To: Right Wing Professor
Pardon me, but are you seriously suggesting that random selection, and inherited variation, are not 2 chance events?
Okay...
44 posted on
11/04/2005 7:40:08 AM PST by
mikeus_maximus
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To: mikeus_maximus
"Pardon me, but are you seriously suggesting that random selection, and inherited variation, are not 2 chance events?"
There is no such thing as *random selection*. Natural selection is the exact opposite of random. *Random selection* is a creationist talking point but it has no relation to evolution or what evolutionary biologists have proposed.
46 posted on
11/04/2005 7:49:51 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: mikeus_maximus
Pardon me, but are you seriously suggesting that random selection, and inherited variation, are not 2 chance events? Neither selection nor inheritance is random.
50 posted on
11/04/2005 8:02:06 AM PST by
Right Wing Professor
(If you love peace, prepare for war. If you hate violence, own a gun.)
To: mikeus_maximus
"Pardon me, but are you seriously suggesting that random selection, and inherited variation, are not 2 chance events? "
How do you define a selection that is random and
how do you define a variation that is inherited?
Another red herring again?
Putting together two separated evolutionary processes in one is a straw-man.
51 posted on
11/04/2005 8:03:37 AM PST by
MHalblaub
(Tell me in four more years (No, I did not vote for Kerry))
To: mikeus_maximus
Random selection? Random selection? What the heck is random selection?
81 posted on
11/04/2005 9:29:29 AM PST by
b_sharp
(Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
To: mikeus_maximus
what do you mean by "random selection"?
I am familiar with random mutation, and environmental (and other) selective pressures - which are not entirely unpatterened - but not "random selection"
I don't believe I have ever seen "random selection" described by an evolutionary scientist, geneticist, or biologist as part of the process of heritance and speciation.
please, by all means, explain: what exactly do you believe "random selection" means?
92 posted on
11/04/2005 10:16:01 AM PST by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: mikeus_maximus
...random selection... As Bob Hope in the classic western Son of Paleface said to a couple of special effect buzzards/penguins ... "You're making it ridiculous!"
178 posted on
11/04/2005 1:58:58 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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