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Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by andersensrm
Words are important they are used to construct are abstract of reality around as. At best they are still an approximation giving us a model of the world. Not the world itself.
Recently Einstein theory of evolution was proven incorrect. Some particles travel faster than the speed of light. A whole pillar of science has crumbled
There are scientists that disagree with the theories of evolution, even some at the likes of oxford or the mit institute. It is not correct to come out and say the science is a fact. It is simply wrong. But hey think what you like i dont mind. I can present the information and you can do with it as you will.
For the record I am neither a creationist or an evolutionist. Neither explain the transition life around me on our biosphere.
#6 lead to a dead link. Important part of the equation that needs verification.
The probability p of an offspring escaping error-free is given by e^-U6. Therefore, making the substitution,
Originally posted by andersensrm
reply to post by chr0naut
What???? Implies intelligent design?? where do you get that from if you don't mind me asking. I don't believe in intelligent design, if that tells you anything. i do however believe that we have more influence on things than we know of, and the will, or concsiousness, or spirit that lies within all living things may be the drive or the influence that makes seemingly random events, not so random.
There's no question we evolved from the earlier hominids, it's obvious in fossils, genetics and everything else.
The high deleterious mutation rate in humans presents a paradox. If mutations interact multiplicatively, the genetic load associated with such a high U [detrimental mutation rate] would be intolerable in species with a low rate of reproduction [like humans and apes etc.] . . . The reduction in fitness (i.e., the genetic load) due to deleterious mutations with multiplicative effects is given by 1 - e -U (Kimura and Moruyama 1966). For U = 3, the average fitness is reduced to 0.05, or put differently, each female would need to produce 40 offspring for 2 to survive and maintain the population at constant size. This assumes that all mortality is due to selection and so the actual number of offspring required to maintain a constant population size is probably higher. The problem can be mitigated somewhat by soft selection or by selection early in development (e.g., in utero). However, many mutations are unconditionally deleterious and it is improbable that the reproductive potential on average for human females can approach 40 zygotes.
Originally posted by chr0naut
Originally posted by andersensrm
reply to post by chr0naut
What???? Implies intelligent design?? where do you get that from if you don't mind me asking. I don't believe in intelligent design, if that tells you anything. i do however believe that we have more influence on things than we know of, and the will, or concsiousness, or spirit that lies within all living things may be the drive or the influence that makes seemingly random events, not so random.
Lets assume for one moment that this "spirit", "will" or "consciousness" that influences biological evolution arises from you.
Are you intelligent?
Possibly.
edit on 24/1/2012 by chr0naut because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by chr0naut
The single sentence "God created the heavens and the Earth" does not necessarily imply the chronological order of the creation. It could also imply simultaneous creation of heaven & Earth.
Originally posted by Confusion42
Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by BBalazs
What evolutionary advantage is there in us seeing "immense beauty" in the structure and process of the universe?
We don't need to see beauty, form, color or anything like that to survive.
It would appear that the human race is directed towards an outcome that goes beyond both genetics and selection pressures.
If you balance the results of random chance and compare that to the observed universe, and apply a little mathematical and statistical nous, you have to admit that it is highly, ridiculously impossible that things would be so anthropocentric.
In that mindset, I see the universe directed to achieve specific results.
edit on 24/1/2012 by chr0naut because: (no reason given)
Let's for a minute focus on creationism.
Too much focus is spend by creationists being on the offense of the debate lately; For a bit, this evolutionist here wants to go on the offense regarding your creationist "theory."
Your Bible, it says something like "God created the Heavens and the Earth."
Sooo, than, who created all the other planets in the Universe.
If your going to include all the other planets in your definition of "the Heavens", that I would ask, so does that mean
God's first planet he created was Earth? If not, than why does your Bible mention only one planet?
Also
When was the Universe made, and how?
When where Galaxies formed, and how?
When where stars, "dark matter", "dark energy", etc. made?
What causes Supernova's and etc.?
When where the first solar system's made? How long after the Universe was made?
When was our solar system made? How long after the first solar system's appeared was ours made?
How was the moon made, and when?
edit on 24-1-2012 by Confusion42 because: (no reason given)
Big Bang cosmology, however dictates that the Big Bang occurred first, the universe inflated rapidly, stars and galaxies came into being as gravity caused the clumping of matter into accretion disks around significantly large amounts of matter. From the accretion disk around our proto-Sun, the planets (including the Earth) formed. This is not inconsistent with the Heavens being formed and then the Earth.
The oldest book in the bible (the book of Job) written in what we would call the bronze age (or earlier), mentions that the constellation of Orion is different than the other constellations because its stars are bound together gravitationally, which is the case. One has to acknowledge that there is no way back then that they could even have understood the significance of what God was telling Job about the universe.
Perhaps in light of the fact that both science and the Bible are in accord on the matter you posted about, you should adjust your opinions to fit the facts.
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Originally posted by riseofman13
The theory of evolution is just the scientists version of religion. We all need something to believe in. Why don't we see species evolving today. Magically poofing from one form to another. My best guess is that the species with the mutation that helped them to survive conditions there fellow beings coudln't got duplicated in the shallow gene pools of the world. The fact that most living beings share the same genes and some of these genes could have mutated is why some fish have legs and some people have scales. I can just picture a species low on the food chain saying to itself,"No thanks I'm done evloving. Im quite comfortable where I'm at." Who woudlnt want to change there station in life?
the mutation rates confirm that evolution cannot occur. even if you accept their explanation (for which there is no evidence) you STILL have to assume that every human female HAS AT LEAST 40 KIDS!
