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Joined: Dec 2007
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Death occurs. Nobody has discovered a demonstrable way to predict any pattern. The observed pattern of death does not match the predicted pattern of death. It is always so, when predictions are made in advance. Unless of course, someone interferes to ensure a desired pattern. ??? Is this your reasoning as to why natural selection doesn't occur? Are you saying, for example, that death will occur to a group of faster predators at the same percapita rate as it will occur to a group of slower predators who hunt the same speedy prey? I am predicting no such thing. To do so would be silly. It would be self-defeating. Your trap is wasted on me. Then what are you saying? Try being less cryptic. Perhaps I don't fully understand your version of "natural selection" and why it cannot occur in your reality. I pretty much understand all versions of the selection goddess. I also understand that you and most evolutionists feel compelled to switch versions quite frequently. I asked you what version you were arguing against. Does this mean you are arguing against any form of natural selection at all? One minute she's omniscient, eliminating any "defect" no matter how minute, no matter that it's an unexpressed recessive trait. Next time you turn around, she's on vacation, allowing all sorts of things to pile up. She can choose a single gene in a single fly out of all the flies in the world, and preserve it. Yet she "only sees populations" every other Tuesday. Perhaps the real explanation is a bit more complex than you think and the appearance of conflict is a characteristic of that complexity. Sorry if it is difficult for you to understand, but reality is often that way.
A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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