Re: john disects your message!:mutations and reproduction

Chuck Warman (cwarman@wf.net)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 22:28:50 -0500

At 07:26 PM 6/19/97 -0500, John Queen wrote:
>---I think this discussion goes to the very heart of evolution. Without
>natural selection and random mutations evolution is a sinking ship.
>Natural selection is a theory or idea that will only 'float' if the ideas
>and theories of random mutaions are feasible. The evidence for natural
>selection is the fossil record which is not really evidence for the
>mechanistic aspects of natural selection. In addition, the fossil record
>reveals patterns that natural selection has a hard time explaining. So
>the only real evidence for natural selection is that random mutations can
>contribute to the complexity of a genome thus enabling a selection. This
>in itsself has only be theorized. The evidence for these types of
>mutations is once again the fossil record and the explanation that natural
>selection would pick out the most suited genomes.

Which, as Philip Johnson has pointed out so often, is a tautology: The
evidence to support the theory of Darwinian evolution is, uhh, the theory
of natural selection.

Chuck
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