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Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance
pnewhook writes "The New York Times is reporting that 'by reconstructing ancient genes from long-extinct animals, scientists have for the first time demonstrated the step-by-step progression of how evolution created a new piece of molecular machinery by reusing and modifying existing parts. The researchers say the findings, published today in the journal Science, offer a counterargument to doubters of evolution who question how a progression of small changes could produce the intricate mechanisms found in living cells.'"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
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God rests his case.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
If the Great Creator Spaghetti Monster wanted you to read the article, he'd have provided you with a free registration.
Oh You POS
No silly.
Don't you realise when god put all the animals onto the Earth, some obviously missed and were embedded into the rocks.
Its like when ensign redshirt gets beamed inside a mountain.
liqbase
Wasn't sympathy from Sir Mick Jagger enough?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
so your saying god makes misstakes? heretic!
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
I never said this DISPROVES a personal god, but it does show that the personal god as described in... well... most western monotheistic religions is not actually necessary for us to have gotten from a single cell floating around in a broth to the walking, thinking, complex organism that we are today. This makes the existance of that god less likely, as there is an alternative path of events that could have happened, as defined by natural laws, for us to get where we are today.
If I go somewhere to eat and there are only hamburgers on the menu, I will order a hamburger (assuming that I order something, but us existing would be the correlary to ordering SOMETHING off the menu.) If there are hamburgers and chicken salad on the menu, it is less likely that I will order the hamburger as I could order the chicken salad instead. Wow... did I just compare god to a hamburger?????
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
"definately"
I take that as no insult from someone who can't spell "definitely".
Just because he has Dr. in front of his name doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about or isn't trying to mislead you.
Oh You POS
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