Re: Floyd, This Is My Repsonse

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> Please delete the other post. This response if for Floyd.

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> > In short, there are thousands of potential ways to make sure the
> > populations diverge from each other, but I can't think of any
> > mechanism, off the top of my head, that would _prevent_ it.  If you
> > can think of a way to stop this divergence from happening to isolated
> > populations in different environments, I would really appreciate
> > hearing it.  What could do that?  Please let me know.  Thanks.
> >     -Floyd
> 
> This is a common mistake that people who believe in evolution make so
> do not feel bad about it. You ask what would stop these helpful
> mutations from happening. The real question is not what would stop
> them but what would cause them. If you want to claim that mutations
> can cause new features than you have to find evidence for your claim.
> I personally suggest that you save some your time because I have
> looked myself and there has never been a benificial mutation that has
> been observed. Mutations only do harm. There is evidence for that. If
> you want to say they can cause new constructions then you need to
> provide some  evidence for that.

If you did look, which I doubt, you would have found that the 
mutation which enables resistance to anitbiotics has been very 
beneficial for some bacteria, ditto for the capacity to 
metabolise nylon for others.  And the peppered moth has managed 
to adjust to a variable environment quite nicely, thank you.
 
You can't observe if you don't look.

> Yes I agreed that there is change is all living things but I did not
> say that it was caused by mutations. That would not be reasonable. The
> changes are built into the life form's original designs. That is the
> only reasonable explanation if you think about it.

Except that if you do actually *think* about you still have to 
answer the question: if life-forms have a built-in capacity for 
change what is to prevent them changing into different species?

Ian

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Ian H Spedding