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To: SirLinksalot

I wonder if anyone read this article that is attacking it. It was hard to get through because of poor writing but seems to make sense as far as its main point goes.


14 posted on 10/15/2007 9:40:10 AM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Greg F
I wonder if anyone read this article that is attacking it

I read it and it does not make sense. It seems that the author doesn't understand that multiple traits can come from the same chromosome. If an important trait is selected (for or against) then the other traits "come along for the ride". Nothing mysterious about this.

15 posted on 10/15/2007 10:11:52 AM PDT by citizenmike
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To: Greg F

I would make a detailed explication of the article but it’s Monday and I need to get out and hunt and gather.


16 posted on 10/15/2007 10:13:53 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus ("The stool pigeon is the coming race." - Jack Black, <i>You Can't Win</i>)
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To: Greg F
I wonder if anyone read this article that is attacking it. It was hard to get through because of poor writing but seems to make sense as far as its main point goes.

The article seems to make two main points: 1) that natural selection is limited in what it can select for, because it can only select from phenotypes that are available and 2) that traits can become widespread (or ubiquitous) in a population even when they themselves are not specifically selected for.

Neither point is wrong, but then neither point is new, surprising, original or incompatible with Darwinism.

24 posted on 10/15/2007 11:59:08 AM PDT by Physicist
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