Faid
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Quote (argystokes @ April 15 2007,18:55) | So, FTK, will you be providing support for Egnor's latest over at your blog? http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/04/post_18.html Quote | The best real biological test of "shuffling around information, duplicating, and altering the information" is cancer. According to Dr. Novella’s reasoning, brain tumors ought to be generating quite a bit of "meaningful and even useful new information." Better neuroanatomy and better neurophysiology ought to be popping up "easily." Better frontal lobes and cognition, from cancer. Better temporal lobes and memory, from cancer. Better cerebellums and coordination, from cancer. If random mutations and natural selection—Dr. Novella’s "two stroke engine"—is the source of all functional integrated biological complexity, brain tumors ought to help our brains evolve in some way.
Perhaps Dr. Novella has data that show real evolutionary improvements in the brain caused by brain tumors. If he has, he should show us.
I'm just a rube, not a Darwinist from Yale. But I’ve never seen cancer make a brain better. |
I assume that even a layman such as yourself can see the blatant stupidity of this reasoning. How can you continue to take these DI folks seriously? |
Oh my god.
Is-is Egnor REALLY a brain surgeon?
See, this is what overspecialization does to our profession, people. We learn all ther is to know on one tiny aspect or trait, and we completely forget all the rest.
-------------- A look into DAVE HAWKINS' sense of honesty:
"The truth is that ALL mutations REDUCE information"
"...mutations can add information to a genome. And remember, I have never said that this is not possible."
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