(February 12, 2020 at 11:01 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(February 11, 2020 at 6:54 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: So Bilateral symmetry ensures the eyes are spaced apart just perfectly, my!
“said mutations are 100% random”
False ”
Nope, you are false, mutations are 100% random. This is your crutch to lie about this.
NS can do absolutely nothing in the way of developing new traits because mutations are what causes new traits to emerge.
Your repeated lies to this not helping your cause
Bilateral symmetry doesn't ensure equal spacing, but it makes it much more likely because a mutation in one gene can affect both sides of an organism with bilateral symmetry (which is most animals visible to the naked eye).
Mutations aren't magic. They are constrained by the laws of biochemistry, and therefore CANNOT be 100% random. Like most random events, they are constrained by their 'possibility space'. Like a die with 100 sides could only give '100% random results' as long as those results aren't lower than 1 or higher than 100. It's not going to give a random result of 'sky' unless 'sky' is printed on one of the sides.
Natural selection is primarily a conservative 'force', it eliminates what is detrimental to an organism reproducing, so most of the time it's acting to keep a species the way it already is. Without natural selection species would become unrecognizable as variations with adverse survival value would be retained in the species instead of eliminated. Mutations happen on the individual level, a novel trait cannot emerge at the species level unless it is not selected against by natural selection. Mutations supply individual variations, natural selection (or possibly a population bottleneck like the founder effect) determines whether a new genetic variation spreads to the species level.
Well what I’m saying is that mutations ARE like magic. As Luck and magic would have it , look what they accomplished, among everything from owls, eyes. to blood clotting to the insect doppelgänger of a leaf and many other examples of traits that seem too good to be true.
And. What did your parents say about things that are usually too good to be true?
If I was stuck in the middle of the desert dying of thirst what would the chances be that a case of spring water would be behind the next rock ?
“No, mutations do not cause new traits to emerge. Mutations provide the raw material for selection to act upon, either preserving or elimination the mutations.
If Gregor Mendel was alive, he'd slap your face.
Boru
If the society for normal logic heard this, you would be the one slapped. Hard.
Mutations provide ALL THE MATERIAL FOR NEW TRAITS!!!! No way you are going to weasel out of this, the driver of all your atheist luck