John Edser wrote:
>>>Maybe there is some magical method by which the random part can be
>>>extracted after the fact, but that seems unlikely - only a part of the
>>>result that meets tests for randomness which is likely to be a
>>>different matter altogether.
>>
> 
>>Many of the more popular myths of the current paradigm 
>>of evolutionary biology pivot off a kind of rhetorical 
>>trick.  Specifically the trick involves employing a 
>>word that has more than one meaning in an argument (or 
>>special case) to achieve the illusion of scientific 
>>validity.  This is *all* that's going on with the 
>>Hardy-Weinberg, socalled, Law.  And you hit the nail on 
>>the head with respect to which word is the "pivot" with 
>>respect to how this rhetorical trick is manifested in 
>>Hardy-Weinberg: randomness.  
> 
> 
> BOH:- 
> Wierd.  The Hardy-Weinberg law is deterimistic: there is no randomness 
> in it.
> 
> JE:-
> "Wierd"? Dr O'Hara is not correct.
> The HW distribution is just a binomial
> distribution derived from Pascale's
> Triangle. 

Sorry, John, but there's simply no such thing as the "HW distribution" 
in the Hardy-Weinberg law.  If I'm wrong, then please correct me by 
pointing to the literature which places the "HW distribution" in the H-W 
law.

Bob

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