Nested Hierarchies and Evolution
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For years I have been saying that evolution does not predict/ expect a nested hierarchy. And for as many years evotards have been saying that it does.
The difference is that I have provided the reasoning for my claims- reasoning that includes an evolutionary biologist's potential falsification of the claim that evolution predicts/ expects a nested hierarchy. That reasoning pertains to a mix of characteristics. With a nested hierarchy you cannot have that. Yet with the current theory of evolution we would expect to observe exactly that.
For example Kevin R. McCarthy (AKA OgreMKV) sez:
Ooops! That would be a violation of nested groups.
This is too funny as out of one side of their arses evotards claim evolution predicts/ expects and nested hierarchy yet out of the other side they provide examples that violate a nested hierarchy. And the real funny part is they don't even understand that is what they are doing!
So I will say it again- transitional forms, by their very definition, violate nested hierarchies.
For years I have been saying that evolution does not predict/ expect a nested hierarchy. And for as many years evotards have been saying that it does.
The difference is that I have provided the reasoning for my claims- reasoning that includes an evolutionary biologist's potential falsification of the claim that evolution predicts/ expects a nested hierarchy. That reasoning pertains to a mix of characteristics. With a nested hierarchy you cannot have that. Yet with the current theory of evolution we would expect to observe exactly that.
For example Kevin R. McCarthy (AKA OgreMKV) sez:
I'd just like to remind Joe, that of 24 distinguishing features between birds and dinosaurs, Archeopteryx has 17 that are dinosaur characters (and not bird) and only 4 that are bird characters (and not dinosaur). The remainder are intermediate between dinosaur and bird.
Ooops! That would be a violation of nested groups.
This is too funny as out of one side of their arses evotards claim evolution predicts/ expects and nested hierarchy yet out of the other side they provide examples that violate a nested hierarchy. And the real funny part is they don't even understand that is what they are doing!
So I will say it again- transitional forms, by their very definition, violate nested hierarchies.
3 Comments:
At 3:16 PM, oleg said…
Only if you use a crackpot definition of nested hierarchies.
At 4:53 PM, Joe G said…
"It would be very problematic if many species were found that combined characteristics of different nested groupings." Douglas Theobald
However seeing that YOU are too much of a feaking coward to provide a valid definition of a nested hierarchy from a valid source, you little blurt is totally meaningless- but it does expose your ignorance.
At 5:03 PM, Joe G said…
"A mix and match of characters like this would make it extremely difficult to objectively organize species into nested hierarchies." Ibid
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