RE: So your an Athiest
December 5, 2015 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2015 at 6:52 pm by Alex K.)
(December 5, 2015 at 2:19 pm)AAA Wrote:You brought up mutation rates when I asked where you got the information that evolution is insufficient, not me.(December 5, 2015 at 2:13 pm)Quantum Wrote: Did you then do the calculation of the resulting genetic "drift" in the population over geological time yourself? How did you come to the conclusion that the rate is too low to explain genetic diversity?
Uh, I never mentioned genetic drift directly, or gave a numerical value for it.
Quote:Also, I never said that the rate is too low to explain genetic diversity. Point mutations simply cannot lead to new functional sequences because they are just the alteration of existing bases.I'd like to to hear a biologist respond to this, but what is your point here? That it cannot lead to new additional genes because it would replace an old one? But there are not just point mutations, so what is your point?
Quote: Also you would have to have many sequential mutations in a row becoming the correct base at one time, and in the correct order with no missing spaces in order to gain a new functional sequence that would be selected for.What do you mean by becoming the *correct* base? Correct for what?
Quote:I have tried to do this calculation and I couldn't find an online calculator that was capable of handling such big odds.
Which calculation exactly?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
