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It would seem that the human/chimp genome project pushes the common ancestor back a few million years to give grace for the amount mutations that caused the differences in our genomes.
Originally posted by riley
That talks alot about brain size differences. There is a huge difference between the modern human brain and that of 'the hobbit' for example.. it is apparently very similar to the chimp yet they were highly intelligent. I see nothing there that really challenges the evolution theory.
It would seem that the human/chimp genome project pushes the common ancestor back a few million years to give grace for the amount mutations that caused the differences in our genomes.
So?
[edit on 28-1-2006 by riley]
Originally posted by bigpappadiaz
Evolution is a nice simple thought. Just like there is one God and he loves us and all the nice thoughts of early Christianity. It's a gross oversimplification of zillions of complicated processes that could not have all happened by chance The idea that life spontaneously creates itself is stupid because our history and it's related conspiracies all point in a different direction. But I guess you know more about what was going on back in the day than these guys, huh? Because you read it in a history book written thousands of years later.
Believe what you want to believe and when this apocalypse kicks off and you realize that we're doomed because we were stupid and never wised up you'll feel stupid for helping keep everyone dumb. We were created, became a liability, and now are being destroyed. We maybe could have avoided this, but no, those who try to warn others have to spend their time running around in circles while those who destroy continue their work unchallenged.
When people begin breaking out with horrible diseases while they're starving, they can thank their ignorance for attracting them to all the pollutants and chemicals they thought their bodies could handle. We can thank those such as yourself for always defending these stupid things.
False progress sucks
The idea that life spontaneously creates itself is stupid because our history and it's related conspiracies all point in a different direction. But I guess you know more about what was going on back in the day than these guys, huh?
bsl4doc sed:
Secondly, your quote "the idea that life spontaneously creates itself is stupid" is reason enough for everyone here to just ignore you.
All religions have been a way of controlling the people, and making sure they never wonder too much about technology and the secrets of the damn universe and how to become like the Gods. These are masterful manipulators and servants to these Gods who had to leave this planet, I see this Apocalypse fixing to go down live, and that's one reason why I believe in creationism.
Scientific Fact No. 6 - Chaos From Organization Proves Evolution is Wrong
The second law of thermodynamics proves that organization cannot flow from chaos. Complex live organisms cannot rearrange themselves into an organism of a higher form as claimed by evolutionists. This is scientifically backwards according to the second law of thermodynamics that has never been proven wrong. Scientists cannot have it both ways. The second law of thermodynamics is proven to be correct. Evolution lacks any scientific proof. Evolution is simply an empty theory.
Originally posted by Hehe
Did you read the all that was said. Admittedly it was technical.
"Actually, when you take into consideration the indels the simularity is more like 95%. When you are looking at the protein coding genes they are only 29% identical."
Well moving back the common ancestor would mess around with current accepted views of the history of human evolution, causing scientists again to overhaul the huamn evolution timeline.
Originally posted by Hehe
Homo Flores. is a bit of a controversial topic for both sides of the fence and further investigation is pending. Although i dont quite see the relevancy here. According to various phylogenetic trees Homo and Pan split off about 7 mya ( www.origins.tv... ).
7 mya is a very small period of time for the brain size to have tripled (H. Flores is speculated to be an offshoot of H Erectus).
The problem with that is according to the genetic variance between humans and chimps (although comparitively small) you would need mutation rates (benficial ones) to be ridiculously fast to account for the differences.
Bear in mind harmful mutations far outnumber beneficial ones (beneficial mutations seem to be very elusive, i cant think of any documented ones).
So-called junk DNA has also baffled scientists as it was recenlty discovered to actually have a function although all the functions are not known (not remnants of shut-off genes from ancestors as predicted). Variation in "junk-DNA" between humans and chimps is also a perplexing problem.
Its not meant to disprove evolution,
just to give a new perspective to all those pundits giving this 98% human/chimp similarity as the absolute proof that humans must have evolved. All this project has done is raise more questions to be answered.
Caucasions were once dark skinned.. someone had a white mutation [fairer skin makes it easier to absorb certain vitamins from the sun in colder climates] and it obviouly was not considered a bad mutation and so was passed on.
[edit on 30-1-2006 by riley]
Originally posted by Ibeuniquetoo
It is not that they absorb vitamins because of a lighter skin color, but that more UV radiation can pass thru the protective upper layers of the skin (where the pigaments are) down to the lower layers of the skin where there is a process that uses UV radiation to construct the vitamin D.
As a note, I was at a local hospital and read a pamphlet that said when breast feeding became more popular recently, that there was an increase outbreak of ricketts(sp). This was due to the fact that our milk supply is fortified with vitamin D to prevent ricketts from occuring.
As we can all see we have just turned a mutation in to a less beneficial or harmful mutation. (Harmful because you increase the risk of skin cancer since there is less pigment to protect against UV radiation. UV radiation causes damage to our DNA. We have a repair mechanism within our cells to counteract this damage. If too much damage occurs then we increase our chances of skin cancer.