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Blinn · 06-23-2002, 05:51 PM

Theory of MacroDevelopment? Anyone ever heard of this one? I stumbled across it <a href="http://www.macrodevelopment.org" target="_blank">here</a>. On a cursory look, it appears to be something along the lines of ID - basically giving up and admitting that evolution happens (god forbid we call it that though!), but still trying to impose a creator into the molecular end of it.

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Q: Is MacroDevelopment a new theory of evolution?
A: It could be said that MacroDevelopment is a theory of evolution, if by evolution you mean "change through time". However, the word "evolution" excludes the idea of design for many people.

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The real power of the creation of new species is in the ability of the genome to produce new code. How this happens is not known,

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but it is increasingly clear that mutation/selection is inadequate.

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Rather it seems reasonable to look for an innate ability of the genome to alter the regulation of gene expression, causing new morphologies with the same proteins.

So here they go again, denying that mutation can create novel information, and instead claiming that new morphologies are somehow preprogrammed into existing genetic information and are extracted teleologically by the genome itself.

[ June 23, 2002: Message edited by: Zetek ]</p>

Autonemesis · 06-23-2002, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by Zetek:
So here they go again, denying that mutation can create novel information, and instead claiming that new morphologies are somehow preprogrammed into existing genetic information and are extracted teleologically by the genome itself.

And we're supposed to worship this ectoplasmic mumbo-jumbo-generator because...?

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