Posted: Oct 20, 2018 1:36 pm
scherado wrote:I know what "referent" means.
It might be the only bit of the English language you're confident you know what it means. You didn't respond to the rest of my comment, perhaps because you don't know what it means. Try again:
Cito di Pense wrote:... Inheritance in its most general and abstract terms is only the retention of reactant structures in the product environment. If you've picked some other referent, ...
... There's nothing magical about a chemical reaction that produces species of its reactants as products.
scherado wrote:I also know that if there were no inheritance mechanism, then traits--that somehow, some way appear ("random mutation")--would never be passed to the next generation: we, all of us, would not be here discussing how we got here. We are discussing this, nevertheless, the same would be true about the subject theory: there would be no Theory of Biological Evolution.
Chemical structure is a trait, genius. Chemical structure has its own inheritance mechanism, and that is its structure. Genius.
scherado wrote:You wrote: There's nothing magical about a chemical reaction that produces species of its reactants as products.
How does that adduce toward a defense of (explanation of) the critical mechanism in the subject theory, known as "random mutation?" Do you understand the question? (I'm not whistling Dixie.)
I already told you: Chemical structure IS a trait. In organisms, some structures map to phenotype. If you don't understand how that works, you need to study chains of coupled reactions in biochemistry. I doubt you're tackling that any time soon.
Chemical structures can be modified. Randomly. When a self-replicating structure is modified, and that modification does not destroy its self-replication mechanism, the modification may persist. You're whistling in the dark, far as I can tell.
Don't hand me this shit now about "critical mechanism in the subject theory". You're doing an obvious bait-and-switch, here, because you've baited us with abiogenesis, gotten a bit of education (which you obviously don't comprehend) and have switched back to inheritance in organisms. Your shit is fucked up, here, man, and I'm the one who fucked it up for you. Don't thank me right away, if you're trying to save some face that now badly needs surgery. Thank me later.