Recent peer reviewed paper overturns Neo Darwinian mathematical model

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Yep, and it took quite a long time. Pretty incredible what God can set in motion
 
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Lol. Go learn things instead of condescending to me. I’m out.
 
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What you mean to say is science classes teach science. You won’t find a cosmogy class that isn’t biased towards GR. You’ll have to go to one of those fake universities if you want to not have to learn anything
 
Their abstract is very circumspect, as it should be in science. But if you read further, it’s a bit more subtle than that. Basener and Sanford (the authors of the paper I posted in the OP) kept a respectful distance from Fisher - preferring to point to the data available to Fisher at that point in history, rather than blaming him for excluding the genetic component. It’s more a matter of newer observations no longer being in accord with Fisher’s assumptions. Since Fisher’s assumption was a 1:1 deleterious to beneficial (if you look at Fisher’s book “Genetical Theory of Natural Selection” from 1930, he assumed the very worst were selected out and the remaining mutations balanced out to being fitness neutral). However since modern observations no longer accord with Fisher’s assumption (for instance Gerrish and Lenski’s 1998 estimate is 1,000,000:1) Basener and Sanford had to include a component to account for mutations. As they showed, their revised theorem predicts the same directional outcome as Fisher’s original - i.e. increasing fitness - ONLY when you assume 1:1. Otherwise, the new model which is capable of accounting for ratios other than 1:1, predicts decreasing fitness, even with a conservative estimate of 1,000:1.

If you look at Dr Sanford’s lecture to the NIH - which included mention of the paper we are discussing - you will notice he goes well beyond saying he’s just ‘fixing a flaw’ in Fisher’s work. See the link below:

 
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