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originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: burgerbuddy
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Could anyone please quote any reputable scientist with the claim that "something came from nothing"?
Also, could anyone state what that has to do with evolution and so-called intelligent design?
Thank you kindly.
Hawking said all you need is gravity to make the universe, no god needed.
Without matter there is no gravity.
Without a universe you have no evolution. How's that?
Except, according to the Evolutionary experts, the whole Universe didn't hatch life, this dust mote speck of a planet did.
originally posted by: nightbringr
a reply to: neoholographic
This whole theory falls apart when faced with one simple fact: intelligent life had to start somewhere.
So, if we were created by aliens, who created them? And if another race created OUR creators, who created THEM?
Somewhere along the line, there had to be a beginning.
originally posted by: TerryDon79
a reply to: neoholographic
So there's no proof of evolution? Everything that is was created as it is now?
Could you please explain why chickens have DNA for teeth, even though they don't have teeth at this current time?
Or why humans have DNA for tails and have tail bones?
Can you explain why there are different layers of archeology which find no humans on the same layer as dinosaurs? Or why there are no human remains inside dinosaurs?
ETA: Using machines or code as an analogy is flawed in one simple way. Machinery doesn't reproduce.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
a reply to: neoholographic
'Religious'????
You don't really understand evolution, do you? Or the amount of time involved? Don't worry about it, neither does Sanford, as he's a YEC.
originally posted by: maria_stardust
a reply to: neoholographic
Actually, that's not supporting evidence for your premise.
Please accept the fact that intelligent design is nothing more than a belief system with no scientific basis.
originally posted by: olbe66
I want the knees redesigned.
Oh, and a faster self-replicating liver.
originally posted by: neoholographic
How does Transcription and Translation evolve?
Transcription is a product of intelligence. I can transcribe an article to another medium and check that medium for errors. Again, this is a product of intelligence not of random mutations and natural selection.
This makes no sense. I can write a program that transcribes information and then checks for errors based on a sequencial order of letters but to say this is a product of evolution is just ABSURD!
originally posted by: GemmyMcGemJew
He's a plant geneticist. Enough said.
And evolution doesn't deal with how we originated or where we are going.
This John Sandford is trying to make an impact in a field he has no place in.
originally posted by: TerryDon79
a reply to: Abysha
I completely agree.
Evolution is not about creation and vice versa.
Who knows, maybe someone/something did create the beginning of life. All evolution is about is what happened AFTER the beginning of life being formed.
The only people who get angry or try (badly) to refute evolution are YEC.
originally posted by: ParasuvO
originally posted by: GemmyMcGemJew
He's a plant geneticist. Enough said.
And evolution doesn't deal with how we originated or where we are going.
This John Sandford is trying to make an impact in a field he has no place in.
Evolution doesn't deal with almost anything of importance then, because it obviously lacks knowledge and PURPOSEFULLY ignores the reason it would ever BE studied, and why it should !!
originally posted by: burgerbuddy
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: burgerbuddy
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Could anyone please quote any reputable scientist with the claim that "something came from nothing"?
Also, could anyone state what that has to do with evolution and so-called intelligent design?
Thank you kindly.
Hawking said all you need is gravity to make the universe, no god needed.
Without matter there is no gravity.
Without a universe you have no evolution. How's that?
Except, according to the Evolutionary experts, the whole Universe didn't hatch life, this dust mote speck of a planet did.
Where does a planet live?
originally posted by: imjack
a reply to: Gryphon66
If you want some REAL interesting information consider ALL Quantum processes are observed to have interference patterns when not observed.
If we're made in God's image, we would be a copy of him correct?
Why are we not? He's looking right at us.
We'll become God when the bastard dies of old age!
originally posted by: cooperton
It is a mystery how matter came into being from consciousness, but it would be a mystery of mysteries if consciousness came into being from matter. Yet I marvel at how this thinking is dominant in our contemporary scientific community.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."
-Max Planck
Beware of the material reductionist trap.
Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that bind to DNA to control gene transcription. Stergachis et al. (p. 1367; see the Perspective by Weatheritt and Babu) examined TF binding within the human genome in more than 80 cell types. Nearly 15% of coding regions simultaneously specify both amino acid sequence and TF recognition sites. The distribution of the TF binding sites evolutionarily constrains how codons within these regions can change, independent of encoded protein function. Thus, TF binding may represent a widespread and strong evolutionary force in coding regions.
Intriguingly, TFs involved in positioning the transcriptional preinitiation complex, such as NFYA and SP1 (29), preferentially avoid the translated region of the first coding exon (Fig. 3A) and typically occupy elements immediately upstream of the methionine start codon (Fig. 3B and fig. S9A). Conversely, TFs involved in modulating promoter activity, such as YY1 and NRSF, preferentially occupy the translated region of the first coding exon (Fig. 3, A and C) (30, 31). These findings indicate that the translated portion of the first coding exon may serve functionally as an extension of the canonical promoter.
The wise person is happy to get any information that will grant him a clearer view into the underlying circumstances, conditions, and causes of problems. Thereby he “gets knowledge” as to what to do regarding the matter and knows what conclusions to draw, what is needed to solve the existing problem.—Compare Pr 9:9; Ec 7:25; 8:1; Eze 28:3; see INSIGHT.