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Originally posted by Facefirst
That is an opinion. If that is what you believe, fine. More power to you.
That being said, I know that theories are just theories until proven.
Originally posted by Facefirst
As I have stated previously:
We are of the animal kingdon.
We are part of the Earth.
Originally posted by amantine
On a side note, I don't think creationism is in conflict with either evolution or abiogenesis. God made amino acids come together in such a way that a first live form was made, thus creating the animals and the plants, etc. He could also have guided the evolution of a mammals into humans through selective mutations. This can never be proven, because there is no way to determine the difference between random mutations and guided mutations. Personally, I don't god has to be or should be included in any scientific theory, but if it helps you cope with the theory that has the most evidence supporting it, maybe you should include god in the theory for yourself.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
BEHAVE!
If you can't debate without insults, this thread will be removed.
Originally posted by amantine
Right, retroviri are very species-dependant, which is logical, because they need a certain protein on the cellular membrane to enter a cell. Yes, there are viri that can attack multiple species, but only species that are very closely related. In fact, my guess is that if we would determine how close two species are related through checking how many viri can attack both species and we do this of every animal, we would first support for evolution. We only get primate or sometimes large mammal viri, not plants or fungi viri.
Someone here also metioned that abiogenesis can also be replaced with life from space. This theory is known as panspermia, but it doesn't solve the problem. Life has to have formed somewhere else, through abiogenesis. Why can't life here have formed through abiogenesis?
I've always wondered if creationists have a problem with microevolution. The direction microevolution takes a species depends on the environment. If you have two isolated populations in different environments and both microevolve into different directions, there's going to be a time where members of two species can no longer mate together. Two new species are born. Microevolution is a fact, it is has been shown in different experiments, including this one and an updated version. A scientist grew different clones of a E. Coli bacteria in a special environment (only a low amount of glucose). The different clones are now very different from their ancestors. They are 50% larger and are much better adapted to their environment. Imagine something like this happening in two different environments. Eventually the two colonies will no longer be able to mate.
On a side note, I don't think creationism is in conflict with either evolution or abiogenesis. God made amino acids come together in such a way that a first live form was made, thus creating the animals and the plants, etc. He could also have guided the evolution of a mammals into humans through selective mutations. This can never be proven, because there is no way to determine the difference between random mutations and guided mutations. Personally, I don't god has to be or should be included in any scientific theory, but if it helps you cope with the theory that has the most evidence supporting it, maybe you should include god in the theory for yourself.
Originally posted by Kano
Religion is based on belief. Creation is a belief, it is not meant to be tested or analysed by Science. The very reason for religion is belief. Creation can never be backed up by science, if you wish to bring Science into an Evolution/Creation debate, there will always only be one solution. But that is not what Religion is about. I suggest the people who need to try and justify their Beliefs have a deeper problem with their faith. Something that subjective pseudoscience can not solve.
Originally posted by ShiftTrio
But!! Why cant evolution be part of this plan.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
BTW I will not argue with the fact of microevolution and do not have a problem with it. Microevolution has been proven as fact and you can see it happening on the other hand you cannot see Macroevolution happening. However, there has not ever been a case of microevolution in which the organism benefited from the change it has always been either neutral or harmful.
Originally posted by Camelop�rdalis
Originally posted by ShiftTrio
But!! Why cant evolution be part of this plan.
Simply because modern evolution theory is an "alternative" to God. Evolution existing without any interferance whatsoever. No love, no nothing. Just brutal force, luck and a bunch of stuff which is impossible to proove. Don't get me wrong, God has enabled most ifnot all his creatures to adapt to new environments etc. But "there is nothing new under the Sun". That last Bible quote is one of the oldest examples of a precursor to the Laws of thermodynamics. Wonder if science has something more in common with Zionce..........
Originally posted by amantine
Cytochrome DNA is not morphologically related, because the order of the amino acids in a certain part of the protein does not change it function. This is allows us to look at genes that are not dependant on the physiology of the organism. There are many other genes like this for all the organisms, like ubichinon and DNA-synthase, and the number of the genes is even larger if you only want to look at relations within a certain group, like the mammals. You can look at the differences in the genes that code for hemoglobin or enzymes required for the myelinzation of the longer nerve-cells. We can also take a look at redundant genes or junk DNA. This is not related to the morphological features of the species.
We can also look at mytochondrial DNA. Mytochondria have seperate DNA, not related with the DNA of the organism. Although the form of the organism may favour certain versions of the enzymes used in the mytochondria, we can use the junk DNA of the mytochondria to check for similarities between species.
Enough genes have alreasy been uncovered in the genetic midden to show that what was once thought to be waste is definitely being transmitted into scientific code.
DNA always undergoes some kind of change over long periods. In different environments with different selection factors, different mutation are positive and different are negative. Some species will develop in a different direction than others, depending on their environment (biogical and abiogical selection factors).
Different genes might tell different stories, not very different stories, but somewhat different stories. That's why we look at universal genes like the cytochrome DNA and retrovirus DNA, which is easily identifiable.
