Ready, Steady, Evolve

Stront writes "New Scientist is reporting that plants and animals can 'bottle up' evolution until they need it. A certain protein 'hides away' mutated genes acting like a genetic valet, however in extreme environments, such as high temperature or noxious chemicals, the cleaning process breaks down and the mutations are released all at once. This goes some way to explaining examples that are considered to defy standard evolutionary theory, such as the Bombardier Beetle."

Comments

"thinking"

[squaretorus]

According to evolutionary "thinking" there must have been thousands of generations of beetles improperly mixing these hazardous chemicals in fatal evolutionary experiments, blowing themselves to pieces. Eventually. we are assured, they arrived at the magic formula, but what about the development of the inhibitor?

Never trust any arguement that has to resort to putting thinking in quotes! Especially if the word 'god' is on the same page!

Re:Such a subtle mechanism

[Yokaze]

> This mechanism is so subtle, it is surely proof of an intelligent designer

OTOH, we are so dumb, this is surely a proof that there is no designer.

Furthermore, people are so dumb, that the universe must be a bad dream I'm having, and other people are just an imagination or representations of myself.

I must stop talking to myself.

Analogy to software projects

[jukal]

however in extreme environments, such as high temperature or noxious chemicals, the cleaning process breaks down and the mutations are released all at once

however in extreme environments, such as day before the deadline, the manager process breaks down and all the kludges are released all at once.