[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[Krimel]

> [Krimel]
> "Take the standard notion that wings simply evolved from forelegs. It
takes
> perhaps a hundred mutations to produce a functional wing from a leg--a
> half-wing will not do. A half-wing is no good as a leg and no good as a
> wing--you can't run and you can't fly. It has no adaptive value
whatsoever.
> In other words, with a half-wing you are dinner. The wing will work only
if
> these hundred mutations happen all at once, in one animal--also these same
> mutations must occur simultaneously in another animal of the opposite sex,
> and they have to somehow find each other, have dinner, a few drinks, mate,
> and have offspring with real functional wings."
> 
> This could be Philip Johnson or Michael Behe... pulzee.

[Platt]
Puleez what? You find this faulty because . . .?


[Krimel]
I really don't have the patience to discuss this politely with you, read The
Selfish Gene for Pete's Sake. Act like you have a clue. For a specific
discussion on this particular issue and Wilber's lame response to criticism
on this point see:

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Wilber/Wilber_on_biological_evolution.html