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Scientists Decipher 3-Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils
hnkstrprnkstr writes "MIT scientists have created a sort of genomic fossil (abstract) that shows the collective genome of all life underwent an enormous expansion about 3 billion years ago, which they're calling the Archean Expansion. Many of the new genes appearing in the Archean Expansion are oxygen related, and could be the first biological evidence of the Great Oxidation Event, the period in Earth's history when oxygen became so plentiful that many anaerobic life forms may have become extinct."
I can breathe!
... now back to the bit mines.
Go here. Follow, read, and understand the links on the first, say, three or four pages of search results. Then, maybe, you'll know enough to have a meaningful opinion on the subject.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I'm confused. So they were on the Ark or what?
40% of US residents believe in creationism. What are you going to say to them, huh?
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
Two fires that found a way to indirectly fuel eachother over the millennia by way of oxygen. Somewhat romantic, actually. Actually makes more sense to give a flower in that context.
Ryan Fenton
This is what happens when you don't free() your genes after you're done with them.
Cue misguided references to Jurassic Park in 3... 2...
Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
Just flip a switch and the earth gets flooded with oxygen. Where's Noah when you need him?!
Is not that every living thing died, but that very few survived, and those very few could had common recent mutations (i.e. resistence to cold around ice ages) that could be misinterpreted as ancient genes as found in different species.
with their cyanobacteria cronies!
Wherever You Go, There You Are
If there had been CO2 dependent intelligent life at the time they would have phrased the rise in O2 in the same terms we frame the rise in CO2 today, O2 would be a form of pollution, an ecological disaster, something preventable if only the oxygen producing life forms would just restrain themselves. Just as then, the problem we face now is not an artificial one. We are part of the ecosystem, taken as a mass we're no more intelligent than the oxygen producing life forms in the previous event. As a mass we just do what we need to in order to survive. There's no guarantee of our survival or any other species on the planet. I'm only comforted by the fact that we might be even harder to kill than the cockroaches most suggest will inherit the planet after we're gone. We may fall back to three forms of life on the planet, us, some yeasts and some algae. (although, there may be a dark horse running in the back of the pack in the form of the jellyfish. we'll be able to have yeast butter and jellyfish sandwiches. )
... God created rust.
Have gnu, will travel.
>Whack u upsida hed! Short version, please. Demonstrate how the abstract pin head in question can support that many dancing angels. Try to imagine your audience is U. S. Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of HELP, and the upshot will be your cut of guvmint grants for 2012.
``Tension, apprehension & dissension have begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The Demolished Man_
It's "ultraGod."
"Ultragod" is too easily confused with the GodUI, a buggy framework responsible for the segfault in the Red Sea.
Things started to improve about 2,000 years ago with the introduction of God On Rails, although this still has reports of Christians with evidence of memory corruption.
You have only to look at the fairly well accepted theory that plantlife on Earth provided all the oxygen that now exists on it, to realize that living things can indeed change the planet and make in uninhabitable.
Good thing for us, not so great for lots of anaerobic bacteria that may have been around before.
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I keep tellin you fools, I DON'T SWALLOW !!! and definitely not this shit.
besides that, I don't return favors . . . . EVER!!!
The oxidizing event was the appearance of the mushroom which drifted in from spores floating through space.
Science Daily Article
The dates don't really match, but do they ever?
"The world is a construct of forceful imagination. Those who don't know walk around in the reailties of those who do"
Wow, the first result is very interesting, and mostly understandable, because the ideas read much like similar programming concepts. And it even contains a car analogy!
The character ’existence of engine’ is compatible with the tree of Figure 2.1 (a) as the
motor is invented once in the edge connecting the root and the common ancestor of car and
motorcycle. The same character is not compatible with the tree in Figure 2.1 (b) where the
engine is invented twice. The character ’number of wheels’ is compatible with both trees.
Let's get rid of all that oxygen! Take all the stuff that came out of the atmosphere over billions of years and solidified underground, and burn it to combine it with the oxygen, convert all that breathable O to CO2. Let's give every human on earth machines to convert large amounts of O into unbreathable CO and CO2.
