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To: Dimensio
In that case, there are very good odds that amongst all the reproduction going on at any given time that there will be beneficial mutations.

No, there isn't.

134 posted on 11/02/2003 2:04:01 PM PST by milan
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To: milan
No, there isn't.

Support for this assertion?
137 posted on 11/02/2003 2:34:58 PM PST by Dimensio (The only thing you feel when you take a human life is recoil. -- Frank "Earl" Jones)
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To: milan
No, there isn't.

You've been given, via link, examples of beneficial mutations. Now you're engaged in the virtual equivalent of holding your hands over your ears and intoning, "nah, nah, nah, nah; I can't hear you."

Furthermore, even ignoring directly or immediately beneficial mutations -- which nevertheless do occur, as has been proved to you -- the majority of mutations are neutral. Their accumulation within a specie's genome builds up a genetic diversity which is in itself beneficial, providing for future adaptive shifts, differential disease resistance, and the like.

142 posted on 11/02/2003 5:15:25 PM PST by Stultis
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