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

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, September 11, 2009, 03:18 (5351 days ago) @ David Turell

The odds for the reqired chance mutations increase exponentially. I firmly believe the DNA?RNA code guides evolution and drives it forward.
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> > But if we are the result of accrued changes (which you don't deny), what on earth is there even to argue about?
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> Remember the Darwin quote from dhw: I am a form of theist and I believe evolution occurred. 
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> > Epigenetics discusses changes to phenotype that aren't the result of DNA translation. This is still evolution to me. I guess I don't see the point that you keep trying to drive home about all this...
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> The point is this. We have 3.6 billion years to get to H. sapiens under a passive and cumbersome process. Speed really didn't pick until the Cambian Explosion, over 500 million years ago, with the arrival of enough oxygen in the atmosphere. If it is shown that the evolution in this latter period required so many mutations that there is not enough time available, that is one discovery for my point of view. The second way my prediction will be proven is if the calculated odds are so monumental, beyond a probability bound of let's say 10^-100, that will prove my prediction that DNA/RNA is coded to drive creation, so that we appear rather directly, not by a wandering passive process, Darwin Theory.-Here, critique these:-http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC300.html-http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC301.html-(Sorry to use talkorigins but I know quite a few biologists and paleontologists worked to put it together.) -Combining what you're saying with the explanations provided, for your claim to be tenable we would need to force a macroevolutionary event by inducing it biochemically in order to accept it. Hypothetically in the day and age of artificial carcinogens we should be seeing some drastic changes in phenotype. However if it is true then we should be able to forcefully create drastically different phenotypes at will by using epigenetic principles. We should be able to directly test it. Actually we're only about 4-5 years away from scientists custom-creating microbes. This would be a great place to test your idea--if there's no pressure for selection than mutations and traits should happen epigenetically. -The explanation of predator/prey relationships goes a long way to explain fast changes in observed phenotype during the Cambrian. I'd like to hear a stronger refutation...

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