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To: Doctor Stochastic
Your complete and utter faith in natural selection is analogous to the complete and utter faith that 19th Century physicists had in Newton's clockwork universe.

Someday biology will have to make the same quantum leap forward into the information age that physics made into the quantum mechanics age in the 1930s.

When it does, ID will be agent that midwifed the leap.

82 posted on 01/08/2006 10:48:59 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles
Someday biology will have to make the same quantum leap forward into the information age that physics made into the quantum mechanics age in the 1930s. When it does, ID will be agent that midwifed the leap

Sounds like you're holding out hope that the "information gain" argument of IDers will someday hold water. Sorry to disappoint, but Caltech long ago demonstrated that evolution processes can gain information.

But the information age has dramatically helped evolution while being a disappointment for ID. The genome sequencing data that helped find a few thousand Endogenous Retrovirus DNA segments in common between ape and human genomes are the smoking gun proving common ancestry of both species.

It has been badly reported in the media (and posted here on FR) just how important gene sequencing has been for evolution science. Most articles claim that comparisons between chimp and human DNA are such and such percentage identical. IDers can simply claim that's a design feature. But the reality is that we've been able to discover *how* genomes evolve, and side-by-side comparisons of genomes confirm those hypothesis based on evolution theory.

Microbiology, enabled by information technology, has added yet another layer of confirmation onto evolution.

Look it up and weep.

86 posted on 01/08/2006 11:03:33 AM PST by narby (Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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To: JCEccles

Natural selection isn't a matter of faith. It's just an observation. If you die before you have children, your genes will not be passed on. That's all there is to it.


92 posted on 01/08/2006 11:42:16 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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