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From: reiser@pmafire.inel.gov (Steve Reiser)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,talk.religion.misc,sci.bio,sci.med,talk.origins
Subject: Evolution is NOT random
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.201603.25448@pmafire.inel.gov>
Date: 3 Jan 91 20:16:03 GMT
Organization: Winco Process Development, Idaho
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In tests reported in a 1989 issue of "Noetic Science Review", it was
found that a bacteria exposed to a virus which is fatal to the bacteria 
had a 70% survival rate due to a genetic double mutation which required
mutation "A" to occur before mutation "B" at specific locations on the
DNA.  The mutations protected the bacteria from the virus.

The article suggested that much of evolution may have been non-random
and selective mutations occur allowing species to advance at an infinitely
faster rate than would be probable by random genetic mutation.

This finding suggests that evolution is harder to explain away than it
had been when statistical probabilities of evolution creating man was
used to suggest that it was necessary for a god to intervene.

Steve


 

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Steve Reiser (reiser@pmafire.UUCP or ...!uunet!pmafire!reiser)