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To: Captain Pike
"But when there *is* a survival value the selection process does contribute to passing on the mutation because the critter survies to reproduce, and thus information is accumulated."

Mathematically untenable, with a probability of something like 1 in 10^400 or so. ('impossible' to the 20th power)

130 posted on 04/07/2008 8:53:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: editor-surveyor
["But when there *is* a survival value the selection process does contribute to passing on the mutation because the critter survies to reproduce, and thus information is accumulated."] Mathematically untenable, with a probability of something like 1 in 10^400 or so. ('impossible' to the 20th power)

Biologists disagree.

157 posted on 04/08/2008 6:03:24 PM PDT by Captain Pike
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