The fact that all life on earth uses the same genetic code? The fact that mitochondria and chloroplasts have DNA like bacteria, reproduce like bacteria and have ribosomes like bacteria, and have double membranes like they were swallowed by another cell? (To name just a few.)
That's like asserting the Bible is fake because someone came up with a bad interpretation of Revelation . . .
The problem with the soft tissue issue (teehee) is that it comes from only one lab. The science actually comes from a Christian lab manager, who doesn't doubt evolution btw. I'm skeptical of anything in science that hasn't been repeated by other labs. And so far the "soft tissue" hasn't really. But it could be true. Doesn't disprove evolution either way though.
I reject vain babblings that are falsely called science.
1 Timothy 6:2-21 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. |
You think interpretations are evidence, but they are not.
The fake news spread by so-called Climate Scientists has no other goal than the transfer of wealth from the majority to enrich the 1%.
| Holocene climatic optimum The Holocene Climate Optimum (HCO) was a warm period during roughly the interval 9,000 to 5,000 years BP, with a thermal maximum around 8000 years BP. It has also been known by many other names, such as Altithermal, Climatic Optimum, Holocene Megathermal, Holocene Optimum, Holocene Thermal Maximum, Hypsithermal, and Mid-Holocene Warm Period. This warm period was followed by a gradual decline until about two millennia ago. Out of 140 sites across the western Arctic, there is clear evidence for conditions warmer than now at 120 sites. At 16 sites, where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures were on average 1.6±0.8 °C higher than now. Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, and the Laurentide Ice Sheet still chilled the continent. Northeastern North America experienced peak warming 4,000 years later. Along the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, there are indications of summer temperatures 2–3 °C warmer than present. Research indicates that the Arctic had less sea ice than the present. |
You know you can assert this forever and still be wrong.
Several reasons likely.
Assumed wasn't intended as an insult. I am literally saying you are making assumptions about the text. Christians have interpreted Genesis in different ways down through the centuries.
I mean through common descent.
Birds are still reptiles scientifically speaking. They never stop being one thing to become something else.
Humans selected for the mutations they found to be beneficial.
Nothing happens independently of God really so no.
As an evolutionary creationist I don't see the changes as purposeless. And evolution, regardless of the teleology or lack thereof is never truly random. Natural selection is predictable and purposeful in the sense of preserving populations of organisms against changes in the environment.
Problem: One of your books contradicts the other. You seem to think the writing of man is imperialized while the writing of God takes a second-seat and must be corrected/confronted by nothing more and nothing less than the 'thoughts' of men. Science is naught but the thoughts of men.
I'm not sure what this is. Remember the Gap theory discussion? It'd mean God stopped and started over, not derivative. Next? We've seen, for monetary gain, some scientists without scruples or were inadequate scientists, gave us bones of one dinosaur connected to another dinosaur to create a whole other species. I've seen 'crocodileman' and 'mermaid' at the curiosity shop. Whatever this is, it needs more to be considered a transitional species.I mean through common descent.
Birds are still reptiles scientifically speaking. They never stop being one thing to become something else.
See microraptor below. Feathered as a bird but with bones of a dinosaur. Today's birds are just more modified from the original.
:think: It is awkward to call such a 'mutation.' It isn't as far as I understand science. It is rather a characteristic that is desired thus humans encouraged the duplication. It was already there. They didn't 'create' the gene.
We'd both agree. That by itself, is enough for me not to have to get into a big argument with someone over evolution. Rather, the science observations that step all over God and His creation work, is the more troubling discussion.
To me, if you disagree with the scope of a word, you 'may' not be one. In this case, your divine-driven creation might make you a "Creationist where creation expresses by auto-efficient means provided and sustained" would be more appropriate and clearer than a force on a redefinition of 'evolution' which does carry 'on its own' and 'undirected' as its meaning (autonomous).
Yes. I'm simply saying it might be one of several reasons why it wasn't responded to. My brother carries a biology degree and has seen the bird/lizard fossil. He said it doesn't prove nor evidence what it is reported to have. His explanation is a bit above my pay-grade. Not everyone will respond to every evidence given in thread :e4e:
This is reasonable. But Exodus 20:11 walks right into the middle of the conversation and says, "What about me?" Because with Exodus 20:11 in the mix, as it were, authoritatively interpreting the otherwise ambiguous Genesis, then the apparent conflict you mention, where you call the evidence of the earth's age "very clear," how clear is it really, compared with the clarity of Exodus 20:11?
Are you saying we shouldn't try to examine the creation God has given us? That we can't learn anything from it? Or that the creation itself was created to deceive us?
Is "lactase persistence" the genetic mutation or is "lactose intolerance" the genetic mutation?
| Can changing the microbiome reverse lactose intolerance Normally, the activity of the gene that produces lactase, LCT, declines after infancy. New evidence suggests that this decline occurs not because the genetic code is changed, but because the DNA is chemically modified so that the lactase gene is switched off. Such modifications that affect gene activity while leaving the DNA sequence intact are called epigenetic. The epigenetic modification that turns off the lactase gene does not happen in lactose-tolerant individuals. This new finding gives an important insight into how lactose intolerance develops with age or after trauma to the intestinal tract. I’m a microbiologist, and I became interested in the causes of lactose intolerance because it afflicts a close friend. He is of Norwegian descent and, like most Norwegians, is genetically lactose tolerant. But, he became permanently lactose intolerant at the age of 45 after a long regimen of antibiotics. The ability of adults to digest lactose appeared in humans relatively recently. Specific genetic changes – known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs – conveying lactase-persistence arose independently in various populations around the same time as their domestication of dairy animals. None of these SNPs are in the lactase gene itself, but instead are in a nearby region of the DNA that control its activity. Scientists have been trying to figure out how these changes exert their influence over this gene’s behavior. Recently researchers have shown that one of the SNPs changes the level of epigenetic modification of the DNA in the lactase gene control regions. Specifically, the SNP prevents small chemical units, called methyl groups (which consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms) from being attached to the DNA. Methyl groups are especially important in regulating gene activity because when they are added to the DNA, they turn off the gene. These studies imply that after early childhood, the lactase gene is usually shut off by DNA methylation. The SNPs that alter the DNA sequence in the control region, however, prevent this methylation from happening. This, in turn, results in the production of lactase because the gene is kept on. |