Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [Krimel] > > "Take the standard notion that wings simply evolved from forelegs. It > takes > > perhaps a hundred mutations to produce a functional wing from a leg--a > > half-wing will not do. A half-wing is no good as a leg and no good as a > > wing--you can't run and you can't fly. It has no adaptive value > whatsoever. > > In other words, with a half-wing you are dinner. The wing will work only > if > > these hundred mutations happen all at once, in one animal--also these same > > mutations must occur simultaneously in another animal of the opposite sex, > > and they have to somehow find each other, have dinner, a few drinks, mate, > > and have offspring with real functional wings." > > > > This could be Philip Johnson or Michael Behe... pulzee. > > [Platt] > Puleez what? You find this faulty because . . .? > > [Krimel] > I really don't have the patience to discuss this politely with you, read The > Selfish Gene for Pete's Sake.
As if Dawkins is God. Or maybe it's Pete. > Act like you have a clue. Let's see. You have a clue, but I don't. Ah, the arrogance of a know-it-all. > For a specific > discussion on this particular issue and Wilber's lame response to criticism > on this point see: > > http://www.kheper.net/topics/Wilber/Wilber_on_biological_evolution.html Now you're talking. Thanks for the reference. I wonder how convincing it will be. We'll see. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
