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Chiroptera
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Message 9 of 50 (101600)
04-21-2004 4:17 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by redwolf
04-21-2004 3:50 PM


I love it when creationists think that they are capable of making probability arguments.
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The problem is that evolution, regardless of stripe or flavor, demands that we stand everything we know about probability theory on its head and believe that, whenever any sort of a question of the theories of Chuck Darwin of Steve Gould come up, the laws of probability get stood on their heads and reversed.
Can we see you make the necessary calculations to show that everything we know about probability is reversed? Probability is mathematics, so if you are going to make a statement about probability you should be able to show us the calculations. Or reference your source. I mean the source that actually does the calculations; I don't want to hunt down some obscure creationist tract only to find that they simply say "according to probability theory" without doing the calculations, either.

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Chiroptera
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Message 12 of 50 (101607)
04-21-2004 4:51 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by redwolf
04-21-2004 4:29 PM


From the link:
A number of mathematicians, familiar with the biological problems, spoke at that 1966 Wistar Institute. They clearly refuted neo-Darwinianism in several areas, and showed that its "fitness" and "adaptation" theories were tautologouslittle more than circular reasoning.
This old argument? Needless to say, I didn't bother to read further. I am sure that the mouths of the biologists weren't gaping due to shock - they were yawning.

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Chiroptera
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Message 15 of 50 (101646)
04-21-2004 6:24 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by redwolf
04-21-2004 6:18 PM


This is an example of a beneficial mutation. This mutated version of the Apo-AI reduces the risk of arteriosclerosis. All of the probability calculations in the world cannot erase real-life data.

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