x_maker: (Questions of science)
John Henry Forge ([personal profile] x_maker) wrote2007-11-28 12:03 pm

An interesting thought...

How many of us have at least one parent who is also a mutant?

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2007-11-28 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
an "expert in the field" who's trying to use Mendellian genetics

And there's your problem right there. Even I know that Punnett Squares aren't going to explain heredity of the mutation.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2007-11-28 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
My thought exactly. And so far as I can figure it, the numbers are still on the side of mutation as an incredible rarity. Sure, the likelihood of having a mutant child is higher if one of the parents is also a mutant, but it's not a guarantee.

Now we just have to convince the FoH that we're not trying to use Marius to breed homo sapiens out of existence.

[identity profile] x-pressive.livejournal.com 2007-11-28 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the same bullshit that they spout when they want creationism "intelligent design" taught in science class. It's all a purposeful misunderstanding of how it all works.

And for the record, neither of my parents are mutants.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2007-11-29 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
It is not I the FOH should be worried about. The three spawn of one Cartier St. Croix to have reached the appropriate age of manifestation have, indeed, manifested. Perhaps this would be worrying if not for the fact that the current quality of mutations imply at least a 2 in 3 chance the FOH need only wait for the bloodline to implode.