Mendel’s Laws

Mendel’s laws of genetics and their modern-day refinements explain
almost all physical variations observed in living things. Mendel
discovered that genes (units of heredity) are merely reshuffled from
one generation to another. Different combinations are formed, not
different genes. The different combinations produce many variations
within each kind of life, such as in the dog family. A logical
consequence of Mendel’s laws is that there are limits to such
variation (a). Breeding experiments (b) and common observations (c)
have also confirmed these boundaries.

a.	Monroe W. Strickberger, Genetics, 2nd edition (New York: Macmillan
Publishing Co., 1976), p. 812.

Alfred Russel Wallace, who independently proposed the theory of
organic evolution slightly before Charles Darwin, was opposed to
Mendel’s laws of genetics. Wallace knew Mendel’s experiments showed
that the general characteristics of an organism remained within
distinct boundaries. In a letter to Dr. Archdall Reid on 28 December
1909, Wallace wrote:

“But on the general relation of Mendelism to Evolution I have come to
a very definite conclusion. This is, that it has no relation whatever
to the evolution of species or higher groups, but is really
antagonistic to such evolution! The essential basis of evolution,
involving as it does the most minute and all-pervading adaptation to
the whole environment, is extreme and ever-present plasticity, as a
condition of survival and adaptation. But the essence of Mendelian
characters is their rigidity. They are transmitted without variation,
and therefore, except by the rarest of accidents, can never become
adapted to ever varying conditions.” James Marchant, Letters and
Reminiscences (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916), p. 340.

b.	“Every series of breeding experiments that has ever taken place has
established a finite limit to breeding possibilities.” Francis
Hitching, The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong (New Haven,
Connecticut: Ticknor and Fields, 1982), p. 55.

“All competent biologists acknowledge the limited nature of the
variation breeders can produce, although they do not like to discuss
it much when grinding the evolutionary ax.” William R. Fix, The Bone
Peddlers: Selling Evolution (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.,
1984), pp. 184–185.

“A rule that all breeders recognize, is that there are fixed limits to
the amount of change that can be produced.” Lane P. Lester and Raymond
G. Bohlin, The Natural Limits to Biological Change (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1984), p. 96.

Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried: An Appeal to Reason (Ipswich,
Massachusetts: Gambit, 1971), p. 36.

William J. Tinkle, Heredity (Houston: St. Thomas Press, 1967), pp. 55–
56.

c.	“... the distinctions of specific forms and their not being blended
together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious
difficulty.” Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 6th edition (New
York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1927), p. 322.

“Indeed, the isolation and distinctness of different types of
organisms and the existence of clear discontinuities in nature have
been self-evident for centuries, even to non-biologists.” Michael
Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (London: Burnett Books, 1985),
p. 105.

http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences6.html#wp1072162

Pahu78@gmail.com wrote:
> Mendel’s Laws

... or if want the truth, rather than an attempt to misinterpret 
some excellent science, then you can follow this link:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

<<It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially 
those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state 
clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at 
issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the 
relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a 
fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion 
years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at 
least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is 
at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms 
now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no 
birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life 
forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs 
and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all 
living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present 
forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds 
arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who 
pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these 
facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, 
rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.

The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative 
importance of various forces in molding evolution.

- R. C. Lewontin "Evolution/Creation Debate: A Time for Truth" 
Bioscience 31, 559 (1981) reprinted in Evolution versus Creationism, 
op cit.>>

regards, Ian

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