Re: It just dawned on me.

On Apr 26, 12:50 am, "[M]adman" <ad...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
unrestrained_h...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Random processes - like mutations - can certainly be studied by
science. The mutations are random in that the phenotypes (including
behavior) they produce are related to the needs of that generation of
organisms in that gene pool. A mutation for a heavier fur coat, for
example, is not statistically linked to climate.

What do you mean by calling any process "scientific"?

You have nothing that links such random processes as gene mutation or
natural selection to a scientific outcome which predicts evolution.

Actually, there is. Natural selection is not a random process, and
that evolution happens in a population is quite predictable. It can
be studied again and again, with the same results.



Nothing.

Let me be more specific..:

There are too many variables that can produce natural selection and gene
mutation to even entertain the idea that evolution takes place.

That doesn't follow. That mutation and natural selection take place
means that evolution takes place. The number of variables only mean
it's difficult to predict exactly what will happen, not if it
happens. In an environment were mutations happen, and selection
happens, evolution is inevitable.


What you see
is variation within the same kind of life. Most likely for survival.

The organisms don't have control of the process. Moreover, the vast
majority of species haven't survived. They are extinct.


It is the randomness of the variables that can cause the gene mutation and
natural selection which makes the entire process of evolution too chaotic to
even be believable.

As pointed out many times now, natural selection is not random.
Mutations are random in respect to the needs of the individual, but
what causes the mutations is known. Also, why would a chaotic
process be not believable?


Example: man builds a factory. The factory effects natural selection of
moths. Who can predict man would build the factory?

It doesn't matter. Environments change, no matter what reason.

The factory is the
random part that triggers the natural selection

The factory is a change to the environment. Natural selection is
not something that waits to be "triggered", it's something that's
always going on. If it wasn't the factory, it could be a volcanic
eruption, forest fires, or any number of things.



Time works against you as well. If evolution needs a lot of time,

Evolution doesn't always require a lot of time.


then time
will allow for more random variables such as factories which in turn effect
the natural selection and genne mutation.

and any more "random variables" will be taken into account.
Evolution is a dynamic process, not something that only happens at
particular intervals. Selection is always acting on populations.
Populations are always varying. Therefore evolution is always
happening.

DJT

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