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Posted by Homo sapiens on January 18, 1999 at 20:52:40:
In Reply to: Re: Rich resorts to emotional attacks, having been roadblocked on the real issues posted by Muzzy on January 18, 1999 at 20:14:41:
: : If natural selection is a reasonable mechanism for
: : macroevolution, why don't you explain to me how
: : this occurs? No one here has shown me how natural
: : selection can build up the genome of a single
: : stranded polynucleotide to a multichromosome
: : system.
: : : No one knows. No scientist currently has a good explanation for this. You make the philosophical leap, that in the absence of this knowledge, that evolution must be abandoned. This is ludicrous. When Newton devised his three laws of motion and his law of gravitation, people accepted them as very good theories. However, when astronomers observed Ur, Newton's laws didn't work. Throw out Newtonian mechanics? No, they explain so many things beautifully. No, look for a way to explain the discrepancy. Even before they could "see" it, people predicted that there was another planet (Neptune was found shortly after).
: : So now you admit you do not know how macroevolution
: : occurs, but in the next breath you know it is a
: : fact. Your ignorance is unbelievable.
: This is pure dishonesty. When Rich said "Nobody knows," he was referring to your statement about "the genome of a single stranded polynucleotide to a multichromosome system" and not to your rhetorical question about explaining how macroevolution works. You have received numerous explanations of how macroevolution works; I know it, Rich knows it, and you know it; so what reason would Rich have to say he doesn't know how macroevolution works.
: I restored the statement Rich was answering, and which you deleted, in order to expose your mendacity.
You still havn't told me what the mechanism is,
excpet natural selection which you think is
caused by new variations being created by each
microevolutionary event. Read your bio book and
see what it says about this. He was talking about
macroevolution, which I consider genome building,
which would be required for such changes.
And I think Rich can talk for himself and doesn't
need you jumping into our discussions. At least
he understands what microevolution is.