They way I understand this (and I'm certainly no expert) is that at the altitude where he's going to be supersonic the air is so thin that, although he's creating a "sonic boom" it won't be causing near as much force as it would with thicker air. Basically it's the same effect, but lower forces are involved because of the lower pressure. (Of course I've been wrong before....)
Here's a little something to chew on. See if you can guess how many seconds it took to make the "essay" argue for God.
Feb. 21 -- The media flubbed the headline for the biggest news event in the past 50 years of science. The reporters and TV talking heads who crammed the Washington, D.C., press conference on Feb. 12 did understand that the details they were hearing about the human genome offered the story of a lifetime. But, they missed the real headline. Their stories should have simply said, "God vindicated!"
MOST REPORTERS ballyhooed the fierce competition between scientists working for the publicly funded Human Genome Project and those employed by the privately funded Celera Genomics Corporation of Rockville, Md., to gain credit for the discovery. Others wondered about the financial implications of allowing human genes to be patented.
Still other headlines were meant to give us pause about whether it would be good or bad to know more about the role genes play in determining our health. Knowing more about our genes, after all, might not be so great in an era in which there is not much guarantee of medical privacy but a pretty good chance of discrimination by insurers and employers against those with "bad" genes.
There were even a couple of headlines that suggested that humanity should not be quite so arrogant since we do not have as many genes as we thought relative to other plants and animals. In fact, as it turns out, we have only twice as many genes as a fruit fly, or roughly the same number as an ear of corn, about 30,000. Reductionism may not be all that it has been cracked up to be by molecular biologists.
But none of these headlines capture the most basic, the most important consequence of mapping out all of our genes. The genome reveals, indisputably and beyond any serious doubt, that God was right -- mankind was created over a short period of time independent from primitive animals.
Our genes show that evolution cannot be true. The response to all those who thump their calculators and say there is no proof, no test and no evidence in support of creationism is, "The proof is right here, in our genes." Eric Lander of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., said that if you look at our genome it is clear that "God... must make new genes from old parts."
The core recipe of humanity carries clumps of genes that show we are created by the same God that created bacteria. There is no other way to explain the common nature of the genes that control key aspects of our development.
No one can look at how the book of life is written and not come away fully understanding that our genetic instructions have been created from the same programs that guide the behavior of animals. Our genetic instructions have been carefully assembled from the same sort of genetic instructions that make jellyfish, dinosaurs, wooly mammoths and our primate friends.
There is, as the scientists who cracked the genome all agreed, no other possible explanation.
Sure the business side of cracking our genetic code is fascinating. And we all need to be sure that our government does not leave us in the genetic lurch without laws to ensure our privacy and protect us against genetic discrimination. All that, however, is concern for the future. Right now the big news from mapping our genome is that mankind was created. The theory of creation is the only way to explain the arrangement of the 30,000 genes and three billion letters that constitute our genetic code.
The history of humanity is written in our DNA. Those who dismiss creation as myth, who insist that creation has no place in biology textbooks and our children's classrooms, are wrong.
The message our genes send is that God was right.
SunCrusher DarkStar, Ph.D., is director of the Center for B.S. at the University of Life, The Universe, And Everything
The point is that this article presented no evidence, and, as any debater will tell you, that leaves nothing to argue.
BTW: I loved that. "All your base pairs are belong to God"
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They way I understand this (and I'm certainly no expert) is that at the altitude where he's going to be supersonic the air is so thin that, although he's creating a "sonic boom" it won't be causing near as much force as it would with thicker air. Basically it's the same effect, but lower forces are involved because of the lower pressure. (Of course I've been wrong before....)
Here's a little something to chew on. See if you can guess how many seconds it took to make the "essay" argue for God.
... must make new genes from old parts."
Feb. 21 -- The media flubbed the headline for the biggest news event in the past 50 years of science. The reporters and TV talking heads who crammed the Washington, D.C., press conference on Feb. 12 did understand that the details they were hearing about the human genome offered the story of a lifetime. But, they missed the real headline. Their stories should have simply said, "God vindicated!"
MOST REPORTERS ballyhooed the fierce competition between scientists working for the publicly funded Human Genome Project and those employed by the privately funded Celera Genomics Corporation of Rockville, Md., to gain credit for the discovery. Others wondered about the financial implications of allowing human genes to be patented.
Still other headlines were meant to give us pause about whether it would be good or bad to know more about the role genes play in determining our health. Knowing more about our genes, after all, might not be so great in an era in which there is not much guarantee of medical privacy but a pretty good chance of discrimination by insurers and employers against those with "bad" genes.
There were even a couple of headlines that suggested that humanity should not be quite so arrogant since we do not have as many genes as we thought relative to other plants and animals. In fact, as it turns out, we have only twice as many genes as a fruit fly, or roughly the same number as an ear of corn, about 30,000. Reductionism may not be all that it has been cracked up to be by molecular biologists.
But none of these headlines capture the most basic, the most important consequence of mapping out all of our genes. The genome reveals, indisputably and beyond any serious doubt, that God was right -- mankind was created over a short period of time independent from primitive animals.
Our genes show that evolution cannot be true. The response to all those who thump their calculators and say there is no proof, no test and no evidence in support of creationism is, "The proof is right here, in our genes." Eric Lander of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., said that if you look at our genome it is clear that "God
The core recipe of humanity carries clumps of genes that show we are created by the same God that created bacteria. There is no other way to explain the common nature of the genes that control key aspects of our development.
No one can look at how the book of life is written and not come away fully understanding that our genetic instructions have been created from the same programs that guide the behavior of animals. Our genetic instructions have been carefully assembled from the same sort of genetic instructions that make jellyfish, dinosaurs, wooly mammoths and our primate friends.
There is, as the scientists who cracked the genome all agreed, no other possible explanation.
Sure the business side of cracking our genetic code is fascinating. And we all need to be sure that our government does not leave us in the genetic lurch without laws to ensure our privacy and protect us against genetic discrimination. All that, however, is concern for the future. Right now the big news from mapping our genome is that mankind was created. The theory of creation is the only way to explain the arrangement of the 30,000 genes and three billion letters that constitute our genetic code.
The history of humanity is written in our DNA. Those who dismiss creation as myth, who insist that creation has no place in biology textbooks and our children's classrooms, are wrong.
The message our genes send is that God was right.
SunCrusher DarkStar, Ph.D., is director of the Center for B.S. at the University of Life, The Universe, And Everything
The point is that this article presented no evidence, and, as any debater will tell you, that leaves nothing to argue.
BTW: I loved that. "All your base pairs are belong to God"