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To: SirLinksalot
If this indicates the typical rate of occurrence of double mutations, then the Darwinian transformation of our pre-chimp ancestor into homo sapiens, which would have required at least some double mutations, would have taken at least a thousand trillion years, a time span greater than the age of the universe.

How bout this, Evolution occurs, God nudges it along.

2 posted on 08/21/2007 10:00:09 AM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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To: Paradox
How bout this, Evolution occurs, God nudges it along.

That's Behe's position to a degree. He's saying evolution has limits (hence the "Edge of Evolution")

6 posted on 08/21/2007 10:06:08 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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To: Paradox
How bout this, Evolution occurs, God nudges it along.

An old argument, generally taken as a "have your cake and eat it, too" sort of approach.
44 posted on 08/21/2007 4:28:40 PM PDT by aruanan
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