Re: Does anybody have any evidence that all evolutionary events are

John Wilkins wrote:

dkomo <dkomo871@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


John Harshman wrote:

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It's my understanding, based on occasional and strictly exposure to
physics, that it's been shown that quantum events can't be determinate,
i.e. that there are no hidden variables. But if they are truly random,
and if mutations are the result of individual quantum events, which they
frequently are,

Where do you get that mutations are the result of individual quantum events? As far as I can tell, mutations are poduced by chemical interactions, and these occur at the molecular level rather than the atomic, nuclear or subatomic level. A point mutation like a base substitution might be caused by thermal noise, for example, but I wouldn't consider that a "quantum event".


Even the occasional gamma particle is hardly the major source of
mutation. I too understood most mutation to be thermal noise and
mispairings.


Agreed. However that still makes mutations random, and not just random with respect to fitness. Truly random, just as if they were caused by qunatum events. You could never predict where and when a mutation will occur, hence there goes your determinism.


--dkomo@xxxxxxxx


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