As a scinetist, I tend to want a little more than someone waving their hands and saying "God did it" or "Aliens did it".
What I would want is to take a particular stretch of genetic code that coded for a protein in any given ancient organism (say a T-Rex), find a different but similar stretch of genetic code in a modern organism that is thought to have decended from the ancient organism (in this case we could go with a chicken). Put both of these into a supercomputer and have it calculate possible paths from the former to the latter by single base pair mutations. Of the possible paths, find ones that coded for working protiens at each step.
Once you find that, you just showed how evolution could work. Find an organism with one of the intermidiate steps, and you just proved the evolution of that animal.
It's not that this is difficult to prove, it's just that it is hard to find the appropriate genetic sequences and it is hardware intensive.
Actually, our ancestors dealt with bad water by making alcoholic beverages. For most of human history since men became civilized, we have drunk alcohol for hydration as well as to avoid dysentery and other water bourne diseases.
They looked pretty abrubt to me. In fact, it looks like we are at the end of a downspike right now. Makes me feel a little better about our impact on the planet.
Also, is it just me, or does anyone else feel like their brains are suddenly heating u
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As a scinetist, I tend to want a little more than someone waving their hands and saying "God did it" or "Aliens did it".
What I would want is to take a particular stretch of genetic code that coded for a protein in any given ancient organism (say a T-Rex), find a different but similar stretch of genetic code in a modern organism that is thought to have decended from the ancient organism (in this case we could go with a chicken). Put both of these into a supercomputer and have it calculate possible paths from the former to the latter by single base pair mutations. Of the possible paths, find ones that coded for working protiens at each step.
Once you find that, you just showed how evolution could work. Find an organism with one of the intermidiate steps, and you just proved the evolution of that animal.
It's not that this is difficult to prove, it's just that it is hard to find the appropriate genetic sequences and it is hardware intensive.
Actually, our ancestors dealt with bad water by making alcoholic beverages. For most of human history since men became civilized, we have drunk alcohol for hydration as well as to avoid dysentery and other water bourne diseases.
...it seems like everything's gone wrong since Canada came along!
Thunderous silence as /. does not undertand oxymorons.
They looked pretty abrubt to me. In fact, it looks like we are at the end of a downspike right now. Makes me feel a little better about our impact on the planet.
Also, is it just me, or does anyone else feel like their brains are suddenly heating u
Wouldn't you like to know?
Now I'm going to need a fake ID to rent ultraporn. Sigh.
Unfortunately, the material is so heavy that each pound weighs over ten thousand pounds.