unrealistic or overly favorable).
So, when you find out how many such mutations are required, you let us know. I am sure that
Nature or
Science would publish your manuscript in a heartbeat.
Personally, I am comfortable in not knowing. Not knowing in part because it is pretty obvious that if such a number even exists, it is highly variable. Highly variable variables don't tend to make nice, clean math.
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