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Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced
Aneurysm writes "A project launched by the Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology will sequence the genome of Neanderthal man. The sequencing project may find out important information, such as whether they cross-bred with modern humans. Previous DNA tests have tested this theory, and found it unlikely. Could this be the start of a Pleistocene park?"
I'd prefer to see those little garden suckers made up to look like neanderthal's...
-FL
Is everyone overlooking the obvious underlying opjective of this project?
Create a new German Army made up of very strong, sturdy, and stupid soldiers to take over the world.
I think I saw this on a "Pinky and the Brain" episode...
VD
I for one welcome our new stone-tool-using overlords!
- dj
I foresee some corrupt corporation, government, or other power-mad organization creating the slave-race they've always dreamed of -- one that will be too ignorant to rise up and seek freedom and will instead fall down and worship them as gods. Of course they'd probably have to first kill off the existing homo-sapien "peons" that could object to this -- but we've already solved that problem. Only the "god-class" humans -- a rich and powerful elite that would monopolize technology -- could be allowed to exist in this scenario... hmmmm.
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You're trying to prove a theory by theorizing. You can't say that the theory stands because you assume similar things may have the same ancestors. Your proof is no better than a creationist's faith. Your proof is just that, Faith.
In order for this to work right, you would have to make a prediction based on evolution and then perform an experiment and verify your results. As I stated, many have tried and none have succeeded.
What you have done is found a bunch of evidence and then come up with a theory as to why you found what you have found. Then you went back and looked at your evidence and said it all supports your theory...Well NO SHIT SHERLOCK! --That's not how science works.
I never asked you to believe in creationism, I asked you to open your mind to the possibility that evolution is not the last word.
Find me a an example of one species evolving into another one. Not just a guess, but proof.
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Natural Selection does nothing to prove evolution. Are all still fruit flies? Better sanitation has also made man kind live longer.
What about the crops farmers raise?Natural Selection, or Selective Breeding does not prove Evolution.
I've seen trees in the wild all change color at the same time without any intervention from man.
Your list thus far supports variation and natural selection. I haven't said anything is wrong with variation or natural selection. They are both absolutely required! Without them, errors would crop up and the entire genome would collapse
Variation != Evolution
Your fruit flies are all still fruit flies. Corn is still corn. Regardless to how long t lives or how big it grows, these are all still within the limits of a kind. The information on how to grow big, small, long, short, tall whatever was all in the genome prior to these selections
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How many times must a tornado hit a junk yard before it makes a jet-plane out of all the junk?
You can't have random chemicals just make themselves into things and gradually become better. Entropy rules.
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Pure speculation based on an unproven theory.
As a matter of fact you have listed many theories based on other theories all of which are unproven.
In order for you whole concept to work, at some point you have to take on faith what kicked the whole thing off. Where did the DNA come from? Where did the mechanism for replicating said DNA come from? You have a chicken & the egg problem here. At some point your theory requires that life suddenly sprang up.
How does inanimate matter just become life? The analogy of a tornado hitting a junkyark hits this nail on the head. Until someone can prove "life from lifelessness" the rest of your theory might just as well go away. That little bump from non-living things to living things is one hell of a leap of faith at this point with absolutely nothing than speculation to back it up.
You can't even prove that one species really does come from another, you can't prove that living things sprang up from non-living things, you can't prove that mutations are beneficial. You can't even give an example of a new gene evolving. Even the closest example you can give on mutation is completely unvarifiable, and it is unlikely that even if something had happened it was nothing more than activating a gene that was already part of the genome. -I can turn a lightbulb off and on too, doing so will never make it anything other than a lightbulb.
There is no evedence of mutations writing new genes. There isn't anything above speculation on this. Without new genes you can't change something from one thing to another.
The theory of evolution more closely resembles a theological structure than it does science.
Creationism does not have any problem with survival of the fittest (or luckiest) and no problems with genetic variation. Creationism notes the similarities of the species and Creationism even believes in the existance of mutations. Those are the things you keep using to demonstrate evolution. They don't.
The problem with evolution is that it asks us to believe that the cumulative effects of errors (mistakes) over time causes living things to become more complex more ordered and more highly structured. There is nothing else in nature that does this. Why should we believe that life does?
This mechanism depends on diploid chromosome sets and dominance/recessiveness of genes.Where did the chromosomes come from? where did the genes come from? In order for this way of thinking to work, life would have to make the new genes in anticipation of needing them in the future... And you want me to believe that inanimate chemicals anticipated they needed to become alive and throughout the ages life anticipated it will need to have intructions to deal with a change it has not yet encountered?????
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