"...An observed correspondence or correlation between some DNA codes and some amino acids, is not and will never be a causal relationship. "
Emphasis mine.
I hate to spoil it for the reader, but the writer of that uninformed nonsense is - are you ready? - anti-Darwinist computer-model maker Warren Bergerson...
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I spoke too soon - later in that thread, Bergerson writes:
"All you pointed out was the the analysis presented was not consistent with your unsupported, unscientific ideology. "
Wow...
Don't it make your brown eyes blue?
Hi Andrey,
I know what Bergerson wrote - but writng a bunch of irrelevant mumbo-jumbo to back up a stupid claim is not a 'defense', as far as I am concerned. Bergerson is truly clueless.
Hi RBH,
Bergerson has claimed to be engaged in 'writing' models of human behavior. I had always thought he was an actuary, but he had 'dropped hints' that he had an engineering background. He has also alluded to his "undergraduate classes" in which he claimed that he remembered discussing 'hard science principles' and 'predictive theories' and his usual mumbo-jumbo. He would never, of course, say where he went to college, or what he actually did/does. I think in addition to thinking that computer modeling lingo and concepts (e.g., 'predictive theories') apply directly to things he does not understand, he also has a bit of an honesty problem.
Jeebus -
Good point (re: genotype not equal to phehnotype), however, I think that unless one has the genetic 'predisposition' for trait X, one will not exhibit trait X.
Aaron -
Good points. If you have not encountered Bergerson before, I think you can see what sort of nonsense one has to put up with from that guy. As RBH can attest to, he NEVER provides any sort of support for ANYTHING he claims, declares that asking him to support his lies and false claims is 'political', says that anyone who points out flaws in his attempts to apply his math to biology is simply ignorant of the math, etc.
A kook, to be sure, but a kook that gets around on the net and needs to have his false claims countered.
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