Build your own energy sources from scratch. http://otherpower.com/
Newton was, for the time, a religious freethinker who as evasive about his views because otherwise he would have been thrown out of Cambridge. Theologians conclude that he was probably a unitarian, and my own thinking when I was studying Newton's beliefs is that Newton defined his idea of God to support his idea of how the Universe worked - Newton's God is basically a "framework God" which supports the idea of a rigid, unbending universal architecture that guarantees his laws of motion. It is at the opposite extreme from the Christian God, who is, in effect, an emotional interferer.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
We have all read those reports about a so-called "environment change" that would be caused by high level of oxygen released in the atmosphere by archean activity. I can tell you that there is no strong evidence that this oxugen level is rising, nor that it is due to us, and that it is dangerous at all ! The groups that try to refrain us from consuming fossil compounds are trying to hinder archean economy! We do not want to hide in caves! Evolution will provide us with new solutions to cope with this hypothetical change. God bless Gaia.
"[...] could be the first biological evidence of the Great Oxidation Event [...]"
Instead of finding evidence to support a theory, I propose that scientists find a theory that matches the evidence.
Admittedly, I know very little about the theory of the Great Oxidation Event, but it sounds like the theory existed long before "the first biological evidence" did.
The Creationist's Galileo Moment : Genetics Proves Evolution
When chicken embryos start to develop they have teeth buds and the beginnings of multi segmented tails. As they develop their DNA tells the developing embryo to absorb them. Much like human embryo's absorb embryonic gill slits. Now if you turn off the genes that control this absorption instruction you get chicken embryos that develop long multi segmented dinosaur tails and meat eating dinosaur teeth complete with the serrated inside edge. Other studies have also been successful in regressing feathers into scales.
This is not hypothesis. This is not supposition. This is not interpretation. This cold hard, hold in your hands see with your own eyes type reproducible proof. It has already been done, in Canadian universities no less, and is documented and reproducible. One more thing. No DNA was ever added to the bird DNA. This was done using 100% pure chicken DNA.
They have proved that bird DNA contains genes that create dinosaur characteristics. The only way this can happen is through the evolutionary process.
So like when Galileo first pointed his telescope at the heavens and learned that Aristotle was wrong modern scientists have pointed their microscopes at developing bird embryos and learned that they are correct. Evolution is real.
Now just to make things easier for Creationists, yes I realize that you prefer to get your education from YouTube U. as I know reading non religious articles is such a chore for you, here are the names and institutions that you can use as starting points for your research. However you must remember to get the best results from your Internet searches do not to include the terms 'Bible, Creationist, Intelligent DesignID,religion,God' in your queries.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
And I for one welcome our new aerobic overlords.
The introns have also been deciphered:
AGTTACCATGGGA /* Support new standard RFC -3374, Oxygen as Fuel */ GGCTTCAAA....
Towards the Singularity.
Prokaryotes tend to have simple, fully coding genomes. They tend to lose any special genes not necessary for the current environment.
Eukaryotes have large DNAs, some approaching a trillion bases, with up to 99% non-coding junk and lots of duplicated genes. They produce a lot more proteins than simpler microbes. Nikc lane in a letter to Nature a couple months ago suggested the difference was the presence of mitochondiria that gives the luxury of 20x more energy than basic microbes.
Sounds like a Michael Jackson house party.
Currently hooked on AMP
Actually single mutational events can be retracted. And this does occasionally happen.
The reason we tend to say that evolution can't be reversed is basically entropy, i.e., the same reason you can't unscramble an egg (if you haven't gotten to the point of turning on the fire).
I'd say that it was fair to call it an irreversible process except that occasionally single mutational events are reversed exactly. But the process is generally so complex that the chance of this happening is generally extremely slight. And instead you get something like a dolphin or orca instead of a shark.
Yeah, I'm being picky. I'm a programmer, what did you expect.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.