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To: Gondring

Fruit flies breed new generations every oher day; that was the entire point. Those experiments involved more generations of fruit flies than there have ever been of humans or “proto-humans” on this planet.


141 posted on 05/25/2008 2:10:29 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
Fruit flies breed new generations every oher day; that was the entire point. Those experiments involved more generations of fruit flies than there have ever been of humans or “proto-humans” on this planet.

Yes, but they were not exposed to countless millenia of environmental exposures that could have influenced them. For example, once upon a time, some insect might have landed on fresh tar oozing from the ground, thus becoming exposed to polyaromatic hydrocarbons that could be mutagenic. I doubt that happened in the lab.

Remember, even buying 1,000,000 losing lottery tickets wouldn't mean there's no likely winner in a lottery that's SO huge. Nature has drawn countless zillions of times.

186 posted on 05/26/2008 9:56:52 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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