@gungasnake,
Quote: Take flying birds for example; suppose you aren't one, and you want to become one. You'll need a baker's dozen highly specialized systems, including wings, flight feathers, a specialized light bone structure, specialized flow-through design heart and lungs, specialized tail, specialized general balance parameters etc.
This is exactly what the intermediate "reptile to bird" bauplans show.The only real intermediate we have is archeopteryx since it lived near swampy areas it had the basic environment available to become a fossil. Archeopteryx has 21 reptilean features , not the least of which is teeth. The researchers today are able to turn the corporal genes off and on in chickens and other "CAprimulgiform" birds to show how teeth were a process taht with the right genic makeup, can be reiinitiated .
Also, what kind of flight feathers and wing structure do you need.? We do have significant HOX gene data that shows how genes were turned off and on for different genera that occupied different environments. MAking it a strong argument for adaptation as the mechanism for evolution
Quote: In probability theory, to compute the probability of two things happening at once, you multiply the probabilities together. That says that the likelihood of all these things ever happening,
Successive steps in evolution are not probablistic, they are adaptive and by being so, your concept of game theory is all bullshit.
Quote: because the original conceptions of evolution are flatly refuted by developments in population genetics since the 1950's, the latest incarnation of this theory, Steve Gould and Niles Eldredge's "Punctuated Equilibrium or punc-eek" attempts to claim that these wholesale violations of probabilistic laws all occurred so suddenly as to never leave evidence in the fossil record, and that they all occurred amongst tiny groups of animals living in "peripheral" areas. That says that some velocirapter who wanted to be a bird got together with fifty of his friends
PE is NOT a new thing, maybe to you, who only gets his information from Creationist websites that are run by preachers of Evangelism. PE is only a hypothesis based upon decidedly saltation appearance in the fossil record. Its been studied, analyzed and work done by folks more informed and educated than you try to sound. Of course weve gone over that several times before so I can only assume that youre tryin g these worn out chops for the benefit of the new folks. I think youll find that they are skeptics of your Fred Hoyle hypotheses also.
Quote:Consider what Gould and other punk-eekers are saying. Punc-eek amounts to a claim that all meaningful evolutionary change takes place in peripheral areas, amongst tiny groups of animals which develop some genetic advantage, and then move out and overwhelm, outcompete, and replace the larger herds. They are claiming that this eliminates the need to spread genetic change through any sizeable herd of animals and, at the same time, is why we never find intermediate fossils (since there are never enough of these CHANGELINGS to leave fossil evidence).
This is a version of saltation, not PE. At least get your phrases correct
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The sort of things noted in items 3 and 5 are generally referred to as the "gambler's problem", in this case, the problem facing the tiny group of "peripheral" animals being similar to that facing a gambler trying to beat the house in blackjack or roulette; the house could lose many hands of cards or rolls of the dice without flinching,
"Gamblers Ruin" is a very good example of how evolution favors genera with multiple species rather than a single species representing a genera. CF Dave RAups excellent little book "
EXTINCTION, bad luck or bad genes". Its an oldie (1983) but that is still 20 years ahead of anything you are attempting to understand
Quote:They don't even bother to try to provide a mechanism or technical explaination of any sort for this "punk-eek"
. I guess you missed Goulds last book , which was pretty much a driving mechanism for PE.
Ohh I know, you only read websites that are run by the Creation Museum of Kentucky.
