(February 19, 2020 at 3:45 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote:(February 19, 2020 at 11:42 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: It's based on the idea that an organism's reproductive fitness sifts out mutations that are detrimental to reproductive fitness and conserves mutations that are beneficial to an organism's reproductive fitness, causing them to become more frequent in the population of that species. Calling that sheer luck is like saying it's random chance that sediment settles into such orderly layers. Mutations are somewhat random, the 'sifting process' turns that randomness into order.
The fitness evolution theory has been cited ad nauseum here, but NS is powerless w out lucky mutations. You do understand that right? I’ve said it too many times. If you ended up with a lamp and a bulb ; the bulb having mutated into existence and it works in the lamp, NS could DO NOTHING if you got an Oreo cookie instead of the bulb. POWERLESS
, it’s the luck of the bulb, If you can’t get your head around this, then you continue down the Nile River ~~~~
You're correct - NS is powerless without mutations. This is what we've been telling you all along.
But in your really, really horribly bad analogy, the light bulb would not have mutated into existence. There is nothing in evolutionary theory that requires entire systems to mutate into existence all at once.
Boru
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