Oh no -- Rosa is at it again!!!
Rosa Rube is currently spending "her" 2 cents on a new article which claims that several unrelated species of fish have "evolved" the same optimal solution for swimming.
Here is a link to the PLOS One:
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002123
It would be unfair of me to accuse Rosa herself of a mistake, as she merely copy / pasted directly from the paper and / or "Pop-Science" write-up and made it seem as if she used her own words:
"So, although starting from very different body plans, natural selection,
by favouring greater swimming efficiency, has caused the different
clades to converge on the same optimal solution.
This gives what is probably as simple an example as it possible to find
why natural selection acting on inherited variation can result in the
appearance of design for purpose. Given the mindlessness but
inevitability of the process it should be clear to see why this
convergence was inevitable. All that was required was that this
solution was possible and so available for evolution."
Rosa (et al) fail to comprehend that "Natural selection" and "Evolution" are merely implied in this paper (not observed at all) and the reason we call it "convergence" is ONLY because we know for a fact that this optimal design feature was not passed down through common descent, therefore, all species must have "Converged" on the solution.
Do these ignorant people not understand what "implied' means?
Do these people not comprehend what "presupposition" is?
My final thought: "Intelligent folks should be cringing at Rosa's kind of irrelevant and dishonest journalism."
You are more than welcome to defend yourself on our site, Rosa, without fearing the same kind of censorship that you employ on your shit blog.
ReplyDeleteWe'll keep up your comments and not delete them like you delete our comments -- as we like seeing you rant like a mental patient.