On Humping Strawmen

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Kevin McCarthy has another post with more accusations leveled at people who know evolutionism is bullshit. Kevin sez:

There’s actually two statements that I’d like to deal with here. The first is, of course, that most mutations are harmful. The second is that selection only removes alleles from the gene pool and therefore removes the variation that exists because of mutations. These two together or either separately is used as an attack on evolution. Both of these charges are wrong and the topics are closely related so here we go.

Unfortunately he dosn't reference this claim of what his opponents say. He never does which leads me to believe he is making it up or taking it out-of-context. However it is a fact that natural selection is eliminative. But no one sez what Kevin sed. Obviously if some are eliminated then some variations are also eliminated. But not all variation is removed as Kevin seems to be suggesting.

Next Kevin continues to choke on the so-called "silent" mutations. That is a muation that changes the nucleotide sequence but not the amino acid.

Now, that means that the particular codon can be hit with a variety of substitution mutations and it will not change the amino acid that fits in that spot. No change at all.

That is incorrect. We know of silent mutations which do alter the resulting protein. This is due to the fact that not all tRNAs are equally represented in any given organism. And that means the timing will be off at the ribosome because the required amino acid arrives a little late due to its lack of concentration. This timing mishap causes a misfolding of the forming protein, rendering it useless, or worse. See How silent muations can be harmful.

Reading Kevin's article further he now agrees with me as I have been telling him for years that natural selection is the survival of the good enough-

This isn’t what Darwin predicted, the old ‘survival of the fittest’, but it is, instead, ‘survival of the good enough’. In the real world, there may be multiple ways to survive.

Wow, pretty much word-for-word of what I have been saying for decades. Kevin is just now catching on. Strange.

 This paper is talking about alleles, not large scale features like that, but it’s an analogy to help you understand what I’m describing.

Well the organism is the unit of selection, not the alleles (Mayr "What Evolution Is").

Also if you have a alleles that get mutated and therefor change, well that original variant is lost. So while new variations are being created the old variants are being destroyed.