Posted on 08/16/2008 9:47:38 AM PDT by Soliton
Recent changes in hearing-related genes may have influenced language development
First, stroll up the ear canal. This is a fantasy, so no waxy buildup blocks the way. At the end of the fleshy tunnel, squeeze around the huge, circular membrane better known as the eardrum. Gingerly sidestep the precariously balanced, oddly shaped middle ear bones and proceed into the inner ear. Up ahead, rising like skyscrapers from a flat landscape, looms a cluster of stereocilia. These slender, interconnected projections sit atop the basic sensory elements of hearing — the inner ear hair cells. Bundles of gently waving stereocilia serve as receptacles for sound waves delivered from hair cells, transforming those waves into electrical signals that travel to the brain to be interpreted.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
Cool picture on the link.
OK, so prove it’s not.
Of course? Oh, ok, so a smug and glib ejaculation like this is proof positive that creationists are wrong? Sorry, you do your evolutionist faith no credit. Try offering your own version of what you believe. I bet you you cannot do it.
ML/NJ
Get ready for an onslaught of the Young Earth Creationists.
Excerpt form the article:
“In a new study, anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison finds that eight hearing-related genes show signs of having evolved systematically in human populations over the past 40,000 years. Some alterations on these genes took root as recently as 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.”
So, this “proves” something? Actually it seems to me it confirms the “newness” of our higher order abilities like language. In fact, this is the whole point of the article. Why golly gee, that seems also to fit the “myth” of creation as well!
A presumption of evolution requires the convoluted explanatiion postulated in this article. Again there are no facts presented, no obesrvations presented, just references to genes. Has anyone ever seen a gene evolve?
What is a systematic evolution? I thought evolution was the name for the supposed system? Evolutionary thinking is so muddled and confused. I really don’t understand how people believe it to be scientific.
Evolution is just as “onslaughty”, except it’s adherents, despite the subject matter of the article, warn each other not to use their “hearing” on forums like this. I get the distinct feeling that you all are covering your ears and eyes right now in order to willfully avoid any debate about your faith.
How could have human populations “Evolved” over 40,000 years when the earth in only 5,800 years old?
YEC INTREP
it doesnt matter, i have stated a zillion times on this board, the religion of evolutionism and its adherents like soliton, have the benefit of the super elastic bubble plastic theory of evolutionism..
anyTHING AND EVERYTHING, can and will provide ‘proof’ of evolutionism....it will be called ‘science’ by worshipers like soliton, and any opposition will be called non-science by those in the congregation..
REMEMBER, evolutionism is ANYTHING YOU WANT OR NEED IT TO BE.
Obama is all ears.
Sped up? rotflmao
....and this is supposed to be science
“We have to be cautious in making inferences about the rate of selective change in human populations,” she says.
It looks like the evolutionists can't agree on this one.
I read the guy's logic for why the ear has evolved. Apparently the use of sounds in language has something to do with it. If this were true we would be able to get mice to speak Chinese by making them listen to recordings in a lab. What a silly way of trying to explain God's design.
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