Today's flaw pertaining to the twisted and fantasy like world of evolution deals with Mendel's Laws. To quote from the book: "Mendel's laws of genetics and their modern-day refinements explain almost all physical variations observed in living things." What Mendel stumbled across was the fact that it is possible for genetic material to be reshuffled from generation to generation, resulting in a variety of "breeds" as it were. This can be exemplified with such illustrations as different breeds of dogs; there are great danes, german shepherds, poodles, etc. Mendel also found, however, that genetic material cannot be created from generation to generation. As a result there is a limit to the amount of variation that can occur. Say you have five different colored pens in a row. You can make a number of different combinations using those pens, but in the end you will still have only those five pens; they will just be laying in a different order on the table. Likewise, our progenitors needed to have the same genetic material we do because genes can only be rearranged, not created. The concept is very similar to yesterday's EFD concerning acquired characteristics. Tomorrow we will deal with the topic of Bounded Variations, which will also help further explain today's.
~Tribal~
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