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oth er words, the en ti ty you re fer to Punctuated Model of Evolution.)
as "me," which thinks, loves, feels Since mu ta tions have a de struc tive
an ger and sad ness, and that ex pe ri - ef fect, then the ma cro-mu ta tions re -
en ces pleas ure or pain, is not a ma te - ferred to by the pro po nents of punc -
ri al en ti ty in the same way as a ta ble tu at ed ev o lu tion would lead to ma -
or a stone is. jor dam age in liv ing things. Some
But ma te ri al ists say that the mind ev o lu tion ists place their hopes in
can be re duced to mat ter. According mu ta tions oc cur ring in reg u la to ry
to their claim, the way we think, genes. However, the de struc tive
love, feel sad ness and all our oth er char ac ter that ap plies to oth er mu ta -
men tal ac tiv i ties ac tu al ly con sist of tions al so ap plies to these. The prob -
chem i cal re ac tions tak ing place lem is that any mu ta tion is a ran dom
among the neu rons in our brains. change, and any ran dom change in
Our love for an oth er per son is a such a struc ture as com plex as DNA
chem i cal re ac tion pro duced by cer - gives rise to dam ag ing con se quen -
tain cells in the brain, and our feel ing ces.
fear in the face of an ap pro pri ate The ge net i cist Lane Lester and
event is still an oth er chem i cal re ac - the pop u la tion ge net i cist Raymond
tion. The well-known ma te ri al ist Bohlin de scribe the mu ta tion pre dic -
phi los o pher Karl Vogt de scribed this a ment:
log ic in the fa mous words, "Just as However though ma cro-mu ta tions of
liv er se cretes gall, so do our brains many va ri e ties pro duce dras tic chan -
se crete thought." 202 ges, the vast ma jor i ty will be in ca pa ble
Gall is a ma te ri al flu id, of course, of sur viv al, let alone show the marks of
but there is no ev i dence to sug gest in creas ing com plex i ty. If struc tur al
that thought is al so just mat ter. gene mu ta tions are in ad e quate be cause
of their in a bil i ty to pro duce sig nif i cant
enough chan ges, then reg u la to ry and
REGULATORY GENE de vel op men tal mu ta tions ap pear even
less use ful be cause of the great er like li -
It is ev i dent that mu ta tions give
hood of no na dapt ive or even de struc -
rise to no ev o lu tion a ry de vel op - 203
tive con se quen ces.
ment, which pla ces both neo-
Experiments and ob ser va tions
Darwinism and the punc tu at ed
show that mu ta tions de vel op no
mod el of ev o lu tion in a very se vere
new ge net ic in for ma tion, but on ly
pre dic a ment. (See Mutation and The

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