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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?
As little as possible.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
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.
Simple. "God works in subtle, mysterious ways. Who is to say that He did not create the universe in such a way that the precise results He wished to occur would occur, like an intricate, universe-wide set of dominoes? Could not evolution be the means by which He created man?"
If they continue to argue, hit them with a crowbar.
Wow. You just decoded the entire reason I don't run around killing people.
What do you think would happen if people started thinking about this more? Maybe we would soon see a "Hey, we have been wrong before so we will think a little more next time" popular uprising.
It will be chaos I tell you. People thinking thoughts.. talking to each other.. My god, I need my inhaler and HOMELAND SECURITY!!!
with their cyanobacteria cronies!
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Overwhelming majority of the early non-religious scientists were burned at the stake or at least didn't get the credit they deserved in their lifetime; I guess that's a theistic selection of sorts.
Or just skip step one. :P
40% of US residents believe in creationism. What are you going to say to them, huh?
"Awhh... forget about LHC... what do you think of Snooki?".
Is this good enough?
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
This sort of ad-hoc rationalisation can be used to account for absolutely anything imaginable. For instance, arguing that God created the whole Universe 5 minutes ago with everything in it and all our memories in a way to make it undistinguishable from a 13.7 billion year old Universe would be another example of ad-hoc rationalisation that can account for anything which is intellectually equivalent to your suggestion.
I know you don't necessarily believe in "domino theology", it is just something to use on creationists but in my experience there almost no chance that they'll change anything in their mind about the subject of evolution. For anything related to someone's religiously based beliefs it's hard to have any productive discussion.
There are 2 kinds of people in this world: Those who write in decimal and those who don't
The overwhelming majority of human progress has come from people who were or are highly religious.
Or claimed to be in order to escape the current Inquisition.
Have gnu, will travel.
On the other hand, many murderers, mass murderers even, are/were "highly religious" and of course, in the middle of those two extremes, there are many many many many many many many other people who have made no impact on society whatsoever, doomed to be excluded from the annals of history by their mediocrity who are (or were) "highly religious". You can't just hold up an example of a great scientist who was also religious and say:
"Look! That proves it!!! Human progress is impossible without Religion!!"
I think if you replaced Newton's headstone with a magnet and wrapped his coffin in wire, you'd produce a measurable current every time you did say that.
The "overwhelming majority of human progress" is in the past, due to the fact that the present is still happening and we can't see into the future. Society is becoming more secular. Many countries still have blasphemy laws. Some countries will stone you to death if you criticise a man who's supposedly an emissary of a prophet of a god. How many people were hanged/stoned/shot to death because of their godlessness who might have come up with calculus, or the "law of gravity" or the bagless vacuum cleaner or any one of a number of Really Great Things? How many were excluded from schools/universities because of accidents of birth, or because of their religious beliefs (which is pretty much the same thing).
How many scientists paid lip service to God and religion because it was an established social convention. How many scientists paid lip service to God because the church was giving them money? If you were studying at one of the earliest 12th-14th century(I think) church-run universities would you come out with a heretical theory that suggested that God might not exist? No. No you wouldn't.
To grab a fucking clue. Only the severely delusional believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The overwhelming majority of human progress has come from people who were or are highly religious.
That's because it took us 5,000 years of civilization to grow past our need to attribute everything we didn't understand to a mysterious power. Today we actually have the cognitive fortitude to admit our ignorance and lack of imagination. Those evolved among us do anyway.
Your "deeply-held belief", which is undoubtedly simply a circumstance of conceptive chance, rather than a profound understanding of theology and introspection, is not shared by a statistically significant number of modern scientists. So this silly claim you parroted (made up by far more intelligent religious hacks, good job crediting them by the way) proving religious belief has anything to do with scientific endeavor is plainly bullshit.
But go right ahead. Continue to take the coward's way out and claim that some deity is responsible for your mental failures if that helps you look in the mirror. Just do us a favor and quit trying to rewritite history as well.
No, because Theistic-Evolution is self-refuting. If God said he created in 6 days, but actually took billions of years, then that would make him a liar. If he's lying about how he created, then there's a good chance he's not telling the truth about being God either (basically the inverse of John 3:12). It also ignores the premise for Evolution; a way to explain origins without God. Something is very wrong with Evolution if you have to invoke God to get it to work.
Nice logic! Got another one for ya: The overwhelming majority of murders and rapes were committed by people who were or are highly religious. Guess that proves that theists are inherently immoral, eh?
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.
40% of US residents believe in creationism. What are you going to say to them, huh?
1) Go ahead and believe what you want.
2) Stay away from me.
3) Stay away from my school.
4) Stay away from my newspaper, website, street, neighborhood, job, and city.
5) You are free to go set up your own of those. Don't invite me.
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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."
Shut down the coal mines. Yes, coal, gas and oil have to go - basically carbon from underground that people burn. Limited resources, causing dispute, war, monopolies, smoke, soot, noise. Nuclear and hydroelectric works just fine, most of NYC trasportation runs on electric power. Millions of people get to work and back every day, fast with no traffic - on electric power. Get PRT and it'll be faster than any car-based system can ever be.
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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
The introns have also been deciphered:
AGTTACCATGGGA /* Support new standard RFC -3374, Oxygen as Fuel */ GGCTTCAAA....
Towards the Singularity.
If God said he created in 6 days, but actually took billions of years
What is a day? You do know that time isn't absolute; someone falling into a black hole will experience a day while everyone else experiences thousands, millions, or billions of years depending on how close he is to the singulariy, and how fast he's moving.
It also ignores the premise for Evolution; a way to explain origins without God.
Evolution doesn't explain life's origins at all. It explains how and why life has changed since it arose. We're still pretty clueless about how it actually started (although I did see an interesting theory in one of the science magazines). Also, the "way to explain origins without god" is false; if science finds proof of God (which I doubt will ever happen), science will fit God into its framework.
As it is, there is no reason for science to either include or exclude God.
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