Re: Commentary: Intelligent Design, and Other Dumb Ideas

backspace wrote:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23404
"....But as the bacteria are cultured over time, at a low frequency
and in an entirely random fashion -- ust as Darwinian theory predicts
-- one of the cells will inactivate our gene of interest, but keep the
antibiotic resistance gene. Having less work to do at each
replication, it will then grow to take over the entire culture --
again, just as Darwin's theory predicts. This ruins the experiment,
of course...."

Just as Darwin's theory predicted? How do you predict something if
can't even define it.

First off, that's a bit of journalistic licence. You are correct that the theory that the author is referring to is not the same one proposed by Darwin. However, it is a refinement and modification of Darwin's theory, not a replacement.

What Darwin did propose is that organisms that are able to create more descendants from the same resources will tend to displace those that can not. Thus in a particular environment (this petri dish), an organism that can do away with the work involved with copying a certain gene will displace those who do not.

Darwin didn't know about genes so how did he
predict anything relating to genes? Let us again quote the Theory of
Gradual Evolution that Wikipedia is refusing to publish:

"..This difficulty, as in the case of unconscious selection by man, is
avoided on the theory of gradual evolution, through the preservation
of a large number of individuals, which varied more or less in any
favourable direction, and of the destruction of a large number which
varied in an opposite manner. That many species have been evolved in
an extremely gradual manner, there can hardly be a doubt...."

Would somebody around here explain to us how this passage explains how
cells will inactivate a gene of interest?


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