What is the Evidence for Evolution?

[benkirk (Benjamin Kirk)]

@gbrooks9

I was restricting my discussion PURELY to genetic mutations… (not evolution of a population by means of changes in allele ratios).

I’ve already heard your sp[i]el on allele ratios. And that’s why I very carefully avoided making any references to something that you might interpret as that. And yet … you still manage to do it.

First, it’s allele frequencies, not ratios.

Second, mutations create new alleles. Whether you’re using the word or not, the concepts (which you clearly don’t understand) are inseparable. Again, you repeatedly ignore the far greater role that existing differences, recombination, etc. play in Darwinian evolution. Here’s an example:

@gbrooks9

It is only when geographical separation, cultural differentiation, or mutation divide one part of the population from another part, that you can see how the unique history experienced (from then on!) by the two different groups can eventually (if not virtually inevitably) lead to some whopping differences.

ONLY WHEN, eh? Please explain why recombination can’t divide one part of a population from another part.

[BradKramer]

One of the classic signs that a conversation should be closed is that we are talking about talking about talking. Which is definitely happening here.