Dsterncardinale's Review of Traced by Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson

[thoughtful (Valerie (non-scientist))]

@CrisprCAS9

Why aren’t you wondering about Jeanson’s lack of curiosity?

I have. I feel like I’ve said something like this more than once when replying to @mercer, but I could only find this instance quickly.

One of his audiences is mainstream biologists and he’s just needs more lab data to back him up; any argument about new theory just isn’t going to be accepted without it. Yes, it is frustrating that AIG doesn’t make lab work a priority.

Replacing Darwin Made Simple

Why not, other than the obvous tribal reasons? Well for one thing I don’t see the argument comparing the phenotypic development of a frog to the phenotypic diversity of cats as a bad argument. But it only makes sense from a creationist perspective. Because if the genome controls for phenotype then that means it can contain the diversity in both cases if it is originally created. I also think what he is trying to do to advance his ideas is very difficult, in terms of writing. As I see it, he has three audiences to appeal to with new ideas, well, now 4: One of his audiences is mainstream biologists and he’s just needs more lab data to back him up; any argument about new theory just isn’t going to be accepted without it. Yes, it is frustrating that AIG doesn’t make lab work a priority. Another audience is mostly lay creationists, the vast majority who have no idea what the state of mainstream science is and need complicated concepts explained in a digestible way- not easy. A third au…

@Herman_Mays

Positive selection and drift are two different things. Molecular clocks rely solely on NEUTRAL variation (variation without a selective advantage). If selection is going on that changes expectations pretty dramatically. So if we go by your hypothesis then we could not apply a molecular clock to these data.

Ok, good point.

@Herman_Mays

You are desperately probing around trying to find any way you can to salvage Jeanson’s conclusions for really no other reason than those conclusions agree with your prior beliefs.

Well, because of my prior beliefs I’m curious how well his conclusions hold up scientifically. And I keep pressing to see how much is due to bias or differing interpretations of the data. And asking questions and engaging in conversation has been worthwhile; it challenges me and then I learn something new.