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keiths



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(Permalink) Posted: July 03 2012,01:40   

Denyse is either an irony-blind idiot or a deadpan comic genius.  Regarding the fact that geckos have evolved (and lost) their sticky toes many times, she writes:
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The evasion, of course, is the idea that natural selection, acting on random mutation, somehow just produces the quality as needed, time and again, in the gecko evolutionary tree. They don’t come right out and say that because it would sound too much like magic.        [emphasis and facepalm mine]


Edited by keiths on July 02 2012,23:41

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And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G

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