Valerie: Questions about TMR4A

[thoughtful (Valerie (non-scientist))]

@Rumraket

Jeanson dismisses the concept of the time-dependent mutation rate because it would undermine his argument that the higher pedigree mutation rates support his young-Earth timeline.

@Rumraket

That looks like deleterious mutations outside the zone of no selection. Deleterious mutations that aren’t invisible to selection. Those deleterious mutations that would contribute to the time-dependent rate of mutation. Jeanson and Sanford can’t both be right.

I’m sorry that maybe I didn’t understand what you were asking. His book is next on my list after Genetic Entropy. But I don’t think he dismisses time-dependent rate of mutation but instead checks against both evolutionary and creationist rates in his papers. Maybe I didn’t explain something correctly before. I’m still hazy on how these things are measured. I’m better at understanding the conceptual arguments.

Figures 1 and 2 I’m assuming are testing time-dependent rate. I think I said “de novo” before, but maybe that’s not a right explanation. Evidence Human Y Chromosome Molecular Clock | Answers Research Journal

Remember I’m a baby scientist. Trying my best.