Re: Why Evolution is a metaphysical hypothesis

On 28 Nov, 00:05, Evopeach <keaton1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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The method of evolution which supposedly gives rise to every
biological organism, system, feature, etc. is at the heart random
mutation of the sequence of the molecules

Strictly speaking, it's a sequence of nucleotides (which are groups of
atoms) which compose the DNA double strands.
Each DNA double strand is a molecule.

comprising the 4-letter
genetic code which then codes for and results in a protein

The genetic code is the mapping between codons (3 nucleotide words
over an alphabet of 4 nucleotides) and aminoacids.

with a
different set of physical and chemical characteristics than in the
previous cellular cycle. Assuming this is a germline cell it has the
possibility of being passed on to progeny and depending on its
viability, usefulness, efficacy, in the environment of its host
population and the various expression parameters it may or may not
convery a reproductive advantage to the heirs.

Mostly ok.

The most frequent mode
of mutation that has some chance of effecting evolution is the point
mutation as such do occur in copying the DNA...1-3 per 6 billion
neuclotides, on average.

Point mutations are probably the most studied because they are easiest
to consider in mathematical models, but other kinds of mutation
significatively affect evolution as well.
In particular gene duplication mutations allow to specialize an
existent gene in two different genes.

The bottlenosed dolphin has a suburb echolocation system based on
sonar like systems that enable it to locate, pursue, encounter and
catch its swift prey in saltwater. It emits high frequency clicks at
varying rates and intensities based on receiving back reflected
soundwaves. It then develops a picture of the local area, the location
of the prey and computes a lead intercept sort of trajectory to follow
varying the chirp level as it closes to the prey. It also has to know
the speed of sound in saltwater at the temperature locally.

Ok.

Now I have worked on missle trajectory computations based on radar ,
TV , IR and the complete systems of hardware and software necessary.
The realtime programs are immence and complex, and the interfaces to
the various sensors, navigation devices, and their internals are as
well.

And a dolphin is also complex.

Evolution also asks one to believe that starting with a creature
posessing none of these traits,features and abilities in its genes
that an uncaring, non-goal oriented, blind process of randomly
changing a sprinkling of letters in a million character string, seeng
it change a few proteins, having them gain some expression in some
randomly selected functional aspect of the organism, seeing if such
was of reproductive advantage in a changing environment over time and
then repeating this process ad finitum will result in the bodily
features, cerebral algorithms, computing capability and the
acquisition of physical parameters from the environment necessary to
carry out such a system as the echolocation, sonar like system that we
know they posess. All this without any ability or desire to effect the
correct sequence changes in its genes but strictly by random chance
and environmental filtering.

Yes.

Consider that the land mammal which was the ancestor of dolphins most
likely had the ability to approximately locate a sound source, like
most mammals including humans do.
The difference between this and an echolocation system is that the
echolocation system is more accurate and it is active: it emits sound
pulses. The two things are probably correlated: once you deal with
known pulses rather than generic environmental sounds you can
specialize the auditory and processing system to them.
Therefore I don't see anything fundamentally impossible in the
evolution of the dolphin ecolocation system: the base sound locator
system was already there and it probably just become more specialized
and more accurate, most likely gradually.

I cannnot engage in the suspension of rational, logical, intellectual,
experiential based thought necessary to belief that which is contrary
to all human experience..........that chance is the engine of the
greatest creativity.

You are engaging in Argument from Incredulity, which is a logic
fallacy.
You don't see a possible explanation for a phenomenon and so you
conclude that it has a supernatural cause.
This is exactly the same flawed logic that made ancient people belive
that any sort of natural phenomena they didn't understand (weather,
planet movements, diseases, etc) were caused by Gods or spirits or
ghosts.

Such belief in the face of absolute counter -experience and analytical
improbability is simply metaphysical.

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