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To: PatrickHenry

RussP wrote:

If 1,000 harmful mutations occur for every beneficial one, then how can natural selection select the beneficial one without getting many more of the bad ones along with it?

PatrickHenry replied:

It's blindingly simple. If the individual survives and breeds, it's been "selected."

RussP replies:

And which mutations have been selected? The one good one along with 1000 bad ones? How does that produce a net gain in fitness to survive?


1,011 posted on 12/28/2004 7:16:54 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
The one good one along with 1000 bad ones?

This is imposed from where? Your reading of Spetner?

Keep borin' in, man! That strawman can't last more than three or four more rounds. Watch out for his right hand!

1,014 posted on 12/28/2004 7:21:42 PM PST by VadeRetro
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