Posted on 10/19/2009 9:39:38 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Complex machines often have lots of knobs provided for adjustment: think of a jumbo jet, a television set or a DVD player. With a radio set you can twiddle the knobs to tune a different station or increase the volume or adjust the tone. But you can twiddle the controls on your radio as much as you like, it wont change into a TV set.
The natural changes we see in living things are like twiddling the knobs on a complex machine: they can fine-tune the settings, but cannot create something completely new. For example, an enzyme in a bacterium might be optimized to work at a given temperature. If the bacterium finds itself in a slightly hotter environment, mutations can optimize the enzyme to work at the different temperature and natural selection would favour the new version. This is mere fine-tuning of existing abilities; twiddling the knobs.
With antibiotic resistance, a mutation can result in...
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Another installment from Constipation Magazine...
It won't produce another radio, either.
Like just about everything GGG posts.
Now that you have submitted your comments to us, we grade your comments “F” for lack of substantiation on your position taken.
Thanks for the ping!
And? No analogy is perfect, but the point is very apt.
Q: How is a raven like a writing desk?
A: Poe wrote on both.
A Bridgeport milling machine, OTOH, has been oft described as "The machine that can make itself."
And the old joke about a Woman, a Radio, and finely adjusted knobs.
At least that has some (ahem) bearing (ahem) on this situation. It won't produce another radio, either, I bet.
...hurl.
At least you collet (ahem) as you see ‘um.
Twaddle for boobs would have been a better title.
==Twaddle for boobs would have been a better title.
I can see how you would be attracted to such a title d:op
Biologists are typically too heavily invested in the Darwinian paradigm to comprehend the truth about the cell and it's origins.
click on image.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Your lack of understanding of the academic grading process certainly makes the positions you take more understandable.
And those positions would be...?
Thanks for this link. Do you know if there is a explanatory text on-line, complementary to the video, that describes the various processes in the animation? Fascinating.
I think he used the word “design” enough times, complete with emphasis so even the most duped wouldn’t miss it....and some cute imagery. That’s right “Dr.”....a TV is not a radio, nor does a TV or radio have a mutation rate.
Grade: B-
Do your own homework...
Well, as we always say out here in the real world...
Those that can, do
Those that can’t, teach
That certainly is a position you are welcome to quote.
What you saw is the cell reproducing other cells like in a miniature factory......DNA ...RNA...PROTEINS ...copying.... assembly instructions being transported to the proper location ...followed by assembly etc.
After viewing these two DVDs followed by Ben Stein's "Expelled" ..everyone but the most hidebound atheist will see the truth of ID.
I recognize many of these processes. Great animation and accurate too. All the animation is based on electron microscopy and thousands of experiments on each of these processes. It’s all basic chemistry.
It takes a biologist to realize the truth of perpetual motion. Engineers are typically to heavily invested in the "friction" paradigm.
Really, why work hard at understanding anything? It just makes it harder to come up with new ideas.
There is No proof of any ID in the video you linked to. As I said these animations are ALL based on mountains of data.
What I can recognize are blood flow, cell-cell interaction, maybe collagen structure, splicing of RNA, microtubule assembly, vesicles moving along microtubles (yes that is how the protein moves them),viral protein or RNA synthesis,RNA exiting the nucleus via nuclear pores, golgi apparatus. and at the end, a white blood cell leaving the bloodstream.
The structure and how they function of a lot of these proteins are knownand what is shown can be shown to be simple chemical reactions.
Are we to understand that you are FR’s one true real honest-to-goodness Intelligent Design adherent?
I’ve been asking for one for months now, but all I get are creationists.
I’m so excited to have “met” you.
Good Lord. I would hope the man would be!!! (Although I think you meant dRop and not d:op.)
You're forgetting the necessary assembly instructions contained in DNA.
More chemistry.
The “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” on my bookshelf is also just mere basic, simple chemistry. Cellulose, inks, inorganic fillers, etc. Good explanation.
Yes it is chemistre. Each little ball or bump represents an atom. When you come down to it life is unique chemistry. Or on a more basic level, physics.
I apologize. I intended my previous post to be a bit of sarcasm. The book on my shelf is not just chemistry — it is filled with information that basic chemistry and physics cannot explain.
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