ericmurphy
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See, Dave, it really doesn't matter whether you, personally, think that recombination can add information to a genome. The point is, we know for a fact, absolutely beyond dispute, that one way or another information does, in fact, get added to genomes. Unless you think that going from 10 alleles to 627 alleles for the same gene doesn't involve information being added to the genome.
One way or another, you've got to explain where it came from. And, you need to find evidence that it can happen in 4,500 years. As Lenny pointed out,
| Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Jan. 01 2007,14:47) | | Since less than 1% of observed mutations are beneficial (the vast majority of mutations are indeed deleterious or neutral and have no effect), that means for every beneficial mutation which added a new allele, there should have been roughly 99 others which did not. So to give us roughly 400 beneficial mutations would require somewhere around 40,000 total mutations, a rate of approximately 100 mutations in each locus EVERY YEAR, or 2,000 mutations per locus for EACH GENERATION. Do you know what we call people who experience mutation rates that high? We call them "cancer victims". The only people with mutation rates even remotely comparable were victims of Chernobyl. |
I know you hate difficult questions, Dave, especially when they're from me (whom you have accused, evidently without a scrap of evidence, of lying and misrepresenting your position). But do you think you could manage to answer this one little problem for your "hypothesis" before you turn into a pumpkin?
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