seandhuine

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   by seandhuine 4y ago

   Right at the end of all that, there's an IOU for a molecular explanation of puntuated equilibrium. How is the IOU cashed out? Oh, "transcription errors" plus some non-molecular magic. Transcription errors...think about that.
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   by seandhuine 4y ago

   I'm hoping that gradually over a very short period of time folks will realize the contradiction in terms that is called "punctuated equilibrium". It has no feasible molecular basis. Without such, it might as well be fairy dus
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   by seandhuine 4y ago

   That a hypothesis that has no feasible molecular basis can be called "leading" is a mark of the bankruptcy of Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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   by seandhuine 4y ago

   What Darwin knew about biology is incommensurate with a modern understanding of the word "mutation". A generation later than him, biologists still believed cells were formless blobs of jelly, so to speak. Punctuated equilibrium is