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In the second case, the target organism could spend a very long time without much substantive change, and then suddenly change quite rapidly, due to an unexpected and beneficial mutation. Now, you can certainly argue that this is contrary to some "gradualist" (point mutation) theory of evolution -- but, it's not contrary to the general theory of evolution by mutation and selection -- it fits just fine.
I've seen this with the framsticks program. Say I'm sorting for speed, (The selection pressure). I might see fitness values like 0.80106... 0.80108... 0.80112... and suddenly see it jump to 1.2308... 1.4257... 1.7963. Whenever I see this, I slap on the "slow the simulation" button and take a close look at what happened. Usually it's some minor, random change that made the genome much more fit than its ancestors, and random variations that happened to build on that start a "Rush". Fitness values that had been pretty stagnant then begin a large climb, before eventually plateauing or creeping along again.
 
So, what ARE you arguing, kleinman? Of course, I already know the answer: Genesis 1:1.

But, the relevant issue is that you have yet to prove Genesis 1:1, and you will not do so by showing that evolution is not purely the product of point mutation.

Ah, the million dollar question, that wont get answered. I get a bit distressed when I see such endless, convoluted, downright wierd arguments over extreme minutae, when slowly stuff is being dug up like intermediate fossils of where whales come from and the like. These people still go on the same warpath, with the conviction that if there is something at the very small and precise detail about evolution, it will automatically prove their belief system (Jeesus, Krishna, whatever) correct.

And that's just not the way it works.

As a side point, my ISP homepage ran a debate about god and evolution. I thought I'd wade in (its at http://boards.virginmedia.com/digital/soundbites/creationism.html?page=1 if I'm allowed for links yet, but its not important)

I was a bit saddened how the same questions get asked: "Why are they still monkeys if we evolved from monkeys?" "Why are there no transitory fossils?" (apart from the transitory fossils)

It ended up with accusations of mocking, and I am a fool for believing that the earth isn't young. I dont have biology training, but I found this stuff out by reading quite easily. I was quite shocked how little other adults are actually aware of this stuff. Education problems? (and this is in the UK, where I thought it wasnt so much of a problem)
 
I will say this: you concede that polymerases can "mutate so that they can cleave xeno-molecules like nylon,"

He said that ?

Well, there is a really long fossil record showing that what you say is irrational, actually occurred. Now you can moan all day long that it's mathematically impossible.

If reality disagrees with your mathematics, then you're bad at maths! :p

Apparently, since you dismiss the relationship of Rseq and Rfreq, you cannot know anything about the target organisms, other than their slowness in removing mistakes.

Is that all ev is about ?

So, what ARE you arguing, kleinman? Of course, I already know the answer: Genesis 1:1.

Hey, I know how to disprove Genesis 1:1.

Genesis 2:1.
 
