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To: Leto; VadeRetro; Junior

several inaccuracies...
1. Abiogenesis is not a part of the theory of speciation through mutation and selection known colloquially as "the theory of evolution"
2. Random mutation is one described and statistically predictable (meaning: given a large population of operant genetic samples, a known period of time, and known environmental factors, the rate of mutation is predictable even though the precise loci of individual mutations cannot be predicted) mechanism. Another is polyploidy. Another is viral insertion.
3. you evidently do not understand the second law of thermodynamics, and misapply it in your starting assumptions.
4. there is no censorship of ID - there is open dissection, analysis, and rebuttal of it as non-science. It has no positive data, describes no mechanism, makes no predictions, and is not falsifiable.


55 posted on 11/13/2005 8:28:10 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: King Prout
We could also mention that "this part of biology" [evolution] is the central unifying theory of it. "Nothing in biology makes sense" without it in Dobzhansky's phrase.
60 posted on 11/13/2005 8:36:42 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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