Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Feb. 19 2009,19:33) | You're right.
I posted the last few papers in that list in a rush. I was in the process of making up a list of relevant papers and I stumbled upon those and browsed through them. Then my daughter needed to use the computer so I just posted it.
I should have just deleted it instead. I stand by Davison's semi-meiosis and the Soltis and Soltis paper. The rest are not vetted. |
Your papers are ALL non-responsive to my (and Albatrossity's) question.
You said "mechanism is the unsettled point." You reject current mechanisms and claim an alternative. What I want to see is YOUR understanding of that alternative.
Don't point us to papers that present differing mechanisms that have nothing to do with each other nor anything to do with the example at hand (chimps and bonobos from a common ancestor). That's throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Write up YOUR understanding of the mechanism you are advancing as superior to current theory.
Your proposed mechanism should offer an explanation for the timing of saltational events, including divergence of a single population into separate species, the distribution of features among the daughter species, their progressive differentiation, the fact of their adaptation to changing environmental circumstances, and so forth.
Just a sketch.
So far as I am concerned, if you can't articulate an argument, you don't understand it.
With respect to human evolution, you have argued that properties like speech, language, redundancy, culture, powerful learning abilities and design are evidence that human beings arose through special creation. Why is that? After all, for months you have argued that complex biological systems cannot arise by means of selection and instead must have arisen through processes like the saltational triggering of supernaturally frontloaded design - processes that compel the conclusion of common descent.
Why does the emergence of human speech, culture, learning ability, etc. require an even greater leap (relative to the ancestor we share with chimps and bonobos), than, say, your favorite example of a complex system, the Krebs cycle? A leap that requires rejection of even those processes you have so tediously argued to date - e.g., supernatural frontloading, saltation, etc. - and demands a separate, superdupernatural special creation?
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