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Likelihood

Likelihood

1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day ? (Shak)

2. Likeness; resemblance. There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation. (Sir W. Raleigh)

3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude.

Origin: Likely _ -hood.


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Evolution is not Darwinian

... adaptive nature of evolution; clearly, genomes show very little if any signs of optimal design, and random drift constrained by purifying in all likelihood contributes (much) more to genome evolution than Darwinian selection.

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by Forests
Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:29 pm
 
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Theories - Origin of Life

... to the environment, then how do they survive for so long and occur so frequently? Wouldn't their relative disadvantage/small numbers increase the likelihood that they would, by chance, fail to reproduce and thus remove their alleles from the population? I mean, we might expect that some would ...

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by Luxorien
Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:55 am
 
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... adaptive nature of evolution; clearly, genomes show very little if any signs of optimal design, and random drift constrained by purifying in all likelihood contributes (much) more to genome evolution than Darwinian selection. See Eugene Koonin, The Origin at 150: Is a new evolutionary synthesis ...

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Re: Natural selection ends in absurdity or nonsense

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... possible. So am I guilty of the selection bias here? The anthropic principle is about selection bias. I agree that it says nothing about the likelihood of a creator or creators – I was only trying to point out that a fine-tuning argument, which you seemed to be making, cannot distinguish ...

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