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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Vestigal Organs
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 18:36:51 EDT
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> [Paul Torek] 
> Indeed, many insect species have "vestigal" wings, which are small 
> non-functional organs sitting right where the wings were/are on the
> closest related species.  If there's a God who created all species
> from scratch, He must be trying awful hard to trick us into believing
> in evolution!

No, just trying to see how many people can look at degeneration
and say "evolution!"  Break comma give me a.

Seems to me that a number of creationists have mentioned degeneration
as a component of "creation models".  How is your example supposed to be
inconsistent with that?  Or are you trying, in a roundabout way, to
support creationists?

Thanks, also, for the counterexample to this recent statement.

> [Gordon Davisson]
> Harmful mutations have no lasting bad influence on a population because
> their carriars tend not to have many decendants.  Thus, after a while, the
> mutation dissapears from the population.  Beneficial mutations, on the
> other hand, cause their carriers to tend to have more decendants than
> the non-carriers, so after a while, most of the population carries the
> mutation, and the population has taken a step to the right (so to speak).

Never heard of genetic load, I guess...


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