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    Questions for Sean Pitman

    Part 2 of 2 Reply to RufusAtticus, Post #65 Again, you seem not to understand the involvement of human intelligence in human language evolution.  I clearly understand that mistakes can be made, accidently, unknowingly, in the reproduction of a word.  However, such accidental...
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    Part 1 of 2 Reply What "mechanisms" are these?  You have failed to explain the mechanism by which neutral gaps in genetic function are crossed. You haven't demonstrated anything.  You have tried to say that the destruction of functions or the changing of allelic frequencies...
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    I'm not contradicting myself.  I said and I still say that language is a great analogy for the genetic code and the coded system of living cells.  Where we disagree is how codes evolve.  Human language is a coded system just like the information contained in DNA.  However...
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    In my opinion, your hypothetical examples of molecular evolution are not convincing because they are statistically unlikely if not impossible based on my current understanding of naturalistic processes.  If they were statistically likely and or possible, they should be able to be tested in...
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    Again, you simply do not understand.  My statement makes perfect sense as it stands because I was talking about germ-line mutations here.  The evolution of an allele in "cells that gave rise to the liver" makes perfect sense in the context of germ line evolution because germ...
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    You just don't get it do you?  I am thinking "germ line cells" when I am hypothetically proposing the movement of alleles to other locations affecting other types of cells, like liver cells.  You do realize that every cell in the human body has a complete copy of the entire genome...
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      Reply 2 of 2 (RufusAtticus post #50) This is yet another difference between you and me. Science needs to change its terminology when new ideas come along that simply do not fit any established definitions. The current idea is that all changes are equivalent. You just said so...
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    Part 1 of 2 Reply This is really amazing.  You must honestly not get it.  The whole point is that changing symbols around does not, by itself, create definitions.  The function of a word or seqeunce is attached to it by an outside agency.  Adding "er" to "bat" did...
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    Part 2 of 2 Response The problem is that if the pigment produced by this allele happened to evolve in the cells that gave rise to the liver, it would be worthless. So, shuffling alleles around at random throughout a chromosome is not a good idea. They need to trade places between matching...
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    :bow: Oh, I am unworthy! How can you, a post grad student and all, even talk to someone with such "undergraduate misconceptions"? Ah yes, the F+ plasmid carrying bacteria. This is often referred to as a type of sexual transmission of information, but it certainly has little resemblance to...
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    Page 3 of 3 Reply:[size=2] Sorry, but I want to give you your money’s worth if I take the time to respond. Often, if I do not cover most or all of a person’s argument, they accuse me of sniping the most vital parts of their argument on purpose so as to avoid answering/dealing with them. So...
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    Page 2 of 3 Reply   Simply amazing. So, human languages and even computer software evolves the same way that genetic codes evolve. Why didn’t I think of this before? Come on now, you’ve got to be joking. Do you really believe this? I have done a bit of reading about...
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    Part 1 of 3 Reply Evidently we have a very different understanding of how genetic recombination works. Genetic recombination is in fact capable of changing phenotypes very quickly over time, but it is clearly limited in how far it can go by itself. Genetic recombination can explain the...
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    Part 2 of 2 Reply Actually, fluctuations in the frequency of an allele or genetic sequence in a population are not the evolution of a new genetic/allelic function in that population. For example, if you had a trillion bacteria and none of them were resistant to penicillin, they would...
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    Part 1 of 2 Reply [size=2]   If you are talking about neutral evolution (ie: neutral genetic drift), then you are correct. However, if you are talking about functional evolution (ie: the evolution of new/novel functions) then I think you are mistaken. Changing ratios of alleles...
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