Annoying Creationists

Kleinman said:
[Have any of you mathematically incompetent evolutionists learned anything about the mathematics of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process yet? ... Really, legal beagle?
Mister Earl said:
I was hoping your brief vacation would see you returning slightly more civil. I was wrong, I guess.
Now what are you whining about? I thought I was being more civil; after all, I could have called you evolutionists mathematically incompetent nutbags and I used to call kjkent1 lita’ gator which really annoyed him.
Kleinman said:
I don’t argue that polymerases can’t mutate so that they can cleave xeno-molecules like nylon, what I argue is that the evolutionists’ gross over-extrapolation of this microevolutionary process to the evolution of lizards to birds is irrational, illogical and mathematically impossible.
Mister Earl said:
I suppose I could ask you to prove that it is mathematically impossible, but I'm pretty certain I'd just get the same rehashed statements from before.
Correct, I will continue to rehash the mathematics of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process and the empirical evidence which supports it, now if only you evolutionists had something to rehash besides your tired old speculations and gross extrapolations.
Kleinman said:
The reason I make this argument is based on the mathematics of Dr Schneider’s ev simulation of random point mutations and natural selection which show that combination selection pressures profoundly slow the sorting/optimization process and hundreds of real examples of mutation and selection which demonstrates this same finding. You evolutionists have completely bungled the understanding of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process.
Mister Earl said:
I wonder what Dr. Schneider himself would think. I'm going to try to contact him via email, and bring him in on this discussion.
If you have trouble finding his email address, I’ll provide it to you, after all, I discussed Dr Schneider’s model with him for several months via email before going public. I think you are going to find it difficult to get him to discuss his model publicly anymore.
Kleinman said:
Really? You think the greater the number of selection conditions the faster the evolutionary process proceeds? Where are all you citations which show your contention?
Mister Earl said:
Rocketdodger posted this point in a much more fluent way than I could. You may want to review his "Kleinman FAQ".
Both rocketdodger and Adequate have proven to be complete incompetents in the mathematics of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process. Adequate has show some intelligence by withdrawing from this thread because all he was able to do was show that he was ignorant and self contradictory, rocketdodger continues to be sophomoric. If you want to believe that the greater the number of selection pressures the faster the evolutionary process proceeds, remember this, it is this type of irrational and illogical evolutionist thinking that contributes to the premature death of millions of people with diseases subject to mutation and selection.
Kleinman said:
Are you contending that frame shifts overcomes the mathematical fact the Dr Schneider’s ev program demonstrates that combination selection pressures profoundly slow the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process?
Mister Earl said:
Why is it your entire argument resides on "This is a mathematical fact" when you've never proven this? We've shown you why EV isn't a perfect simulator for biological evolution. I see no need to rehash this.
Not only is it a mathematical fact demonstrated by ev but it is also an empirical fact demonstrated by hundreds of real examples of mutation and selection I have already posted but will continue to post. You mathematically incompetent evolutionists have demonstrated nothing other than you have no idea how the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process actually works. You have an excuse, you are not a mathematician. People like Adequate who claim to be mathematicians have no excuse. Adequate’s stupid and contradictory assertions about how mutation and selection works set a Guinness record for stupidity.
Kleinman said:
Hey legal beagle, since you are such an expert on Dr Schneider’s ev model, why don’t you tell us why variations in
Kleinman said:
g have such little effect on the generations for convergence?
Mister Earl said:
Rocketdodgers model showed different results than yours.

Get your facts straight Mister Earl. It is Dr Schneider’s peer reviewed and published model, not mine and rocketdodger has shown nothing from his model other than assertions. Rocketdodger has presented no data from his model and no empirical examples which demonstrate his irrational and illogical claims.
Kleinman said:
Mister Earl, what mathematical model of mutation and selection are you clinging to? Oh wait, you evolutionists don’t need any mathematical model to prove your irrational and illogical theory. You have your speculations and extrapolations to prove your point. Mister Earl, do you think that increasing the number of selection pressures will accelerate the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process?
Mister Earl said:
I've got a simulator at home called "Framsticks". It's pretty nice. I've run a multitude of simulations on it, where I've cranked up the selection pressures to obscene levels. One of two things happen: First, complete extinction. Second, a multitude of genomes with superior fitness levels. Unlike EV, you can configure framsticks to utilize population levels and multiple, varying, selection pressures. I've run the same simulation with only one selection pressure, and at a low level, and those genomes only reach about 15% of the fitness level of the previous test in the same number of generations. If you'd like, you can download Framsticks, and I can send you the files to replicate my tests. Would you like to do this? If not, why not?
Why don’t you run a case with 3 billion sticks and see how long it takes to accomplish anything. You evolutionists like to take these trivial sorting/optimization algorithms and say this is the mathematical proof for your theory. This is what happens when you make irrational and illogical extrapolations. Oh, ev allows for varying populations, multiple and varying selection pressures, variable mutation rates and so on and it shows that the number of selection pressures dominates the mathematics of this process.
Kleinman said:
All you need to do Mister Earl is produce some mathematical or empirical evidence which show the combination selection pressures accelerates the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process. Sadly, you like other evolutionists are mathematically incompetent.
Mister Earl said:
More ad hominem attacks. Spare me your egotistical nonsense. Either give us definitive proof, or go cry somewhere else. Your pointless bluster doesn't cover up the fact that your argument has very little weight.
You evolutionists besides being mathematically incompetent are a collection of whining crybabies. The mathematical proof I have is from a peer reviewed and published mathematical model of random point mutations and natural selection and I have posted (and will continue to post) hundreds of real examples of mutation and selection which demonstrates exactly what ev is showing, that is combination selection pressures profoundly slow evolution by the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process.
Kleinman said:
Mister Earl, you never had any mathematical or empirical evidence to change my opinion. You think irrational and illogical speculations and extrapolations constitute a scientific argument. I’ll continue to show the mathematical data from Dr Schneider’s peer reviewed and published mathematical model of mutation and selection which Dr Schneider believes represents the essential variables in this process (and so do I) and the empirical evidence which substantiates the results from Dr Schneider’s model.
Mister Earl said:
Grab framsticks, and when I get home tonight I'll email you the two trial files. Then you can come back tomorrow and offer your point of view how my simulations aren't valid when you don't get the results you want.
If your framsticks algorithm properly models the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process, do the parametric study of varying the number of sticks, selection conditions, mutation rate and so on and see what the effects of varying these parameters are. In the meantime, I’ll continue to post the results of Dr Schneider’s model which was based on real biological data.
Kleinman said:
Who knows what Dr Schneider thinks of his algorithm anymore? Perhaps he has changed fields and now is a noodleologist?
Mister Earl said:
I'll email him and try to get him to join us.
I have asked him and he said he was busy with other things but that was more than a year ago.
Kleinman said:
My weekend was better than Friday; I mixed up my hair spray and underarm deodorant spray. My hair smelled ok but I couldn’t lift my arms for a day. Hey Mister Earl, isn’t it dangerous keeping a carnivorous cockatiel around the house?
Mister Earl said:
Very much so. We've had him for fifteen years, so I think he's just getting old and ornery. When he's in a good mood, it offsets a great deal of the biting. I just take his actions into context. (Old, ornery bird).
Maybe if you fed him a bit more he wouldn’t see you as a food source.
Kleinman said:
Have any of you mathematically incompetent evolutionists learned anything about the mathematics of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process yet? Let’s find out...(clip)
kjkent1 said:
kleinman, your reply to my posts and to others clearly demonstrates why you cannot successfully discuss your theory with anyone who doesn't already agree with you.
You don’t even agree with the data that ev produces. Until you evolutionists comprehend that the more complex the selection conditions are, the much, much slower the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process proceeds, we will never be in agreement on this topic. I have mathematical and empirical evidence of my claim and you have 10^500 alternative universes.
 
