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Can we keep this thread to being about how YECs shoot each other in the foot?Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
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Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View PostNo, it's pure evil and against His revealed character. It goes against all He has declared to be wrong. So yeah, actively doing it is not something He would do. Allowing it as part of the Fall, maybe. That is totally different from what TE's describe, and what you yourself described.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostEvolution is all about leaving the most progeny. When the trees got darker those with the genes that caused them to be darker thrived and quickly started out producing the lighter colored variety to the point that the former rapidly became the overwhelming majority. When the situation was reversed the lighter colored moths were the ones that thrived and the darker variety has become exceedingly rare. The genes for both dark and light coloring still exist in the over all population but it was the environment that decided which would flourish and prosper. If the genes for variation didn't exist then the population would remain stagnant and make evolution impossible
This is how evolution works.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postor they just kept getting eaten so they didn't see any.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Roy View PostIf they got eaten that fast they'd never reproduce. Any mutations that resulted in dark variants would quickly lead to that strain going extinct. Until the 1820s.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postnot if it was a normal variation with light colored moths giving birth to both types, which I believe is the case.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Roy View PostNo, that's backwards. The dark allele is dominant. Two light moths can't produce dark offspring because they won't have any copies of the dark allele - unless a mutation occurs.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postok so the dark moths give birth to both kinds. or the mutation is a regular occurrence. same point. Both light and dark occur naturally in the population. All that the environment is doing is allowing one or the other to live longer, but it is not changing the fact that the other variety still is being born, but just dying early. When the environment changes the other variety becomes more populous. nothing has changed genomically. Both varieties are still being bred in either case.
As far as the rest of Wells' brutally bad lies, he completely ignore the work by the late British moth specialist Michael Majerus. Majerus spent the last two decades of his life studying and experimenting with Biston betularia. Here is his last experiment, published posthumously by the Royal Society in 2012.
Selective bird predation on the peppered moth: the last experiment of Michael Majerus
Cook et al
The Royal Society Biology Letters, 8 February 2012.DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1136
Abstract: Colour variation in the peppered moth Biston betularia was long accepted to be under strong natural selection. Melanics were believed to be fitter than pale morphs because of lower predation at daytime resting sites on dark, sooty bark. Melanics became common during the industrial revolution, but since 1970 there has been a rapid reversal, assumed to have been caused by predators selecting against melanics resting on today's less sooty bark. Recently, these classical explanations of melanism were attacked, and there has been general scepticism about birds as selective agents. Experiments and observations were accordingly carried out by Michael Majerus to address perceived weaknesses of earlier work. Unfortunately, he did not live to publish the results, which are analysed and presented here by the authors. Majerus released 4864 moths in his six-year experiment, the largest ever attempted for any similar study. There was strong differential bird predation against melanic peppered moths. Daily selection against melanics (s ≃ 0.1) was sufficient in magnitude and direction to explain the recent rapid decline of melanism in post-industrial Britain. These data provide the most direct evidence yet to implicate camouflage and bird predation as the overriding explanation for the rise and fall of melanism in mothsLast edited by HMS_Beagle; 09-21-2018, 01:43 PM.
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Originally posted by HMS_Beagle View PostOriginally posted by Sparko View Postok so the dark moths give birth to both kinds. or the mutation is a regular occurrence. same point. Both light and dark occur naturally in the population. All that the environment is doing is allowing one or the other to live longer, but it is not changing the fact that the other variety still is being born, but just dying early. When the environment changes the other variety becomes more populous. nothing has changed genomically. Both varieties are still being bred in either case.
The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element Statistical inference
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My emphasis:Originally posted by Sparko View Postok so the dark moths give birth to both kinds. or the mutation is a regular occurrence. same point. Both light and dark occur naturally in the population. All that the environment is doing is allowing one or the other to live longer, but it is not changing the fact that the other variety still is being born, but just dying early. When the environment changes the other variety becomes more populous. nothing has changed genomically. Both varieties are still being bred in either case.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Roy View PostMy emphasis:If the mutation occurs, regularly or otherwise, then something has changed genomically.
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