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1 posted on 09/15/2009 8:09:13 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

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2 posted on 09/15/2009 8:09:59 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Here’s the last line of the article:

“See? Just like it says in Genesis! The End”

What exactly is an “ID scientist”, anyway? Why does ID need “science” to proclaim that life is too complex to investigate further? Seems like you would just have to be a zealot.

3 posted on 09/15/2009 8:17:11 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)

The article cites the Cambrian period which occurred 490 to 543 million years ago.

How does this fit in with the supposed (unlikely) “young” 6,000 year-old earth theory?

Sounds like the “just-so” YEC crew just shot themselves in the foot.

4 posted on 09/15/2009 8:19:24 AM PDT by humblegunner

I think it was the development of multicellular life that set off the Precambrian explosion.

5 posted on 09/15/2009 8:24:33 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)

Dr. Hunter posed some interesting questions, well, at first he did, then he turned on his own argument and began to poo-poo the studies (one an essay from Dartmouth College, and the other a fascinating piece in Science Daily) without supporting his rationale. He got one thing right - the presumption of three students that micro-RNA could explain the Cambrian explosion (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19472371 “We propose that because phenotypic variation decreases through geologic time, because microRNAs (miRNAs) increase genic precision, by turning an imprecise number of mRNA transcripts into a more precise number of protein molecules, and because miRNAs are continuously being added to metazoan genomes through geologic time, miRNAs might be instrumental in the canalization of development.”)is tenuous at best.

His citation of the Science Daily article to bolster his nay-bobbery was unfortunate and misplaced. There is simply no way that he can properly write a supportable critique in just 39 lines (only 39 lines written by him, the rest of the article is quotes).

7 posted on 09/15/2009 8:29:48 AM PDT by FormerRep

Beginning some 555 million years ago the Earth’s biota changed in profound and fundamental ways, going from an essentially static system billions of years in existence to the one we find today...

So it wasn't 6000 years ago afterall?

9 posted on 09/15/2009 8:33:10 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with vegetarian T. rex within the last 4,351 years?)

God did it!

I don’t question how long he took, or why he has allowed these arguments to come up. I just know that IS one God.

I love learning about history, from the dinosaurs to ancient structures telling of the solstices, from the study of apes to DNA.

But, my DNA was created by God, and so was yours. Thanks!

11 posted on 09/15/2009 8:44:04 AM PDT by wizr ( Freedom ain't free, and common sense ain't common, it's a gift, from God.)

God did it!

I don’t question how long he took, or why he has allowed these arguments to come up. I just know that THERE IS one God.

I love learning about history, from the dinosaurs to ancient structures telling of the solstices, from the study of apes to DNA.

But, my DNA was created by God, and so was yours. Thanks!

12 posted on 09/15/2009 8:45:35 AM PDT by wizr ( Freedom ain't free, and common sense ain't common, it's a gift, from God.)

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