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

by David Turell , Saturday, August 29, 2009, 16:34 (5363 days ago) @ xeno6696

David, please reread the post:
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> http://www.agnosticweb.com/index.php?id=2024
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> I said that most mutations are generally fine... that's not the same as saying "good." 
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> You don't need to qualify your position here, it wasn't what was in focus. - I have re-read the post, and we shall move on. Sometimes I write without exposing the background issue, in this case, the mutation rate matched against the time taken for evolutionary change. Many times there is no mathematical fit, and has the appearance that evolution has made a giant jump with no intermediate stages and in a time frame that seems not to allow for those gradual stages. This was first noted at the Wister Institute Symposium "Mathematical Challenges To The Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution", 1966 (part of the U. of Pennsylvania).