Interesting, but not bizarre. It would be bizarre if we found that a cow is more related to a fungus of zygomyceta kind than to a horse. I do enough about these comparisons and the genes involved in the research, but I can guess that maybe they were caused by looking at genes related to morphology or that maybe the DNA comparison is sometimes better than the normal morphological ways of constructing trees.
The evolutionists are right and your argument does nothing to disprove it. You say heat, not energy, increases the entropy of a system. That is true. However, external energy can be used to lower the entropy of a system. See that I say energy and not heat? If energy couldn't be used to lower entropy, we would also not be able to build buildings, where we use energy to lower the entropy of a certain area and a certain groups of stones and glass.
Mutations can become a positive influence in combination with environmental conditions. You see, a random mutation can cause an enzyme to function completely different. This can be both good or bad, depending on the environmental conditions. Bad mutations are more common than good ones, but if a mutation occurs, the organism dies. Good mutations give the organism an advantage. Good mutations survive, bad ones die out. If new mutations give a certain enzyme a new function or changes it's old function, it can create new order.
Originally posted by Camelop�rdalis
I just have to break in here. No. There are billions of things that shows that we, humans, are as far from animals we can get. We are more gods actually. I have heared about people, humans, who are able to calculate pi in their heads to as many decimals as is possible to say in a lifetime. How many animals do you find who can even add two and two and understand what just happened? This example and billions more. Like our excellent motoric skills, combined with our excellent intelligence, our excellent sense of music and beauty in arts, our ability to be good and rightious, judge between right and wrong etc. We are god beings. We are created in his likeness and image. We master and throne above all corners of nature.
Originally posted by amantine
You didn't read those links in post to the work of Jenski, did you? Is it neutral or harmful for the E. Coli bacteria of his experiment that they can now use glucose, the only food source in their environment much more effeciently? No, it's good for them. Microevolution in different environments leads to macroevolution.
I think some evolutionists have stopped debating people who don't even bother to read the arguments the evolutionists provide. Some however, still want to continue debating, like the people at TalkOrigins.org and me.
Originally posted by BlackJackal
The abundance of so-called junk DNA in the genetic code has been offered by evolutionist, as it was by amantine, as a special type of evidence for evolution, especially those genes which they think have experienced mutations, sometimes called pseudogenes. However, evidence is accumulating rapidly today that these supposedly useless genes do actually perform useful functions.
As pointed out by Rachel Nowak in the Journal Science Febuary 4, 1994 edition page 608 in her article Mining Treasures from �Junk DNA� there isn�t much junk to DNA.
Enough genes have alreasy been uncovered in the genetic midden to show that what was once thought to be waste is definitely being transmitted into scientific code.
It is thus wrong to decide that junk DNA, even the pseudogenes, have no function. That is merely an admission of ignorance and an object for fruitful research. Like the vestigial organs in man, once considered as evidence of evolution but now all known to have specific uses, so the junk DNA and pseudogenes most probably are specifically useful to the organism, whether or not those uses have yet been discovered by scientists.
At the very best this type of evidence is strictly circumstantial and can be explained just as well in terms of primeval creation supplemented in some cases by later deterioration, just as expected in the creation model.
A good question to ask is Why are all observable evolutionary changes either horizontal and trivial or downward toward deterioration and extinction? The answer seems to be found in the laws of thermodynamics.
As I have said before there is absolutely no proof of positive mutations in correlation with an environment or not. Beneficial mutations are simply hypothesis of scientists that are certain that evolution is the way of the world. Positive mutations are a belief and have no place in observable science
Interesting, but not bizarre. It would be bizarre if we found that a cow is more related to a fungus of zygomyceta kind than to a horse. I do enough about these comparisons and the genes involved in the research, but I can guess that maybe they were caused by looking at genes related to morphology or that maybe the DNA comparison is sometimes better than the normal morphological ways of constructing trees.
Yes very interesting indeed. I guess my question is how far fetched would the DNA correlations need to be before you would believe that there is something to it?
Until some prebiotically plausible mechanism for capturing and channeling the available prebiotic energy into performing useful "biological" work is found the argument still stands because no chemical or amino acid has ever been proved to channel energy on its own.
Once again there have never been a case of an observable mutation that has had a positive outcome.
Originally posted by Camelop�rdalis
Originally posted by Facefirst
That is an opinion. If that is what you believe, fine. More power to you.
Who talked about power here? I don't need power, I need God, it's the only thing I need. And the same with everyone else. Without that we don't exist. We'll evaporate in a puff of logics.
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Originally posted by Camelop�rdalis
Originally posted by ShiftTrio
But!! Why cant evolution be part of this plan.
Simply because modern evolution theory is an "alternative" to God. Evolution existing without any interferance whatsoever. No love, no nothing. Just brutal force, luck and a bunch of stuff which is impossible to proove. Don't get me wrong, God has enabled most ifnot all his creatures to adapt to new environments etc. But "there is nothing new under the Sun". That last Bible quote is one of the oldest examples of a precursor to the Laws of thermodynamics. Wonder if science has something more in common with Zionce..........
Originally posted by Facefirst
Yeah..... ummm right. Belief in Evolution does not equal no belief in God. That is an assumption on your part. (maybe god put those first cells together to form into the first being which evolved into....and so on and so on)
The only thing that separates man from animal is self awareness. Nothing more.