Re: Genomic Instability?


"Alan Meyer" <ameyer2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 4, 3:19 pm, "g" <gillaw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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How can random mutations come up with a linear progression from four toes
to
a hoof in front and three toes to a hoof in the back? When we think long
and hard about it, what were the odds of a whole SERIES of mutations
coming
up with a hoof? Just random chance, huh?
...

Didn't you already answer this one yourself? It's not random chance,
it's natural selection.

Presumably, among the three toed horses, random chance led to some
being born with 2 toes and some with 4. For all we know, there might
have been more born with 4 than with 2. But the ones born with fewer
and larger/stronger toes could run faster and so passed on their genes
more often than the ones with more toes.


If so, I was not aware of it. You see, I have a problem with any model
which explains how something came to be, without explaining how it
occurred... and then answers the question of how we know it came to be, by
way of the model, is because, why gee whiz... because we see the RESULTS, do
we not?

No, seriously. Imagine this. A man shows up for work half an hour each
morning, and would have had to catch an earlier bus than such bus exists to
get to work that early. So when asked how he does it he says, "All I have
to do is say, 'abracadabra.'

After many years, the man dies, and a scientist comes in one day, who has
heard about the man's assertion that he used 'abracadabra.'

He asks the former employees surviving co-workers how they know the man used
'abracadabra.'

"Well," a duly elected spokesman said, "There was no bus that could get the
man here that early; and he owned no automobile; so he had to have been
right."

This scientist, being a bit more skeptical than most, decided to go and ask
some of the man's neighbors how he had gotten to work so early all those
years.

One of the neighbors said, "Right across the road there... in that pasture.
You see that old sway back mule. Harry would straddle him at 4:00 A.M.
every work day and say, 'abracadabra,' and off they would go."

g



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