Re: ABSRD BAND on Sinornithosaurus feathers

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/20/01 12:44:48 PM EST, TomHopp writes:

<< Nope. Just because it's small doesn't make it simple. >>

I said >could have occurred<, not >did occur<. But if as you say >all< body 
functions are controlled by complex sets of genes in complicated interrelated 
ways, then mutations would >never< be beneficial and evolution would not 
happen. It would be >extremely< unlikely (we're talking 1/googolplex 
probabilities here) for a complex suite of mutations to happen all at once 
and also to be beneficial to the organism. There must be times, now and then, 
when a single mutation produces a benefit to the organism despite the 
complexity of all its genomic interrelationships etc., etc. I'm not saying 
that the appearance of peach fuzz was such (some heavy genome analysis might 
show this to be the case), but it could have been, and if so, it would have 
simply opened up another pathway for sulfate to find its way out of the body 
and was thus beneficial to the animal.