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To: MHalblaub
Another red herring again?

Department of Redundacy Department? :) In any event, I'm afraid I don't see your point about "putting together two spearted evolutionary processes in one." What one? Reading that it seems like you had to work overtime to try to come up with some way to use another logical fallacy epithet, which is someting evo-groupies like to do as opposed to, say, actually discussing the issues. It's next on the list right after "launch ad hominem attack" as a way to quash debate.

In any event, the probability of two independat processes both occuring is even more damning for your side, don't you think? The improbablity expands algebraically. Thanks for helping to make my point.:)

61 posted on 11/04/2005 8:45:49 AM PST by mikeus_maximus (Voting for "the lesser of two evils" is still evil.)
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To: mikeus_maximus
In any event, I'm afraid I don't see your point about "putting together two spearted evolutionary processes in one."

See my post #54.

63 posted on 11/04/2005 8:48:24 AM PST by Antonello
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To: mikeus_maximus
In any event, the probability of two independat processes both occuring is even more damning for your side, don't you think?

Actually, there aren't two processes, there are four (selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift). But they aren't independent. They are directly interrelated. Mutation is random on the individual level, but it is guided by natural selection, which is inherently non-random and purpose-driven.

64 posted on 11/04/2005 8:50:32 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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To: mikeus_maximus
In any event, the probability of two independat processes both occuring is even more damning for your side, don't you think? The improbablity expands algebraically. Thanks for helping to make my point.:)

Or two red herrings stink four times as badly as one.

66 posted on 11/04/2005 8:55:05 AM PST by Right Wing Professor (If you love peace, prepare for war. If you hate violence, own a gun.)
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