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The input of the environment is not random. Drought conditions mean less seeds for finches. Competitive pressures increase for survival and reproductive success. Beak size follows whatever is now the most efficient in the current environment. An enzyme mutation that allows more nutrients to be...

One point of random input into a system does not mean the whole system is random. Mutations and novel characteristic combinations result in different structures.

This is a measurement accuracy issue. Carbon can be detected in larger time frames but it is just no longer accurate. Other isotopes are accurate in longer time frames. Compare it to drug action on the body. The effectiveness of your thorazine diminishes as the drug leaves your system. A...

Epigenics involves dimmer switches on genes rather than mutations of genes. The dimmer switches can be passed to offspring. These are adaptive measures that are rather mechanical, not evidence of a designer. Harsh conditions trigger a variety of dimmer settings, and only the changes that are...

Natural selection is not random; it is systematic.

Let us see a link. C14 acts as a crude clock, as it decays at a known rate. However, it’s only useful for organic matter, and only up to about 40,000 years. After that, the amount of C14 is so small, its impossible to distinguish from the normal background amounts of C14. Bacteria, pollen, dust...

Mutations are often deleterious. However, they can also be neutral or beneficial. Additionally, Neutral mutations can become beneficial when the environment changes.

The half-life of carbon-14 is only 5,730 years, so carbon-14 dating is only effective on samples that are less than 50,000 years old. They didn't just make this up to hide that dinosaurs were on earth later than they theorized. They have to seek another method for dating anything over 50,000...

Epigenetics which modulates gene expression are responsible for faster reactions to sudden environmental change. The finches experienced a drought and medium beaked finches were effected the most. Large and smaller beaked finches did better. So, modulators of gene expression in addition to...

^ You cannot gage effectiveness using absolute numbers.

It does not. And, the reason why has been explained to you ad nauseum. I am out. Now, I really am nauseous. The very little credibility you had is gone.

Oh no you di--n't. Tell me you didn't double down on your idiocy. One news article says that, what does the other article say?

A population of birds can change in as little as two generations. Crossbreeding creates a hybrid species. I will look into these particular finches in the near future. It may seem that way but it is very relevant. Clete, yourself, and Spetner need to examine suppositions about chance and what...

WTHeck?

Amazingly, I have no trouble believing that your distant ancestor was a sea squirt.

I took me some Latin in High School. Spanish was gettin muy difacil.

Oh, I got me some book learning over the years. Only some undergrad courses in biology and evolution though. You?

LOL. If you had excess to a Biology professor and learned nothing, what chance do I have in helping you? You ran her out on a rail? Your loss.

Dr Spetner should stick with engineering and give up writing books outside his area of expertise. If I invited Spetner to a party of megabucks winners, he would refuse to acknowledge the party existed because it is statistically improbable to identify the guest list prior to a date where any...

Developments are so gradual it is hard to call anything new. Sometimes more rapid changes do occur. But compare two forms 1000 years apart and it will seem new. No, different not new is the concept to focus on.