Book review of Nature\'s I.Q. (Evolution)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 20:09 (5566 days ago) @ David Turell

Dr. Turell, - > I have reviewed these references and I&apos;ve read both of Robrt Wright&apos;s books, Non-Zero and The Moral Animal, and E.O. Wilson&apos;s On Human Nature and I am still of the same mind. We humans are different in kind, and to apply human cooperation to animals and plants is stretching credulity beyond its bounds. They can&apos;t think like we do and they cannot imagine altruism. I must conclude, if mutations are random and generally deleterious, with a series of lucky contingencies, these symbiotic relationships are miraculous. - My education did not teach that most mutations are deleterious. It taught that only the deleterious ones never pass on. Most mutations are point mutations where one letter of a codon results in sometimes a subtly altered protein, sometimes not altered at all; therefore *only* if the mutation is deleterious will it cease to exist. You seem to think the opposite with your statement - >if mutations are random and generally deleterious, with a series of lucky contingencies, these symbiotic relationships are miraculous.< - From what I&apos;ve learned, mutations are not generally deleterious. Mutations are fine more often than not.

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