The pantless Wells responds with a full "moon".
Gishlick and other defenders of Darwinian evolution should take no comfort from my mistake. In light of the UCSD researchers’ actual results, their claim to have discovered a "general mechanism for producing major leaps in evolutionary change" is even more exaggerated than I originally thought.
"Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You kin barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it, - but you cain't turn it into a fruit fly."
- with apologies to Bubba in "Forrest Gump"
Based on the wording of the press release and McGinnis’s matter-of-fact statement, I assumed that the UCSD scientists had produced a mutant shrimp without hind legs. I then argued that this would not justify the researchers’ claim to have discovered a "general mechanism for producing major leaps in evolutionary change," since it takes a lot more to turn a shrimp into a fruit fly than eliminating a few legs.Not the full Monty but the full brazen. The press release (Gasp!) preceded the publication of the full study by a day.
Because the Discovery Institute is doing PR, not science, and they had to respond to the press release on the same day--"War Room" tactics--they were forced to guess what the heck the study had done.
But nobody should take comfort in Wells's mistake. Science still hasn't made a fly out of a shrimp.
Yep. Ol' Jonathan sure gave evo science the two-by-four up the head on that one.