Stephen E. Jones

Creation/Evolution Quotes: Mechanisms

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Mechanisms #1:

  1. Needed for scientific theory
  2. Biologists not agreed on the mechanisms
  3. Biologists don't know mechanisms of major changes
  4. May not be the cause of change

  5. How is not why

Mechanisms #2:

  1. Mutations
  2. Genetic drift
  3. Speciation
  4. Saltations (large sudden jumps)

Mechanisms #3:

  1. Competition
  2. Sexual Selection
  3. Adaptation

Mechanisms #4: Natural selection (1)

  1. Not evolution
  2. Is merely differential survival and reproduction
  3. Assumed to be the key mechanism
  4. Based on faulty premises
  5. Is an illusion
  6. Importance doubted or denied
  7. Of limited scope
  8. Little or no evidence of positive
  9. Not creative
  10. Lack of evidence can create new species

  11. No evidence can cause major change
  12. Environment

Mechanisms #5: Natural selection (2)

  1. "Survival of fhe fittest"
  2. Stories
  3. Mimicry

  4. Difficulties of

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