Daniel Smith
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| Quote (JAM @ Feb. 26 2009,16:28) | | Quote (Daniel Smith @ Feb. 14 2009,19:24) | | This is all pretty neat and tidy - don't you think? |
It seems very messy to me, but then I do biology for a living. Since you think it's so neat and tidy, why don't you become a biologist and show us how neat and tidy it is?
| Quote | | A new morphological feature with all of its many complex biochemical processes just falling into place. |
It doesn't just fall into place. It evolves.
| Quote | | So, do you think evolution normally works this way? |
No, you nincompoop. The norm is that it doesn't work this way, and you don't see the failures because they are selected against.
This is a fundamental concept that you fail to grasp.
| Quote | | It sure seems a lot more like the "unfolding of pre-existing rudiments" than "selection acting on random variation" - wouldn't you say? |
Nope. I wouldn't say that the selection is acting on "random variation," as the variation is only random wrt fitness. Why do you keep using that tired old straw man? |
Do you even know what I was referring to in those quotes JAM?
Why did you snip out all the relevant context?
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