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Author Topic:   More Evidence of Evolution - Geomyidae and Geomydoecus
Wounded King
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Message 30 of 96 (389016)
03-10-2007 3:50 AM
Reply to: Message 29 by MartinV
03-10-2007 2:07 AM


Re: contradicting the source
From this almost infinite all possible mutations (1 mutation of nucleotide in given sequence, two mutation or 10 mutations but on different places etc...) only one was picked by natural selection. All others should be detrimental while weren't picked.
This is a baseless assumption. Just because only 1 particular beneficial mutation ocurred and was subsequently selected doesn't mean that that was the only mutation in the whole available genetic phase space which could be beneficial and it certainly doesn't mean that all others would be detrimental.
TTFN,
WK

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Wounded King
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Message 91 of 96 (392530)
04-01-2007 4:14 AM
Reply to: Message 88 by crashfrog
03-31-2007 12:27 AM


Goo to you
I believe the full phrase is 'From goo to you via the zoo' and it is extensively used, and I assume coined, by Jonathan Sarfati.
TTFN,
WK

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Wounded King
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Message 96 of 96 (393471)
04-05-2007 10:39 AM
Reply to: Message 94 by MartinV
04-01-2007 2:59 PM


You can't keep a good fly down.
genus Drosophila is old, it arose during Eocene.
Indeed and it is now constituted of something like 1,400 species. Not too shabby really since the class Mammalia only has something like 5,800 extant species and arose during the Triassic.
TTFN,
WK
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