Kleinman, I see you are attempting death by mod. I'm only happy to oblige.


Please note that in your entire 1+ years of posting in this thread, have you not ever approached anything resembling a reasoned logical statement. During this whole time, you've failed to provide any evidence to support your claims. To put it simply, your theory is wrong becuase your assumptions are wrong. You've never been able to refute this statement. All you are offering now are insults and derisions.​
 
For the record, fitness landscapes generated for pressures that only target a single base are convex, which is what I was talking about when I said it, which is why I retracted that statement later in the context of pressures in general.

And you are simply wrong about ev, Kleinman.

1) The whole purpose of ev is to investigate Rseq and Rfreq -- this is explicitly stated by Schneider. If the simulation never converges on Rseq >= Rfreq, it means nothing meaningful is happening.

2) The fact that a perfect creature evolves in one generation when weights [0,1,0] or [0,0,1] means only that there are no spurious binding sites in the genome -- BECAUSE NO BINDING SITES HAVE EVOLVED YET.

3) How can the simulation converge to a perfect creature in six generations, using weights [1,0,0], when it is mathematically impossible to mutate enough bases to get binding sites for every gene, never mind fix them, in that time? Think about it. How many genes are there in the genome? How many mutations per base? Even if every mutation was perfectly placed, could you generate binding sites for every gene in a mere 6 generations? Do the math, you fool.
 
