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Changing One Gene Launches New Fly Species
Science Daily ^
| 08 December 2003
| Staff
Posted on 12/09/2003 7:47:21 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
We were quite impressed, that this simple alteration played such a dramatic role, both adapting flies to a new environment and changing their sex appeal.
I suddenly found my self more attracted to brunettes than blonds shortly after I moved from Kansas to Georgia. I wonder if I was the victim of a genetic experiment gone awry.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:10:22 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: PatrickHenry
Specation observed.
Well, I don't think you will find ONE SINGLE creationist or Intelligent Design backer that does not believe that DNA contains the blueprint for every life form on this planet.
They replaced a gene to create a different blueprint. If they replaced enough of them, I am sure that you could come up with a fruitfly with a snake's body having banana's sticking out of it's arse.
The point is this was done MANUALLY, It was NOT observed naturally, and there most definitely was intelligence behind the creation of a different blueprint.
When man starts to take on the role of God, it won't matter how smart we think we are or how much we think we know about the origin of life, because ours will be shortened.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:13:04 AM PST
by
ImaGraftedBranch
(Education starts in the home. Education stops in the public schools)
To: PatrickHenry
Great... this is the stuff I worry about... People tweaking genes. Tweak a gene create a new bug, tweak another create a new virus, I like progress and the options this science has .... but face it we as a people aren't all that bright. How much tweaking does it to take to do serious damage.
Damn near 50% of the people voted for Gore.
To: PatrickHenry
It just proves the intelligent designer theory because this would never have happened accidentially. Genes just don't randomly swap around. There is a very elaborate process by which genes repair themselves to their original state. A deliberate laboratory forced change does NOT equal natural change.
BTW, how would more less resistance to starvation and more resistance to cooler weather make it more likely to survive? Cooler climates typically have LESS food available during parts of the year.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:19:17 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: pepsi_junkie
I'm glad I'm not the guy who gets to see if the two different sets of flies can or can't make little flies together. Now, there's a job.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:21:43 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mike_9958
I'm sitting here wondering if the new fly looks anything like that guy in the movie...
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:23:24 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: Judith Anne
Help me, help me!!!
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:25:47 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: PatrickHenry
Gee, I wonder how much study it took for these educated idiots to discover that changing a gene changes a critter.
I guess there is a reason for mating after all, huh. Speciation my butt.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:28:00 AM PST
by
Havoc
(If you can't be frank all the time are you lying the rest of the time?)
To: pepsi_junkie
This proved that a small genetic change (somehow occurring, either by direct intervenion or perhaps by random mutation) will change the characteristics within a species. As far as I can tell, they may still interbreed. Even the scientists hedge by saying they have seen the first step in the proces of speciation only. Progress indeed. But for it to lead somewhere, they need to prove that eventually they can create different species altogether (i.e. unable to interbreed). There you go, confusing the Darwinists with the facts.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:28:33 AM PST
by
Phaedrus
To: mewzilla
Where DID that flyswatter go...?
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:29:37 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: PatrickHenry
Maybe something is wrong with the software. This thread appeared in the "NEWS/ACTIVISM" topics.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:29:50 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(Vote Republican, we're not as bad as the other guys.)
To: Phaedrus
Why wouldn't Darwinists make the same point you just did?
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:29:53 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Judith Anne
Hee hee. Need a flyswatter? Click
here.
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:33:25 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
EIGHT NINETY FIVE FOR A FRIKKEN FLYSWATTER!
Dang!
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:35:30 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: mewzilla
Incidently, there has been research on fruit flies since I was in high school (shortly after the great flood, I think).
They've been producing mutated flies with everything from acid to X-rays in the little buggers because they're apparently easy to work with, have been the subject of no focus groups, and haven't been lawyered up for reparations.
Seriously, PETA doesn't even care. How low can a fly get?
;-D
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:40:19 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: Judith Anne
LOL. But they're
French flyswatters, don'cha know. Tres chic.
And on a related note, how does one tell the boy flies from the girl flies? If they don't interbreed, how do they know they just don't have a batch of flies of the same gender?
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:43:19 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
And on a related note, how does one tell the boy flies from the girl flies? If they don't interbreed, how do they know they just don't have a batch of flies of the same gender? Same way you find mothballs. See, there are these little tiny tweezers that hold their little legs....
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:47:06 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: PatrickHenry
Thanks for the ping!
To: ImaGraftedBranch
The point is this was done MANUALLY, It was NOT observed naturally, and there most definitely was intelligence behind the creation of a different blueprint. This experiment wasn't designed to demonstrate the presence of a designer. It identifies a direct genetic contribution to a speciation event. The results confirm theoretical predictions.
If there was an experiment that demonstrated the presence of a designer, say, something elegant, like the double-slit light experiment, would you discount the results because it was done manually?
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:05:23 AM PST
by
Nebullis
To: mewzilla
If they don't interbreed, how do they know they just don't have a batch of flies of the same gender? (There are no stupid questions!)
They're very easy to tell apart. Size, stripes, and sex combs. No tweezers necessary.
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posted on
12/09/2003 10:09:02 AM PST
by
Nebullis
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