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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: A new voice.
Message-ID: <535@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 17:50:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.535
Posted: Fri Jul  5 17:50:16 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 05:37:33 EDT
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <350@scgvaxd.UUCP> dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan) writes:
>
> This is just not so! The central hypothesis has been attacked over and
> over. When it is, however, netters change their tune and claim that
> evidence against evolution is NOT evidence for creation.
>
> Mutation has been shown to be a poor mechanism for Evolution. Transmutation
> has never been observed and most all mutations have proven harmful. The
> variations within species are predicted by the creation model. Even
> Evolutionists have admitted the problems involved with Evolution occuring
> by chance mutation. Natural selection has serious problems as well.
> It has been stated that N.S. predicts everything, therefore it predicts
> nothing.
>
	Actually, the central bases of evoluyionary theory have never
been *successfuully* attacked. The attracks you present are either
invalid or inappropriate! Certainly mutation *by* *itself* is a poor
mechanism for evolutiopn, BUT the proposed mechanism is a small bit of
mutation *plus* natural selection, which is quite different. So *most*,
mutations are "harmful", this is where N.S. comes in, it amplifies the
few "beneficial" ones that do occur. Also the you are treating the life
value(harmful/beneficial) of a mutation as an intrinsic property of
the mutation. This is not so, the value of an allele is a property of
its interactions with the *environment*(including other genes), and is
thus *variable* under varying environment. What is harmful in one
situation may well be necessary for survival in another!
	Your last attack is simply false, it has no bearing on the
actual theory of evolution since the real theory *does* make
predictions that are verifyable.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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