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To: Southack

Try reading what I say. I never ruled out the accumulation of changes. I merely said that evolution works on small changes at a time.

There is nothing wrong with your math. You have the correct number of possible permutations.

The problem is with your model of what is happening. The hand is not reshuffled for each generation.


660 posted on 07/10/2006 12:44:39 PM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138
"The problem is with your model of what is happening. The hand is not reshuffled for each generation."

The problem is not with my model, the issue instead resides in the question of randomness or external bias.

If mutations are random, then there may be no mutations in a given child, or 1 mutation, or thousands. A deck might not be shuffled at all...it might have a single card moved...or it might be shuffled entirely.

However, it would be an **arbitrary** restriction to claim that only 1 mutation happens at a time.

Arbitrary restrictions are strong indicators of external bias, not randomness, by the way.

661 posted on 07/10/2006 12:49:50 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: js1138
I merely said that evolution works on small changes at a time.

And this can be proven how? Why on small changes? Is this because it is the only answer to evolution? I believe so. By making it happen over millions of years anything can be interjected into the program at any time and the populace is supposed to be in awe how learned people can reach such hypothesis.

684 posted on 07/11/2006 9:28:55 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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