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Author Topic:   A barrier to macroevolution & objections to it
skepticfaith
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Message 115 of 303 (348867)
09-13-2006 4:43 PM


What did they know in 1912 about mutations?
I have just read an interesting story on evolution ..
I think evolutionists will find this quite fascinating too:
http://www.worldwideschool.org/...toryofEvolution/chap8.html
Somewhere in the middle they mention mutations as in Mendelism (or Mutationism). Is the modern school of Darwinism an offshoot of this line of thinking?
Clearly, they did not know then what scientists know now, but they still talk about mutations.
So my question is: when were the first mutations successfully observed and did scientists ever acknowledge a barrier or was it always assumed that none existed and that this process can carry on indefinitely on changing populations.

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