On Oct 1, 12:15 am, "Andrew" <
andrew.321re...@usa.net> wrote:
> "Seth lePod" wrote in messagenews:97890d30-55d8-486c...@a17g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
Wow. It's certainly clear that you ignored my advice to
go find out a bit about these three phenomena before
replying. Imagine my surprise.
In any event, duplication FOLLOWED BY MUTATION of one
of the stuttered genes does in fact present new
information. Incorporation of genes from other
organisms does yield information new to the recipient.
Hell, simple mutation leads to new information, at the
cost of loss of old information (which can also be
beneficial: burrowing snakes hardly need legs; cave
organisms do not need eyes)
But now we are informed that none of these is "the type
of *new information*" required for "macroevolution"
(that perpetually undefined phrase unknown to actual
biologists)
So, put down those goalposts and kindly specify: what
"type" of "new information" -- I don't care where it
comes from; you can say God stuck it in for all of me --
describe, in biological terms, what kind of "new
information" would be required?
Being that this is now the critical definition of
this entire discusion, use all the space you need:
> >> Furthermore, explain the origin of the existing genetic
> >> information apart from a creation by a super-intelligent
> >> Creator.
> >>
> >> You cannot.
:
> As I suspected you did not, because you could
> not, and therefore will not, because you cannot.
As I have said to you, and that time and again and again
and again and again and again -- I am perfectly willing
to consider that existence of a "super-intelligent
Creator".
And then I have at that point asked you -- time and
again and again and again and again and again -- why I
should consider your flavor of god as a likely
candidate for the job. Why not another? Why not --
this I consider the most likely -- why not some Thing or
cohort of Things so advanced as to be literally beyond
our abilities either to perceive or to comprehend? Why
should I consider the local god of a tribe of Iron Age
nomads to be that "super-intelligent Creator"?
And as we both recall -- as probably do most others
reading this thread -- you have that point fled from
the question. Yes, tima and again and again and again
and again and again.
Seth