RE: The code that is DNA
December 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2019 at 7:10 pm by The Architect Of Fate.)
Quote:No, Latin didn't turn to French in a day; the length of time, however, is irrelevant when it comes to identifying that transition.
Nope
Quote:If you can provide the specific amount of time (e.g. "2 million years") that is used as a yardstick by "the latest science" to distinguish microevolution from macroevolution, I'll withdraw my argumentNot needed for said distinction
Quote:The error of time can be illustrated, perhaps poorly, by taking any two species and asking what distinguishes the two. The difference between a cat and a dog, for example, isn't X number of seconds.Another bad analogy
(December 20, 2019 at 6:40 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You gotta be quick to beat a no lifer like me.His answer is hilarious
I'd add to the above...that it takes different amounts of time to bake the same cake based on the altitude of the oven, as well. The underlying assumption required to ask the initial question is positively absurd. May as well ask how long it takes a teenager girl to get ready for a date.
-and yet, still, the only thing separating micro and macro evolution is time. At the end of the day, or a very long series of them, speciation is inevitable. Copying errors alone will eventually produce reproductive incompatibility. This is drift, in a nutshell. We're not sure that drift amounts to much in the face of other speciation pressures, but even if every other pressure was Wrong and Ungood...there would still be drift. The items contained under the header of Modern Synth are so individually strong that toppling one or more of them would not meaningfully change our picture of how biology operates.
Or, you know, the meatfairy did it. Played in the dirt, muttered a cantrip...did cpr to a golem. 50/50
"Change was inevitable"
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Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM