Posted on 02/08/2011 5:47:18 AM PST by decimon
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I see similarity in the modern approach to evolution. Everything that has happened over the course of billions of years is because of evolution. It is the magic explanation for everything. And it's all good. Cancer? That's evolution! And it's a toolkit! We're lucky to have it! Really!
Pollyanna science -- they've hitched their wagon to evolution and now must constantly invent evidence that it is real and good.
Interesting, but I don’t follow the part where he says cancer is a “preprogrammed response to stress”. Does that mean that those of us who don’t stress don’t get cancer? Everything I’ve read previously suggest that cancer occurs due to genetic mistakes in the reproduction of cells, leading to cancer cells that reproduce out of control. Kind of like what might happen if you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy..... If the copy process is sloppy, eventually you may end up with a copy that is a transmogrification of the original.
Stress is a generic term in biology.
Stress can be heat, cold, mutagens, redox, too little nutrient, too much nutrient, too little oxygen or too much, high or low osmolality, etc.
They aren’t referring to the emotion elicited by an Obama speech.
The “coming era of personalized medicine” and obamacare are diametrically opposed.
I personally believe that Genesis is true but I also believe in an old Earth. I know it’s complicated but it makes sense to me.
As far as using the theories of evolution for the study of biology, well, it is a successful approach in general. When God created man and every other creature, he used the same tool box.
Let me put it in non-evolutionary terms ~ GOD created cancer. Now live with it!
See, a real "Creationist" point of view in that ~ you don't need MUTATIONS ~ it was there all along!
Me too. All you have to know is that God's days are probably VERY long.
“osmolality”
I’d add that to my working vocabulary but I’d never be sure when it should be ‘osmolality’ and when it should be ‘osmolarity.’
It's those meetings.
Sorry, osmolality is the term used when measuring osmolarity in body fluids such as blood.
I can’t keep them straight either, I had to do a quick google search to see which was which.
First creationists say evolution has no place in modern science, predicts nothing, helps nothing. Then when evolution is used to try to cure disease you say it's suddenly a magic explanation for everything. News flash, evolution is widely used in science. Most successful theories are.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find a Creationist who believed that. I do not believe in evolution -- but I recognize that it is the dominant paradigm in biology today. I don't want to force it out of the classroom. I don't want to force it out of the textbooks.
All I want is for discussions of science to include additional discussion from those of us who feel that evolution is a flawed theory.
It is the evolutionist who feel that counter-arguments have "no place in modern science". What you are engaged in, would be considered "projection" by a psychologist.
I was expecting an discernible relation to osmosis. Didn’t see that in the definition.
Osmolarity is the measure of solute concentration, defined as the number of osmoles (Osm) of solute per liter (L) of solution (osmol/L or Osm/L).
Osmolality is a measure of the osmoles of solute per kilogram of solvent (osmol/kg or Osm/kg).
I see evolution as a theory that has served us well but that will in time be superceded. Charles Darwin will be wrong in the sense that Isaac Newton was wrong.
Osmolality is a measure of the osmoles of solute per kilogram of solvent (osmol/kg or Osm/kg).
This is all part of the conspiracy to make me feel stupid. ;-)
All scientific theories are flawed or limited in some way.
It is the evolutionist who feel that counter-arguments have "no place in modern science".
Counter-arguments are fine, they've been going on for over 150 years, and evolution still stands as the dominant scientific theory.
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