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DNA has a 521-year half-life
Nature ^ | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | Matt Kaplan

Posted on 10/10/2012 8:32:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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DNA has a 521-year half-life

1 posted on 10/10/2012 8:32:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Thanks Renfield.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


2 posted on 10/10/2012 8:34:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Any word on what causes the breakdown?

Or are we are the start of that hunt?

/johnny

3 posted on 10/10/2012 8:38:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SunkenCiv
Interesting. On the other hand, in your body during life it is estimated that there are 10’s of thousands - possibly millions - occurrences of DNA damage per cell per day. Seriously - those are the estimates. Obviously most of these are repaired.
4 posted on 10/10/2012 8:41:31 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: SunkenCiv

Dinosaurs, humans, and everything else, are less than 10,000 years old. If you don’t agree I pray for your soul.


5 posted on 10/10/2012 8:42:51 PM PDT by SAR (Son of THE Revolution.)
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To: SAR

I’ll pray for your brain.


6 posted on 10/10/2012 8:44:36 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Go study your Bible and get back to me when you understand it. All you are supposed to know is there.


7 posted on 10/10/2012 8:46:06 PM PDT by SAR (Son of THE Revolution.)
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In order to refute evolution, one might normally wish for a modern human fossil in a coal bed, or a modern human in the jaws of a T Rex. Those would be the sort of head-scratchers that would make people think twice about the standard storyline of evolution.

But now, if this research is accurate, if we found viable dinosaur DNA, I imagine that would have people scratching their head. Because it shouldn't be possible -- but what if we find it?

8 posted on 10/10/2012 8:48:38 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: SAR

The Bible isn’t the literal truth, it tells truths.


9 posted on 10/10/2012 8:51:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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10 posted on 10/10/2012 8:52:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: EEGator

I have a zero tolerance policy for relativism. Please, elaborate on the assumptions you use to determine which of God’s words are truth, and which are open to being part of an interpretation of truth.

Thanks.


11 posted on 10/10/2012 8:56:17 PM PDT by SAR (Son of THE Revolution.)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Obviously most of these are repaired.

Is DNA damage (and lack of repair) what causes aging?

12 posted on 10/10/2012 8:56:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: SAR

God didn’t write the Bible, men did.


13 posted on 10/10/2012 8:58:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SAR

How do I build a computer chip?


14 posted on 10/10/2012 8:59:56 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1359 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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I have a zero tolerance policy for relativism.

You know, the Muslims say the exact same thing.

15 posted on 10/10/2012 9:02:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: null and void

It’s in Leviticus I think.


16 posted on 10/10/2012 9:03:36 PM PDT by EEGator
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God didn’t write the Bible, men did.

Yeah.... but God wrote the Ten Commandments. It even says so in the Bible. And he had to do it twice, because we are such idiots.

17 posted on 10/10/2012 9:04:06 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: EEGator

God authored the Bible, man only wrote it down.


18 posted on 10/10/2012 9:04:33 PM PDT by SAR (Son of THE Revolution.)
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To: EEGator

God authored the Bible, man only wrote it down.


19 posted on 10/10/2012 9:04:37 PM PDT by SAR (Son of THE Revolution.)
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To: UCANSEE2

20 posted on 10/10/2012 9:05:06 PM PDT by EEGator
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