ok. Thank you MarcusHill!
I only have time to pop in here and tie up some loose ends from my little presentation, further commentary has to wait until much later, several hours from now.
Here are more detailed references.
1)The Kimura chart itself is (as I had said) an adaption of an adaption of the original. The original chart, as well as all the math behind it can be found at:
Kimura, M. 1979. Model of effective neutral mutations in which selective restraint is incorporated. PNAS 76:3440-3444
We are lucky enough to have those archives available to the general public at
http://www.pnas.org/
2)Gerrish, P.J. and R.Lenski. 1998. The fate of competing beneficial mutations in an asexual population. Genetica 102.103:127-144
These archives are not free to the general public, but the abstract is readable
http://www.springerlink.com/content/np187h5878166310/?p=4454ba0ccbf44e608093317ec2aa8059π=13
3)Batallion, T. 2000 Estimation of spontaneous genome-wide mutation rate parameters: whither beneficial mutations? Heredity 84:497-501
No free edition, here is the abstract
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00727.x
4)Elena, S.F. et al, 1998. Distribution of fitness effects caused by random insertion mutations in E.coli Genetica 102/103:349-358
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r37w1hrq5l0q3832/?p=c01f4607f275436f9799c3bb616ad0b8π=29
so later in Genesis when it talks about God opening the windows in the firmament to let the water through to cause the flood... hmmm... maybe you want to rethink your previous
No, as a matter of fact it follows my explanation quite well, and you act as if I had never thought of it before and this is some startling revelation for me. No, the existence of copious amounts of water in the clouds is probably due to the thicker atmosphere I postulated previously.
Oh, and also, you're wrong anyway. Genesis is in no practical way correct or accurate
IM sorry you dont like my explanation, however in cases such as this, where everyone's opinion is subjective, it doesnt really matter what you think of it.
Nobody is trying to make a scientific case on Genesis, I am simply makeing an explanation for apparent contradictions. I thought we had abandoned science long ago when you guys started using the Bible as some sort of self-referencing reason why it must be wrong.