Annoying Creationists
“Perfect creature” and “binding sites” is not reflective of what the ev sorting algorithm is modeling. All that ev is doing is sorting sequences based on sorting conditions and it shows how profoundly slow the process is when multiple sorting conditions are used simultaneously. This also is what happens in nature as the hundreds of citations posted shows.Kleinman said:I continue to point this out because Dr Schneider and you have adopted sloppy terminology for your computer simulation. The sequences of bases that Dr Schneider’s sorting algorithm evolves have nothing whatsoever to do with binding sites. They are simply sequences of bases which satisfy the selection conditions.Paul said:Perhaps you haven't noticed that when someone creates a computer model of a natural process, they tend to talk about the components and aspects of the model using the same terminology used for the natural process. In no case that I know of do they think that the model is the actual thing.
What is odd about the sorting approach that I am using with your model? All I am doing is showing you what you model does when the sorting conditions are simplified. I will continue harping on this and posting more citations which substantiates this because this is how the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process actually works. You evolutionists are in denial.Kleinman said:I added the highlighting. Ev is not evolving binding sites for an artificial ‘protein’. Ev is only sorting sequences of bases which satisfy the sorting conditions, nothing more and nothing less.Paul said:But then, if we continue to use your odd sorting approach, that is all that is happening in nature, too. So why keep harping on it?
And I’ll continue to tell you that ev is not evolving any function or any binding sites. Ev is simply a sorting algorithm that demonstrates how slow the sorting process is when multiple sorting conditions are applied simultaneously.Kleinman said:You continue to make this idiotic statement that somehow ev is evolving function. Ev is simply a sorting algorithm, sorting sequences of bases which satisfy the sorting conditions, ...Paul said:... and ultimately evolving a gene with the function of binding to binding sites but no other positions.
Yes, because evolutionists believe this nonsense and will teach it to children. It will slow the understanding of how mutation and selection actually works.Kleinman said:Irrational and illogical assertions like Adequate’s and rocketdodger’s that n+1 selection pressures evolve more rapidly than n selection pressures is a perfect example. If infectious disease experts listened to this nonsense, they would not use combination therapy to treat HIV, HBV, HCV, Malaria, TB,Paul said:Their assertion contributes to the premature death of millions of people?
Yes, because it obfuscates the understanding of how the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process actually works.Kleinman said:Your irrational assertion that ev is somehow evolving function when all ev is doing is sorting sequences of bases and shows that this sorting process becomes profoundly slow when you have multiple simultaneous sorting conditions.Paul said:This assertion of mine contributes to the premature death of millions of people?
What discontinuity? Ev still converges when you have three pressures; it just doesn’t converge on your perfect creature. You have this mistaken belief that ev has only a single local optimum.Kleinman said:Paul, there is no discontinuity in the convergence of ev when you use only a single selection condition. It is the increased complexity of multiple sorting conditions that profoundly slows the ability of ev to do the sort.Paul said:But why are there discontinuities when you have three pressures?
Of course I don’t think that. I no more think that you will have the same result with ev when using 1 versus 3 selection conditions than I think you will have the same result when treating HIV with monotherapy versus 3 drug combination therapy. If you increase the number of selection conditions in ev to 4, you will slow the sorting process even more so, just as the evidence is now starting to appear that 4 drug therapy for HIV works better than 3 drug therapy. How surprising that the mutation and selection sorting/optimization process would work like this.Kleinman said:Paul why don’t you do a curve fit for the generations for convergence as a function of the number of selection pressures? Oh, that’s right; you have made the idiotic assertion that sorting based on only one of the three selection conditions gives a different function.Paul said:Do you think you end up with the same result regardless of the number of pressures?