Now what are you whining about? I thought I was being more civil; after all, I could have called you evolutionists mathematically incompetent nutbags and I used to call kjkent1 lita’ gator which really annoyed him.
I suppose if you don't have evidence to back you up, you can always revert to the ad hominems and strawmen attacks. Gotta go with what is available to you, right?
Correct, I will continue to rehash the mathematics of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process and the empirical evidence which supports it, now if only you evolutionists had something to rehash besides your tired old speculations and gross extrapolations.
You need to provide math that proves it first. You haven't gotten around to that yet.
If you have trouble finding his email address, I’ll provide it to you, after all, I discussed Dr Schneider’s model with him for several months via email before going public. I think you are going to find it difficult to get him to discuss his model publicly anymore.
Sure, let's see if you have a different one than I do.
Both rocketdodger and Adequate have proven to be complete incompetents in the mathematics of the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process. Adequate has show some intelligence by withdrawing from this thread because all he was able to do was show that he was ignorant and self contradictory, rocketdodger continues to be sophomoric. If you want to believe that the greater the number of selection pressures the faster the evolutionary process proceeds, remember this, it is this type of irrational and illogical evolutionist thinking that contributes to the premature death of millions of people with diseases subject to mutation and selection.
Baseless speculation. Please provide evidence.
Not only is it a mathematical fact demonstrated by ev but it is also an empirical fact demonstrated by hundreds of real examples of mutation and selection I have already posted but will continue to post. You mathematically incompetent evolutionists have demonstrated nothing other than you have no idea how the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process actually works. You have an excuse, you are not a mathematician. People like Adequate who claim to be mathematicians have no excuse. Adequate’s stupid and contradictory assertions about how mutation and selection works set a Guinness record for stupidity.
Baseless speculation. Please provide evidence.
Get your facts straight Mister Earl. It is Dr Schneider’s peer reviewed and published model, not mine and rocketdodger has shown nothing from his model other than assertions. Rocketdodger has presented no data from his model and no empirical examples which demonstrate his irrational and illogical claims.
Dr. Schneider's model also says it doesn't factor in a large number of parameters that would be required to simulate biological evolution. Of course, this makes your model look bad, so you ignore this part and try to distract us with pithy insults and strawmen.
Why don’t you run a case with 3 billion sticks and see how long it takes to accomplish anything. You evolutionists like to take these trivial sorting/optimization algorithms and say this is the mathematical proof for your theory. This is what happens when you make irrational and illogical extrapolations. Oh, ev allows for varying populations, multiple and varying selection pressures, variable mutation rates and so on and it shows that the number of selection pressures dominates the mathematics of this process.
Yet you ignore the part where it says in the study that population sizes weren't used, along with a large number of other parameters. You ignore this part, because cherry-picking data demands you ignore it.
You evolutionists besides being mathematically incompetent are a collection of whining crybabies. The mathematical proof I have is from a peer reviewed and published mathematical model of random point mutations and natural selection and I have posted (and will continue to post) hundreds of real examples of mutation and selection which demonstrates exactly what ev is showing, that is combination selection pressures profoundly slow evolution by the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process.
No, your interpretation proves it. In order to use your interpretation, we'd have to ignore the rest of the paper stating it didn't use a large number of parameters that would be required to simulate biological evolution.
If your framsticks algorithm properly models the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process, do the parametric study of varying the number of sticks, selection conditions, mutation rate and so on and see what the effects of varying these parameters are. In the meantime, I’ll continue to post the results of Dr Schneider’s model which was based on real biological data.
I've already done so, as noted in my previous post. The stronger the selection pressures I use, the faster I get higher fitness values. If I keep them high and don't vary them, like in your "model", then I still get a higher fitness value than when I use one selection pressure. If I vary them during the course of the simulation, as would be expected during realistic conditions, then I get even higher fitness values.
I have asked him and he said he was busy with other things but that was more than a year ago.
It's all good. I'll contact him and see what he has to offer, if anything.
Maybe if you fed him a bit more he wouldn’t see you as a food source.
Just like you, Kleinman. Making observations and declaring it fact when you don't have enough data available to you. He bites with the intention of getting my intention, not for consuming human flesh. He does the same when he wants a bath. He flies to the sink, and yaps until I open the tap for him.
You don’t even agree with the data that ev produces. Until you evolutionists comprehend that the more complex the selection conditions are, the much, much slower the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process proceeds, we will never be in agreement on this topic. I have mathematical and empirical evidence of my claim and you have 10^500 alternative universes.
Slight correction. I don't agree with your interpretation of your results. The point where we differ is where I note that the paper itself says that EV isn't a good model for evolution, because for THAT PAPER, it didn't use a large number of variables that would be needed to simulate biological evolution. You ignore this part and all contradicting evidence. You always will, and I accept that. I'll sit here and watch like I have been doing, in the likely-vain hope that you'll see the flaws in your theory and decide to either patch them up, or do other testing to account for that.
 
Sol, do you still want to lose $10,000? Ev shows nothing of the kind and rocketdodger shows nothing.

You already refused to bet on that, I suppose because even you don't believe your claims. That makes you a lying hypocrite, and I see no point in further dialog with you. In any case it appears you are trying to goad the moderator into suspending your account, in which case the point will be moot.

Have a nice day.

