Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: So simple, even a creationist can understand! Message-ID: <786@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 16:40:27 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.786 Posted: Tue Jul 9 16:40:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:33:19 EDT References: <2156@ut-sally.UUCP> <347@scgvaxd.UUCP> <300@azure.UUCP> <350@scgvaxd.UUCP> <535@psivax.UUCP> Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 16 Keywords: Re: A new voice. In article <535@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes: >So *most*, mutations are "harmful", this is where N[atural].S[election]. >comes in, it amplifies the few "beneficial" ones that do occur. Exactly. One creationist expressed bafflement at the idea that mutation could result in evolutionary chains that "go so far" as the "distance" between radically different organisms. But try this experiment: flip several (many) coins, and move to the right on a number line (start at zero) only when you get all coins coming up heads. This represents movement toward an adapted complex species. Move to the left every time you get any result other than all heads. Only there's one catch: you don't get to move to the left. You can go pretty far, with enough trials. --the evolving iconoclast, Paul V Torek