Fisher's failure and the dramatic end of Neo-Darwinism

RA Fisher was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th Century. He is also one of the primary founders of Neo-Darwinism, the field that claims to have unified Mendelian genetics with Darwinian natural selection. His main theorem remained untested for 90 years, but we now know where he went wrong. Yes, natural selection can increase 'fitness' over time, but only if you make unrealistic and demonstrably non-biological assumptions first.

Support for Biblical Genetics comes from my friends on

[owlfethurz]

The topic shown on the title begins about 6:20. Thank you.

[drchristopherjsernaque]

We love you Dr. Carter! You've still got your focus on Jesus, so that's the most important thing!!! 😊

[vironpayne]

Good stuff!

On your audio echo problem in "studio" there is an inexpensive solution. You might have seen PZM or Perimeter Zone Microphones for conference rooms that would tend to have echoes. Even though the mics are real technology, the magic or science is more about applying physics. In any given acoustical space there will be acoustical reflections causing echoes with nodes and antinodes that tend to be frequency related. In sound reinforcement this is treated mechanically with sound absorbers and speaker placement. In recording it can be treated with technique through careful microphone placement near a perimeter or boundary surface.

If you can place an echo free audio source where you would normally sit and speak, then listen to a microphone directly electronic through headsets as it listens to the source you can move the microphone around until you find an ideal position that nulls unwanted echoes.
I suggest placing a pair of fairly large books on your desk that form a corner. Then take a lavalier microphone and move it around in the corner. You should find that about an 1/8" or 2mm from the perimeter or boundary surface you should find echo free and sound uncolored in the frequency domain caused by nodes and antinodes. Any minor coloration can easy be adjusted out during recording or post production.
The great news its a free and easy to use technique.
I did live sound reinforcement for about 20yrs in small to medium size churches, until I started getting mild high frequency hearing loss. For almost twenty years I have been swing a camera in church at East Coast Coast Christian Center, Merritt Island, FL.

Proper technique and tools on the frontend saves time and headache on the backend.

I trust this will help, Viron.

[CollinBoSmith]

Have you see the stream Creation Myths did two months ago supposedly debunking the Sanford paper? I’d be interested in a response to that video.

[markbowman]

This is a great topic. The only sad thing I see is that few people will give enough brain time to examine the topic.

[truthbebold]

The problem with truth is the adherents to falsehoods always have access to the 'experts' views which supposedly debunk the truth and they never seem to find the best analysis. Itching ears, I suppose. Forgiven my attempt at making a point. I'm exhausted 🥴

[Greenie-x]

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I wonder if that works well on video. (?)
Thanks for another upload!

[mmaimmortals]

NS has nothing whatsoever to do with speciation. Nothing.

Speciation happens when populations become isolated and phenotypical changes occur.

Isolation happens for all kinds of reasons, none of which are NS.

Phenotypical changes occur through epigenetics and regulatory controls, many of which are triggered by dietary chemistry and environment, not NS.

People have always influenced population divergence, breeding selection, and phenotypical development in plants and animals.

NS, however real it may be, does nothing to influence speciation.

One primary reason is that neither the weaker nor the stronger need to be removed in order for a mutation to proliferate.
Each can go it’s separate way, reproduce at different rates, speciate, and preserve all of the variation.

For creationists, the key here is that the world was by and large empty after the Flood, so there was no real competition for space or food for at least centuries.
This allows populations to diverge over and over and over (and very rapidly), speciate and thrive without losing hardly any variation until either hunting begins eliminating variation, catastrophe like the ice age happens, or a geographic location is “full” and competition increases.

No NS required.

[hansdemos]

At 8:40, Dr. Carter helpfully shows a portrat of R.A. Fisher with a few salient points regarding the man. It fails to note that R.A. Fisher was a practicing Christian (Anglican, but still...) as well as a brilliant statistician, a racist and an eugenicist.
As far as I can understand the argument, it seems to me that Basener and Sandford just pointed out that mutations as such are not part of Fisher's theorem, but that they are part of a corollary to the theorem. Mutations were not yet very well understood in 1930, and expanding or adding to an older work does not destroy the older work.
Moreover, it seems that Basener and Sanford's article, though properly peer reviewed and published, has not really been picked up by their colleagues. Google Scholar indicates that it has been cited only 34 times in the 5 years since its publication. For comparison, a similar article about Fisher's theorem by Bolnick and Nosil ("Natural selection in populations subject to a migration load") from 2007 has been cited 254 times, almost 2.5 times more per 5 years. It looks like Basener and Sandford's view turns out to be an interesting outlier, but nothing fundamental.
In Dr. Carter's metaphor of the Hoover Dam, Basener and Sandford do not seem to have done any damage whatsoever to the dam itself. They may have put in an application to reroute one of the roads leading up to the dam, but even that application doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

[floydmorgan]

Sanford explains this so well in his book. Everyone should read it TWICE. ❤❤

[gladyskravitz]

Fisher is also mathematically wrong. Mutations don't work unless they happen fast enough to create a human out of a cell. Of course they don't even explain the cell itself. But to get a human from a cell you need to create different species that take hold then change. But humans have been about the same for 60K years. At that rate of change how do you get from a cell to a human in 2 billion years. There is not enough time unless their was a predisposition toward the human. Like a sperm and an egg have a predisposition toward a human, which happens in 9 months. Random change does not get you there in a couple billion years.

[goodquestion]

The Neo-christians (evangelicals with an arm tied behind their back) think that only one cell on the whole planet waits for a mutation to happen, while all the other cells in all living beings just go on with their day.

[jackwt]

If all the cells on Earth originated inside the earth, how to understand it.
Probably, in the very beginning, the Earth was a soft egg. 🥚Gradually, the Earth became a hard solid planet, like a turtle hatching process. 🐢
Maybe Jupiter is still an egg, 🪐 and when the sun becomes the next level of nova, Jupiter will sprouts life.🌻