Patrick
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Joined: July 2011
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DrBot responds to Joseph and shows UD what reality looks like:
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I’m not aware of anything in evolutionary theory that says that the goal of reproduction is an exact copy. What is required for evolution to happen is actually reproduction with variance, so genetic changes serve a purpose – i.e. they are not accidents, mistakes or errors in the sense that they are unintended – but they are all random with respect to fitness.
There is an important difference between randomly generated, but necessary, variety and just unwanted errors.
Evolution depends on variety so by definition variety in its self is not an error, or to put it another way – you don’t understand evolutionary theory.
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That's gonna leave a mark.
(Emphasis mine.)
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