Re: Teaching science/Christianity to middle schoolers

Even if only a comparatively few mutations turn out to be beneficial to the
organism or the species, given the gazillion mutations that have taken place
over the 4 billion year evolutionary history of life, a humongous number of
them must have been beneficial and thus influenced in positive ways the
evolutionary processes in various organisms. And, whether a mutation is
neutral, harmful, or beneficial, of course, is something to be judged in
hindsight; the value of the mutation will depend on its effect upon the
organism not only in itself but in relation to its environment.

The statement you were given, Burgy, as others have pointed out, is
misleading, as are several others in the list of questions (as has been
pointed out).

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Berel-Harrop" <sec@hal-pc.org>
To: "asa" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: Teaching science/Christianity to middle schoolers

> Most mutations are neutral, anyway, and going on to
> whether features affected by the mutations are beneficial,
> deleterious, or neutral is generaly highly dependent on
> environment. See, eg
>
> http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html
>
> Why does this always come up? This specific addition
> to the curriculum appeared in the Kansas Standards.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dick Fischer" <dickfischer@earthlink.net>
> To: "asa" <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Teaching science/Christianity to middle schoolers
>
>
> Burgy wrote:
>
> "Almost all mutations are harmful-was this always the case?"
>
> Questions are good. Not much harm in asking questions.
>
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 23 12:39:49 2004