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Re: Eternity
« Reply #100 on: May 16, 2023, 10:40:27 AM »
He has provoked predictable outrage from Neo Darwinists by providing evidence that the process of evolution involves more than random mutations combined with natural selection.

I don't think anybody actually thinks that there aren't other processes. The problem is that he draws unevidenced conclusions that go way beyond that.

"Another problem I have with this kind of meeting is that they're always infested with crackpots. This one had Denis Noble, and disgraceful dingleberry who believes that mutations are non-random and that acquired characteristics can be inherited and that evolutionary change is entirely saltational. He's nuts."

Also worth noting that, in contrast to Sriram, Noble does accept natural selection.

"Noble has been quote mined by intelligent design proponents, but Noble soundly rejects intelligent design. Despite his criticism of neo-Darwinism, Noble is still a Darwinist as he accepts natural selection. He is not anti-evolution, he is only debating the mechanisms of evolution."

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Re: Eternity
« Reply #101 on: May 16, 2023, 12:00:37 PM »
AB,

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A truly brilliant mind.

He probably is in the subject he knows about, namely computer modelling of biological organs and organ systems. 

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He has provoked predictable outrage from Neo Darwinists...

No he hasn't - what he's actually provoked is evidence-based corrections.

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...by providing evidence that the process of evolution involves more than random mutations combined with natural selection.

No he hasn't.
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