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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 01 2010,22:09   

Quote (REC @ Oct. 01 2010,15:57)
Sal could use a lesson in reading comprehension, honesty, or both.

His first post takes a paper that claims that because humans in industrialized comfy societies aren't exposed to the selective pressures they were in the past, we're headed for genetic catastrophe.

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This clearly falsifies what?

In the second, a long-term experiment where Drosophila were selectively bred (evolving novel traits!), scientists were surprised to find the evolved alleles didn't fix (become 100%). Sal advises us this falsifies Darwinism.

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My guess is Sal doesn't know what fixation means. He defines it as "Newly appearing good traits in a single individual will rarely get infused (or “fixed” ) into a population" and then goes on about likelyhoods of positive alleles evolving. Dumb. Didn't read the paper, did you?  Anyway, there are a number of reasons why alleles might emerge, but not fix-vigor of a heterozygote, advantage of maintaining diversity, gene flow, etc....

And he is the most grotesquely self-congratulating idiot I've ever seen. My prediction confirmed in Nature, read it and weep. What a jackass....

Since the "m" in experimetal was lost your second link is dead. Here's the correct one.

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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."

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