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You are supposing a lot and your explanation is all gobbledygook.

You can't help yourself, can you? If you continue with the 'gobbledygook' crap this will be my last reply.

Use your so called theory if you like, but answer the question: why did the coelacanth stop evolving, stop mutating for 400 million years (note also that it did not de-volve either).

First of all it didn't stop mutating, why would it? Its evolution didn't go far because the mutations didn't result in better fitness. It was adapted to its environment. Environment didn't change much. That's it. What do you want me to do? Go back in time and put more salt in the ocean?

One thing you also need to explain about your fantastic theory is how the parameters for a particular species are measured as well as how the formulas were derived and tested.

I don't know how to a species' fitness function might be calculated - there are a whole lot of parameters (genes) and it's difficult to predict the fitness value of a particular gene combination. But the point is that such function exists. For particular environment any combination of genes results in some fitness value (0 most of the time). I tried to show how this function might look with one parameter. But it doesn't matter how many there are - there will be local maxima high enough for species to get stuck there until environment tweaks the function to make it easier for the species to 'escape'.