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Posted: July 16 2006,17:44

I remember having read this a while back, and ran across it again today, but now online.

This is a decent reference article from 2003 summarizing how molecular bio has influenced the ToE (and vice versa). It's written so that most who have taken at least some advanced bio courses should easily be able to grasp the concepts involved; I found it a good read.

specifically, the author is addressing the "randomness" issue wrt mutation frequencies. I know this topic has been raised a few times around here, so here's fuel for that fire.

http://darwingenome.net/?gclid=CNvK6pjrl4YCFUVcJAodRDScsg

(click the link provided to the right of the page if it doesn't take you straight to it.)

and for the PDF version:

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi....ekpjJ6X

cheers

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Chris Hyland

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Posted: July 16 2006,21:29

Wait for it...

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Posted: July 17 2006,01:37

lol; nice.

OHHH, i do so wish they would in fact, take that bait.

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Chris Hyland

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Posted: July 17 2006,02:01

They've mentioned similar things before. Basically the mindset is that if it isn't taught in school, on the cover of Scientific American, or in one of Richard Dawkins' books, then it's not allowed to be part of the modern theory of evolution, and therefore is somehow support for ID. If you look back you'll see they've treated epigenetic inheritance and developmental plasticity in the same way.

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Posted: July 18 2006,22:24

yeah, god forbid they should actually look at the real issues involved, rather than stare with contempt at the strawmen they've created.

but... that's how these folks like it:

simple, uninformed, opinion.

moo.

Ignorance is strength, baby. Just ask AFDavebot.

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