Keep in mind the Membership Agreement and do not use personal attacks or insults to argue your point.
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Kleinman has been suspended for three days.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am the "whiny crybaby evolutionist" who reported him.
 
Reality vs. Math.

When they fight, who wins?

Depends on which one serves your current agenda.

(Unless you are a scientist, and then reality wins every time.)
 
Reality vs. Math.

When they fight, who wins?

Depends on which one serves your current agenda.

(Unless you are a scientist, and then reality wins every time.)

When reality and math fight, you have either your reality or your math wrong.
 
Kleinman has been suspended for three days.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am the "whiny crybaby evolutionist" who reported him.

But you don't know if you are the only "whiny crybaby evolutionist" who reported him.

I kinda like to study him... the anosognosia... the way everything he reads and spews must be filtered through the "evolution is mathematically impossible" filter that allows him to keep his favorite delusion alive. He never has to put any alternate theory on the table-- just keep himself from accepting this one and the delusion stands-- he "wins". Every time he gets the last word he props up his belief in his rightness without ever having to put what it is he is right about on the table for examination.

Kleinman is the prototypical creationist woo--almost a caricature of the species.

They have a foundational premise built on a straw man that props up their delusion --and they do everything in their power to keep that straw man looking like a real life person to them. In Kleinman's case, it's more a Pinnochio than strawman, of course.

(Oh shoot... now he's going to ad hom me... I must remember "formosa's law"--I hope he doesn't start in with the font abuse!)
 
But you don't know if you are the only "whiny crybaby evolutionist" who reported him.

No, in fact I reported him several times in the past weeks. A few insults, I can take; in fact, as you know, I dish 'em out, myself. But Kleinman's tantrum was out of control.

ETA: But the Godwin part was hilarious.

I kinda like to study him... the anosognosia... the way everything he reads and spews must be filtered through the "evolution is mathematically impossible" filter that allows him to keep his favorite delusion alive.

I'm sure quite a few psychologists would love this thread.

They have a foundational premise built on a straw man that props up their delusion --and they do everything in their power to keep that straw man looking like a real life person to them.

"To them" are the key words, here. Why they are actually doing this on a web forum rather than by their lonesome at home is a mystery to me: there's no actual difference.

ETA: Kleinman's almost at the point where he really does have a conversation with himself. "Hey, look at those mathematically challenged evolutionists! - You said it, pal! They don't understand how multiple constant directional selection presures profoundly slow down the evolutionary process. Yes, indeed, evolution is mathematically and empirically impossible and we've proven it with the hundreds of real-life citations we've provided ! You're the man, Kleinman! Thanks, you too."
 
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That's the way of the woo. They argue here because it props up their delusion that conclusions have been given careful scrutiny in the scientific community... and since no one could change their mind... they must be right.

It's sad. It's kind of schizophrenic. But some people would rather believe a delusion than understand that they've been fooling themselves. That's the nature of delusion-- sometimes it feels more real than reality... who needs evidence when you have faith...
 
As for wanting to teach Creationism in public schools -- let them try. But give those kids an earlier start on Philosophy and Reason, especially when it comes to recognizing fallacious statements and unsubstantiated data.

You know; the "Scientific Method."

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The only problem with the "Scientific Method" when dealing with some of these people is that if you read the home page of this group they feel that Rene Descartes is the beginning of the end for them. Because it is with his influence the scientific method came to be.
here's the url http://www.evolutionisdead.com/index.php
 
Suspended. Why am I not surprised ? Now he can go to answersingenesis and claim that we kicked him for being right.
He can claim victory if he likes. You'll not stop a liar from lying.

But you don't know if you are the only "whiny crybaby evolutionist" who reported him.
True. I just assumed it because it would be easier if he could attack one cry baby instead of all posters.


This thread is purely a debate on citizen kane.
http://tubearoo.com/articles/91406/Kids_in_the_Hall_Citizen_Kane.html
 
The only problem with the "Scientific Method" when dealing with some of these people is that if you read the home page of this group they feel that Rene Descartes is the beginning of the end for them. Because it is with his influence the scientific method came to be.
here's the url http://www.evolutionisdead.com/index.php
It's not often that a creationist comes up with a new lie, but that guy is actually equating natural selection with Lamarckian variation, isn't he?

As usual, it's hard to tell whether he's stupid, dishonest, or just off his nut.
 
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