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To: staytrue
If Quantum Mechanics was around in Darwin’s time and if he had studied it, he would know evolution not to be gradual and that every once in a while a rare combination of mutations would lead to the quantum leap.

You're using the popular trope 'quantum leap' to mean a sudden and dramatic change; that's not the meaning of the term in QM. A quantum leap is usually the smallest possible change in the state of a particle.

8 posted on 07/16/2013 6:15:47 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: eclecticEel

Darwin’s original theory is about slow continuous change. Quantum theory is about discontinuity.


10 posted on 07/16/2013 8:19:59 PM PDT by staytrue
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