All the responses made after my last post are boiling down to one hidden assumption, and that is that evolution jumps from one bio-functional solution to another. Well, here's the news. This hidden assumption is deeply flawed and it doesn't have any basis in reality because bio-structures exist as tiny clusters of bio-functionality in a vast empty space of non-functionality. ...
Actually that assumption is deeply flawed because it is completely wrong and in no way reflects how evolution actually works.
Curiously, I told you earlier that you need to learn how evolution actually works and suggested an easy way to learn:
Berkeley Evolution 101: An Introduction to Evolution.
Doing so would stop you from making silly mistakes like this. It astounds me how many creationists/IDologists think they have proof that evolution doesn't work, and yet have no clue how it actually works.
But the problem arises when one tries to leave the island in order to find(extract bio-functionality) other islands(new protein folds or new organs), and find itself in a vast empty space of non-functionality - in an ocean. ...
And again, this is not how evolution actually works, it is more along the lines of a happy accident: a change in DNA sequence occurs and it has 3 possible outcomes:
- it causes the organism to die,
- it doesn't cause the organism to die, but does nothing for it either, or
- it improves the ability of the organism to survive and reproduce.
The first are called deleterious mutations, and by causing the death of the organism they cull themselves from the reproductive gene pool.
The second are called neutral mutations, junk DNA, etc. and can continue to exist and even spread (via genetic drift) within the reproductive gene pool.
The third are called beneficial mutations, and because they improve the ability of the organism to survive and reproduce, they spread by natural selection within the reproductive gene pool.
Further such changes can occur in the second and third groups, but not in the first, obviously.
When a neutral mutation later interacts with another mutation and results in a beneficial mutation is how two step mutations can result in a beneficial mutation.
In this sense every living organism is a laboratory experimenting with small changes. Do you have any idea how many living organisms cover the earth today? Do you know how many generations of such laboratories have existed since life began on earth?
Evolution does not go looking for new proteins, it happens (stumbles) upon them by the happy accident of beneficial mutations.
This is why the actual processes of evolution disprove your argument of incredulity from massive numbers of actually irrelevant proteins.
You have two choices:
First, accept that you are wrong and go learn what evolution is actually about, or
Second, deny or ignore this fact and continue to assert a false argument. Just remember that there are four types of people that don't accept evolution (based on Dawkins' article "ignorance is not a crime"):
- Stupid -- can't understand the processes,
- Ignorant -- unaware of the actual processes of evolution (a condition that is curable with education),
- Deceitful -- lying about or misrepresenting the actual processes of evolution, and
- Deluded -- ranging from stark raving mad down to being deluded by a deceitful person into believing a false narrative (a condition that is also curable with education, but it also requires a willingness to abandon the deceitful narrative in pursuit of truth). People who are "willfully ignorant" fall into this last class.
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