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Politics : Evolution
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (68664)9/22/2015 5:57:45 PM
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I think it's important to point out the context in which continental drift is important. Life began on this planet 4 billion years ago and for most of that time it didn't change very quickly

Agreed, also with timelines for aerobic replacing anerobic , vast subject & slow change, have come to think life is a very rare event but somewhat inevitable.

why the surface of the earth broke up into plates. One hypothesis is that the interior contracted as the planet cooled and the surface naturally cracked, while another posits that a large meteorite shattered the surface on impact.

And common sense & intuition are contained in both. This expression 'Big Bang of Evolution' has caught on, you did see rebuff of Meyers, this contains a key Message 30233932

The main argument of Meyer is the mathematically impossible time
scale that is needed to support emergence of new genes which
drive the explosion of new species
during the Cambrian period. Marshall
points out that the relatively fast
appearance of new animal species in this
period is not driven by new genes, but
rather by evolving from existing
genes through "rewiring" of the gene regulatory
networks (GRNs).

This basis of morphogenesis is dismissed by Meyer due to his fixation on novel genes and new protein folds as prerequisite of emergence of new species. The root of his
bias is his "God of the gaps" approach to knowledge and the sentimental
quest to "provide solace to those who feel their faith undermined by secular
society and by science in particular
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