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Natural Selection would alter the probability of that supposed absurdity. Evolution is the mathematical absurdity. Natural selection occurs after evolution (according to the myth). Something that occurs after a mutation (that is, natural selection) does not affect the probability of the mutation itself (just a clarification).  Evolution requires a series of mutations in exactly the right way at exactly the right time WITHOUT numerous errors in between (which would destroy the symmetry) in order to reach our current, observable state. Mathematically absurd. "... Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?… But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?… Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory."—Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 179
Last edited by Russ T; 09/22/08 03:04 PM. Reason: Changing tone of post. Didn't mean to sound challenging.
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