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To: Zavien Doombringer; CarolinaGuitarman
Evolution is not a fact. It is based on assumptions. Hoping that the results will concur with the theory...

Evolution is defined as ongoing change whether by reproduction or nature. 6.7 billion people have observed they are different and most will agree that no two are the same. Zavien would be a exception. Look in the mirror and look at a picture of your parents. If there is any difference no matter how small some evolution or change has occurred. However if evolution is not a fact and you can observe no change, difference or evolution then your premise is true and you are a clone. Zavien should write a scientific theory or book explaining his cloning!!!

1,206 posted on 04/07/2006 12:57:58 PM PDT by jec41 (Screaming Eagle)
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To: jec41
Reproductive Cloning:

Reproductive cloning is a technology used to generate an animal that has the same nuclear DNA as another currently or previously existing animal. Dolly was created by reproductive cloning technology.

In a process called "somatic cell nuclear transfer" (SCNT), scientists transfer genetic material from the nucleus of a donor adult cell to an egg whose nucleus, and thus its genetic material, has been removed.

The reconstructed egg containing the DNA from a donor cell must be treated with chemicals or electric current in order to stimulate cell division. Once the cloned embryo reaches a suitable stage, it is transferred to the uterus of a female host where it continues to develop until birth.

Dolly or any other animal created using nuclear transfer technology is not truly an identical clone of the donor animal. Only the clone's chromosomal or nuclear DNA is the same as the donor. Some of the clone's genetic materials come from the mitochondria in the cytoplasm of the enucleated egg. Mitochondria, which are organelles that serve as power sources to the cell, contain their own short segments of DNA. Acquired mutations in mitochondrial DNA are believed to play an important role in the aging process.

Dolly's success is truly remarkable because it proved that the genetic material from a specialized adult cell, such as an udder cell programmed to express only those genes needed by udder cells, could be reprogrammed to generate an entire new organism. Before this demonstration, scientists believed that once a cell became specialized as a liver, heart, udder, bone, or any other type of cell, the change was permanent and other unneeded genes in the cell would become inactive. Some scientists believe that errors or incompleteness in the reprogramming process cause the high rates of death, deformity, and disability observed among animal clones: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml

As I have said before, there are no true clones

1,207 posted on 04/07/2006 1:08:50 PM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
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To: jec41
Look in the mirror and look at a picture of your parents. If there is any difference no matter how small some evolution or change has occurred.

That is not evolution...

It that were the case, then we would be progressivley getting smarter, stronger and live longer. We know that isn't the case. We would also see less and less of genetic deformaties, which isn't the case either.

You are implying that reproducing causes evolution...

Evolution would mean that the appendix, toncils and uvula would have had to have to be phased out after all these years, after all, we don't need them in the body...

1,210 posted on 04/07/2006 1:17:01 PM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
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