Re: Genomes succeeding and failing, for whom is it a success or

On Feb 23, 4:42 pm, backspace <sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/GeoffPragmaticshttp://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/browse_frm/thread/6b0e811...
Post24 by Geoff:

"...Evolutionists understand that NS is merely a metaphor which
contrasts the selection by humans for desireable traits in
domesticated plants and animals with the how genomes succeed or fail
in interspecific and intraspecific competition in nature....."

Lets presume there are no humans on this planet, then for whom would
genomes be a success or failure ? For something to be a success
somebody must have had some predetermined goal for something to
reach.

Many people have told me that NS is a metaphor yet refused to spell
out for what, only Geoff came close.

Success in NS, is *defined* by greater reproductive success for a
phenotype, and is always relative to the level of reproductive success
of alternative phenotypes within that species. Humans (or any other
intelligent designer agent) on this planet is unnecessary. The
greater reproductive success of V. cholerae when it causes greater
disease in humans (thus spreading itself through the feces dropped in
the water supply) is relative to those V. cholerae that lack this
ability to spread itself as efficiently. Do you still not understand
NS exists when |rs1 - rs2| > 0? Did your math skills stop at
addition, so that you don't understand the meaning of *difference*?

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