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Author Topic:   A test for claimed knowledge of how macroevolution occurs
Faith 
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Message 226 of 785 (855104)
06-16-2019 2:31 PM
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06-16-2019 2:24 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
The problem you're having is that you ascribe purpose to everything so the coincidence is shocking to you
Why do people allow themselves to impute motives to others that can't possibly be known? It creates noise in a conversation having to deal with all that error and the error may persist for pages and pages and in fact never be corrected and it comes to be taken for truth no matter how many times it may be corrected.
Oh well.
No, the "problem" I'm having is that I've LEARNED from YOU EV-OS that mutations are RANDOM and beneficial ones VERY RARE. So when I hear that one has conveniently turned up "just in time" to save the day as it were, I have a "problem" thinking of this as a mutation.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

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JonF
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Message 227 of 785 (855105)
06-16-2019 2:35 PM
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06-16-2019 2:31 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
Why do people allow themselves to impute motives to others that can't possibly be known.
You, the most prolific practitioner, don't know?
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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PaulK
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Message 228 of 785 (855106)
06-16-2019 2:36 PM
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06-16-2019 2:31 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
quote:
No, the "problem" I'm having is that I've LEARNED from YOU **** that mutations are RANDOM and beneficial ones RARE. So when I hear that one has conveniently turned up "just in time" to save the day as it were, I have a "problem" thinking of this as a mutation.
I’m not convinced it was “just in time” and I don’t think you have a good idea of the time available either. Besides your extreme bias against mutations has been demonstrated here quite sufficiently.

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Faith 
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Message 229 of 785 (855107)
06-16-2019 2:38 PM
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06-16-2019 2:36 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
Now there's another perfect example of nothing but "noise." You put out a lot of it.
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Tangle
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Message 230 of 785 (855108)
06-16-2019 2:39 PM
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06-16-2019 2:31 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
Faith writes:
I think it’s more to the point to consider the question of how many mutations might have provided the dark colouration. I would be surprised if it were only one. Melanism is not that uncommon.
Uh? Why would it matter to the basic claim (that mutations can be beneficial and be selected for) which gene mutated?
We also know exactly which gene did. Read the paper.

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JonF
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Message 231 of 785 (855109)
06-16-2019 2:39 PM
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06-16-2019 2:31 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
It's very rare for a mutation to show up and save the day. Well over 90% of species are extinct.
Stunningly improbable events happen all the time. State lotteries are sucker bets with horrible odds against winning. Yet people win.

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Tangle
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Message 232 of 785 (855110)
06-16-2019 2:42 PM
Reply to: Message 226 by Faith
06-16-2019 2:31 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
Faith writes:
No, the "problem" I'm having is that I've LEARNED from YOU EV-OS that mutations are RANDOM and beneficial ones VERY RARE. So when I hear that one has conveniently turned up "just in time" to save the day as it were, I have a "problem" thinking of this as a mutation.
But Faith we KNOW it was a mutation. We have the proof. We can show you the gene that mutated. Your choice is to accept the science of show where it's wrong. You can not just have an opinion that it's wrong based on nothing but incredulity.

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Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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PaulK
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Message 233 of 785 (855111)
06-16-2019 2:44 PM
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06-16-2019 2:38 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
quote:
Now there's another perfect example of nothing but "noise." You put out a lot of it.
"
I will point out first that if the “just in time” is part of your assessment it is valid to question that. Compare my reaction to your similar point above.
And it is a fact that you are biased against mutations - to the point where you tried to suggest actual mutations weren’t mutations.

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Faith 
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Message 234 of 785 (855112)
06-16-2019 2:47 PM
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06-16-2019 2:42 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
The problem is that the explanations aren't convincing. Why aren't YOU skeptical of the timing? Not that it could be something other than a mutation but it doesn't fit the usual idea of a mutation and yet you are all just accepting it anyway.

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PaulK
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Message 235 of 785 (855114)
06-16-2019 2:52 PM
Reply to: Message 234 by Faith
06-16-2019 2:47 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
quote:
The problem is that the explanations aren't convincing. Why aren't YOU skeptical of the timing?
I’m not because I am not convinced the timing was that tight, because melanism is fairly common (so likely there are other ways for it to happen) and because unlikely events do happen.
quote:
...it doesn't fit the usual idea of a mutation and yet you are all just accepting it anyway.
But it does fit the “usual idea of a mutation”.

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ringo
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Message 236 of 785 (855117)
06-16-2019 2:59 PM
Reply to: Message 226 by Faith
06-16-2019 2:31 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
Faith writes:
... mutations are RANDOM and beneficial ones VERY RARE.
Do you understand the difference between "rare" and "non-existent"? You seem to keep saying that evolution by beneficial mutation is "impossible" when the truth is that even you understand that it's rare. I think everybody here agrees that it's rare but like lottery wins, it does happen..

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That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo

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AZPaul3
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Message 237 of 785 (855118)
06-16-2019 3:03 PM
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06-16-2019 2:47 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
So you maybe think the genome knew back in 1811 that this mutation was going to be needed in 40 years? And that by 1895 it would cover 95+% of the population?
I suppose that is the kind of majik religionists believe.

Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.

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Message 238 of 785 (855119)
06-16-2019 3:05 PM
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06-16-2019 2:47 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
Faith writes:
Not that it could be something other than a mutation but it doesn't fit the usual idea of a mutation and yet you are all just accepting it anyway.
How would we know what "your usual idea of a mutation" is? Half the time you insist that mutations do not even exist. And why would we pay any attention to what "your usual idea of a mutation" is, when we have data from scientists who study and understand genetics and biology and evolution.
In the papers I have read about it, it fits my idea of mutation perfectly.
Until your fantasy scenario actually describes and explains what is actually seen in the genetics of various organisms no one is going to pay any attention to it.

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PaulK
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Message 239 of 785 (855120)
06-16-2019 3:06 PM
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06-16-2019 3:03 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
95% of the population where? It was 98% in Manchester - a heavily industrial area. I really doubt that it was 95% of the national population.

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Faith 
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Message 240 of 785 (855121)
06-16-2019 3:07 PM
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06-16-2019 3:03 PM


Re: Tracking the route of macroevolution
I was kind of wondering if that was going to come up. A mutation that occurred so much earlier than it was needed raises the question how it could have survived the years when the other color characterized the entire population.
I guess it survived in the two or five percent?
But then I'm back to thinking no mutation was needed at all, just the usual built in variant.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

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