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You see this is what you do when i present empirical dilemmas to evolution.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: cooperton
The truly fascinating part here will be watching you propose an alternative solution to the rise of sexual reproduction and offering empirical observable evidence to support your claims and demonstrate conclusively the supernatural element in this equation.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
academic.oup.com...
Yet not one meiotic bacteria has ever been observed. It is therefore based in their imagination, and not any empirical observable fact. You guys believe this stuff blindly. Your faith always astounds me. "The white coats said it, so it must be true."
So there's your answer. Again, I would like to hear you propose a mechanism, but you have forfeited your ability to think for your self and given it to the white coat priests.
originally posted by: Phantom423
a reply to: cooperton
Yet not one meiotic bacteria has ever been observed. It is therefore based in their imagination, and not any empirical observable fact. You guys believe this stuff blindly. Your faith always astounds me. "The white coats said it, so it must be true."
So you're absolutely sure of that. Want me to post the source now or later? Your choice. I'm preparing a compendium of your opinions vs the real sources which have context and evidence . It will certainly be extensive. It will be quite a show.
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: cooperton
The truly fascinating part here will be watching you propose an alternative solution to the rise of sexual reproduction and offering empirical observable evidence to support your claims and demonstrate conclusively the supernatural element in this equation.
Haha so your defense of your theory is scrutinizing other ideas? Stay on topic. Argue my points regarding gastropod sex organs.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
academic.oup.com...
from your source:
"The origin of meiosis, and in particular meiotic recombination, is an unresolved mystery in biology"
So there's your answer. Again, I would like to hear you propose a mechanism, but you have forfeited your ability to think for your self and given it to the white coat priests.
"We therefore hypothesize that meiotic recombination arose from bacterial transformation"
Yet not one meiotic bacteria has ever been observed. It is therefore based in their imagination, and not any empirical observable fact. You guys believe this stuff blindly. Your faith always astounds me. "The white coats said it, so it must be true."
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: Nothin
Thanks for the reply Coope.
Was considering it a bit differently.
Am not sure how gastropods 'supposedly' evolved.
But thought that it might be pertinent, because of the possibility that a species could evolve, (if species do evolve), from a self-replicating, self-reproducing organisms, to slowly developing different sexual organs, while still self-reproducing, until they reach the stage where the ones that reproduce via the opposing organs, become stronger, and/or more diverse, and eventually the hermaphrodites die-out.
(Man that was a long sentence! Sorry.)
Gastropods exist, so why not?
(Don't 'know' these things. They are merely: opinion/belief/temporary ideas/observations/thoughts/concepts).
Yeah we were trained from a young age in elementary biology classes to perceive everything from an evolutionary lens. "It exists, therefore evolution must have done it". This fallacy assumes evolution is true, and tries to fit everything under that scope, when it actuality the observable evidence in a lab does not give us any reason to believe that such leaps would be possible.
To scope-in on the gastropod, it would have needed both male and female organs still to reproduce in the manner that it does. Think how hard it would be even to create a male snail sex organ by random chance... and this is a snail we're talking about, a relatively simple organism:
take for example on the cellular level. You would need a male sex cell and a female sex cell (each contain half the genetic material of regular non-sex cells), which are formed by the process of meiosis. So here's the first hurdle from asexual to sexual reproduction.. where does meiosis come from? Even if an organism does manage to somehow manifest the many proteins required for meiosis, what is even directing these sex cells in the right place?? For example, If meiosis happened in the eyes that would be horrible for the organism. So the gastropod would have needed a new appendage (male sex organ) along with the necessary microcellular mechanisms to create sex cells.
That is just the very basics, and even that is such a long shot, it would be unimaginable to reproduce in a lab, because we have had nothing even close to demonstrating that such a leap would be possible. But let's say for argument sake that a miracle happens and we have a fully functioning male sex organ... We would still need the counterpart female sex organ - immediately, because a male organ is useless without the female organ. The female organ would need cellular meiotic eggs that would have some sort of way of rejecting foreign debris while still being able to recognize the male gamete (sex cell).
None of this has ever been observed in a lab: the leap from mitosis to meiosis (in a formerly non-meiotic organism), or the leap from no sexual organ to a sexual organ, and especially not the simultaneous development of both!! Evolution is therefore far out of the realm of possibility
originally posted by: Phantom423
I'm preparing a compendium of your opinions vs the real sources which have context and evidence . It will certainly be extensive. It will be quite a show.
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: Phantom423
I'm preparing a compendium of your opinions vs the real sources which have context and evidence . It will certainly be extensive. It will be quite a show.
Sounds obsessive. maybe get some exercise instead?
originally posted by: Akragon
originally posted by: Phantom423
a reply to: cooperton
Yet not one meiotic bacteria has ever been observed. It is therefore based in their imagination, and not any empirical observable fact. You guys believe this stuff blindly. Your faith always astounds me. "The white coats said it, so it must be true."
So you're absolutely sure of that. Want me to post the source now or later? Your choice. I'm preparing a compendium of your opinions vs the real sources which have context and evidence . It will certainly be extensive. It will be quite a show.
In its own thread I do hope...
Ye don't want it to get lost in the fray
originally posted by: TzarChasm
still no answer on the question of "if not evolution, then how? please show your work and provide examples" which is a very curious silence from the anti evolution crowd.