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Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
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Here’s a strategy to make money from your expertise!
There is some bad news, though.
Here’s a website of mutating pictures, a collection of images made with a splatter of scattered triangles. Your job is to browse through them and score them for how much they resemble a face — which isn’t easy. If I stare at any random pile of symmetrical shadings, they all start to look like faces to me.
Anyway, pictures that get higher scores produce more progeny, with slight mutations, in the next round of picture generation. You can see where this is going…
Casey Luskin has to be a bit of an embarrassment to the IDists…at least, he would be, if the IDists had anyone competent with whom to compare him. I tore down a previous example of Luskin’s incompetence at genetics, and now he’s gone and done it again. He complains about an article by Richard Dawkins that explains how gene duplication and divergence are processes that lead to the evolution of new information in the genome. Luskin, who I suspect has never taken a single biology class in his life, thinks he can rebut the story. He fails miserably in everything except revealing his own ignorance.
It’s quite a long-winded piece of blithering nonsense, so I’m going to focus on just three objections.
Cosma has to go and show off with a magisterial demonstration of why he is the smartest man on the internet: he’s written an exceptionally thorough description of heritability and IQ. It’s not a light read (statistics and genetics!), but it’s probably the most informative thing I’ve read in a month or more.
I’m sure I’m going to have to read it a few more times before I’ve absorbed it all.
