Re: [asa] Anybody familiar with Sanford's book?

I have seen some of its claims repeated on typical creationist boards
and they do seem to lack from a link to reality. Sufficiently
scientific sounding it surely manages to convince the few.
The typical decay argument wrapped in concepts such as near neutral
mutations and muller ratchet.

Nothing much there really but it would be helpful if someone were to
point out the many flaws in Sanford's book. Remember that sex removes
most of the muller ratchet's problems. All in all, as I said, it
sounds just plausible enough to convince a few but once you address
the claims little seems to remain.

On Dec 17, 2007 11:41 AM, <steamdoc@aol.com> wrote:
> An occasional creationist correspondent of mine is bragging on this book:
> Sanford, John C. (2005). Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome. Ivan
> Press.
> Apparently the thesis is that the genome is deteriorating, accumulating bad
> mutations at a rate that means it could not be very many generations old,
> even had it been created perfect.
>
> Anybody familiar with the book or the thesis in general? Know of a good
> review by somebody who actually knows the science (blurbs for the book are
> from Behe and Johnson)?
> The fact that the other thing my correspondent lifted up in the email was
> the RATE project does not inspire confidence in this book, but I should not
> assume guilt by association.
>
> Allan (ASA Member)
> ------------------------------
> Dr. Allan H. Harvey, Boulder, CO, steamdoc at aol dot com
> (usual disclaimers here)
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