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You implied genetic change. That implies the genes were not there at the beginning of the experiment and that these new genes were evolved during the experiment. All this experiment did was to separate yeasts genetically predisposed to clumping from yeast not genetically predisposed to clumping. Both traits existed in the source population prior to the experiment.
We subjected the unicellular yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an environment in which we expected multicellularity to be adaptive. We observed the rapid evolution of clustering genotypes that display a novel multicellular life history characterized by reproduction via multicellular propagules, a juvenile phase, and determinate growth. The multicellular clusters are uniclonal, minimizing within-cluster genetic conflicts of interest. Simple among-cell division of labor rapidly evolved.
Ten replicate populations of initially isogenic S. cerevisiae were grown in nutrient-rich liquid medium with shaking to stationary phase... before subculturing and daily transfer to fresh medium.
Individual cells, obtained by enzymatic digestion of snowflake clusters, were tracked via microscopy for 16 h of growth. During this time each cell was seen to give rise to a new snowflake-type cluster, whereas aggregation was never seen, demonstrating that clusters arise via postdivision adhesion and not by aggregation of previously separate cells.
Surely you can see that you are playing a rather silly semantic game and the process of mutation/genetic drift is entirely absent from the example. Therefore one of the pillars of biological evolution process is absent in ths experiment.
I just debunked that claim. Why are you still holding to it?
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by Astyanax
I just debunked that claim. Why are you still holding to it?
firstly, that article you posted doesn't debunk the mutation rates i posted, it simply says that natural selection is responsible for removing deleterious mutations from the genepool. secondly, since they offer no evidence that contradicts a U=3+ mutation rate, they must be assuming each human female is giving birth to 40 kids.
so no, not debunked at all.
Widely recognized geneticist James Crow in an article in the same Nature issue agrees that the deleterious rate is more likely twice the rate cited by Eyre-Walker and Keightley8. So if we use Crow's revised rate of U=3
Now consider that extremely favorable assumptions for evolution were used in the Eyre-Walker & Keightley article. If more realistic assumptions are used the problem gets much worse. First, they estimate that insertions/deletions and some functional non-genic sequences would each independently add 10% to the rate. Second, and more importantly, they assume a functional genome size of only 2.25% (60K genes). When they assume a more widely accepted 3% functional genome (80K genes), they cite U = 3.1, which they admit is "remarkably high" (even this may be a favorable assumption, considering Maynard Smith estimates the genic area to be between 9 - 27%7).
Nachmann and Crowell detail the perplexing situation at hand in the following conclusion from their fairly recent paper on human mutation rates: The high deleterious mutation rate in humans presents a paradox. If mutations interact multiplicatively, the genetic load associated with such a high U [detrimental mutation rate] would be intolerable in species with a low rate of reproduction [like humans and apes etc.] . . . The reduction in fitness (i.e., the genetic load) due to deleterious mutations with multiplicative effects is given by 1 - e -U (Kimura and Moruyama 1966). For U = 3, the average fitness is reduced to 0.05, or put differently, each female would need to produce 40 offspring for 2 to survive and maintain the population at constant size.
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by Confusion42
obviously you didn't go to either of my sources.
Widely recognized geneticist James Crow in an article in the same Nature issue agrees that the deleterious rate is more likely twice the rate cited by Eyre-Walker and Keightley8. So if we use Crow's revised rate of U=3
evolutionfairytale.com...
eyre-walker and keightley were a bit dishonest at best, but in the end, even THEY admit the mutation rate is 3 per new individual plus the sum of it's parents mutations.
Now consider that extremely favorable assumptions for evolution were used in the Eyre-Walker & Keightley article. If more realistic assumptions are used the problem gets much worse. First, they estimate that insertions/deletions and some functional non-genic sequences would each independently add 10% to the rate. Second, and more importantly, they assume a functional genome size of only 2.25% (60K genes). When they assume a more widely accepted 3% functional genome (80K genes), they cite U = 3.1, which they admit is "remarkably high" (even this may be a favorable assumption, considering Maynard Smith estimates the genic area to be between 9 - 27%7).
even the evolutionists admit the rate is closer to 3 when they used the correct size of a functioning genome.
now, from the second article:
Nachmann and Crowell detail the perplexing situation at hand in the following conclusion from their fairly recent paper on human mutation rates: The high deleterious mutation rate in humans presents a paradox. If mutations interact multiplicatively, the genetic load associated with such a high U [detrimental mutation rate] would be intolerable in species with a low rate of reproduction [like humans and apes etc.] . . . The reduction in fitness (i.e., the genetic load) due to deleterious mutations with multiplicative effects is given by 1 - e -U (Kimura and Moruyama 1966). For U = 3, the average fitness is reduced to 0.05, or put differently, each female would need to produce 40 offspring for 2 to survive and maintain the population at constant size.
www.detectingdesign.com...
the research backing the two papers i've cited was carried out by evolutionists, not creationists. you'd know that if you had even looked at them. hell, you didn't even bother to find a paper that disagrees, you basically state "you're wrong because you're wrong".
this tells me you have no care for evidence because you already assume all opposing views as wrong, no matter what evidence exists to back them up. sadly this is what i've come to expect from people who claim evolution is science.