The Cost of Substitution [possible REPOST]


[moderator's note: I'm sure I posted this already, but it
popped up in the queue again today, so to be on the safe side,
I'm posting it again. - JAH]

John Edser wrote (Nov 16, 2:30 pm):

As things stand, I will not submit a paper for publication to
any journal controlled by what I consider to be a corrupted
evolutionary theory establishment. I cite the rejection of
ReMine's paper "Cost Theory and the Cost of Substitution
- a clarification" as an example particularly relevant
to sbe because this issue has been debated here at some
length. Here is the website created by ReMine to discuss
this matter (from his own perspective):

http://www1.minn.net/~science/Felsenstein_comments.htm

I agree with ReMine that the cost of substitution cannot be zero.

Thank you John.

I've been coming here many years, pointing out the contradictions in
the evolutionary literature over the cost of substitution. I've been
challenging evolutionists to address it, and resolve it, one way or the
other: Either the cost of substitution is zero, or it isn't. Yet
evolutionists do not resolve it, nor clarify it. They allow the
confusion to thrive.

Here at sci.bio.evolution, John Edser and I are now perhaps the only
two on record as saying Felsenstein's notion of "zero cost of
substitution" is: confusion, useless, or false -- take your pick.

We are joined (implicitly) by evolutionary geneticists James Crow and
Warren Ewens, who publicly acknowledge my paper on the Cost of
Substitution is correct, which places them in contradiction to Joe
Felsenstein. Though none of the three have addressed their
contradictions in print Moreover, all three have suppressed
clarifications of the matter from their journals. So the confusion
still thrives -- and this newsgroup is an example of it.

Again I call on sci.bio.evolution to resolve the controversy over the
cost of substitution and Haldane's Dilemma.

See my paper at:
http://SaintPaulScience.com/CostTheory1.pdf

-- Walter ReMine
http://SaintPaulScience.com/Haldane.htm
http://creationwiki.org/Haldane%27s_Dilemma


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Relevant Pages

  • The Cost of Substitution
    ... evolutionary theory establishment. ... ReMine's paper "Cost Theory and the Cost of Substitution ... I agree with ReMine that the cost of substitution cannot be zero. ... evolutionists do not resolve it, ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: The Cost of Substitution [possible REPOST]
    ... ReMine's paper "Cost Theory and the Cost of Substitution ... I agree with ReMine that the cost of substitution cannot be zero. ... evolutionists do not resolve it, ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: The cost of substitution
    ... > The cost of substitution is the central concept in one of evolution's ... he did was claim that he HAD clarified it but that those evil evolutionists ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: The cost of substitution
    ... >The cost of substitution is the central concept in one of evolution's ... recombination between them could have substitution proceed independently. ... evolutionists couldn't solve Haldane's Dilemma, ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: Reproductive excess model
    ... When it comes to Cost Theory and the cost of ... substitution, evolutionists ALLOW confusion to thrive. ... I say, start with the simplest matters first, and RESOLVE SOMETHING! ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
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