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Human Brain Still Evolving
Forbes.com ^
| 9/8/2005
| Alan Mozes
Posted on 09/08/2005 5:16:56 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: SkyPilot
"There is no such thing as evolution. Has the author of this article ever heard of entropy?"
Have you? Do you have any idea what the 2nd Law of thermodynamics is or says?
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posted on
09/08/2005 6:47:26 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: SkyPilot
The problem with saying our brains are evolving is that the poor and under educated are doing the most procreating. In terms of serviving, the best of mankind are dying as soldiers, the intellectuals are having fewer children, and the stupid are breeding like rabbits for more welfare checks. That doesn't result in improvements in brain power.
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posted on
09/08/2005 6:50:28 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: Mike Bates
Lets see we have
microcephalin and abnormal spindle-like microcephaly-associated (ASPM)
Abnormal spindle-like?
I know people with an abundance of this goo.
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posted on
09/08/2005 6:54:13 PM PDT
by
JamminJAY
(This space for rent)
To: Salamander
And we may be left with no other choice than to poop in their parks.
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
If Hollyweird is lurking, there's sure to be a "Planet of the Pigeons" released soon...:)
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:00:42 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(There's nothing that "MORE COWBELL!" can't fix.......)
To: Mike Bates
"I think a lot of people might consider humans to be at the pinnacle of evolutionary lineage -- that we have achieved an advanced state as a species, and we have basically become the end-game," said study co-author Bruce T. Lahn, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago. "But what we found indicates that the species -- particularly when it comes to the brain, which is perhaps our most defining feature -- is still evolving." Since orthodox secular science says that all life is always evolving, this would be a most un-noteworthy statement.
If we are looking to the kind of evolution that is guided by natural selection, however, it would seem that being predisposed to Islam is a great evolutionary boon. They have enough offspring to lose hundreds in suicide bombings and still pose a demographic threat to the world. Take from that what you will.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:01:55 PM PDT
by
drlevy88
To: Mike Bates
Actually the article has profound implications for TOE. If a "positive" mutation isn't limited to a single generation but can continue to advance over several generations as an inherited "good" then such a "mutation" can continue to advance the species for generations. This answers so many of the Creationist's arguments about the lack of "good" mutations that it is mind-boggling to anyone who doesn't yet have the gene (now who would fall into that category?)
How big do human brains have to be before they are no longer "sapiens" and are something else?
IOW maybe "WE" are the missing link.
Sorry, have to go now. ET phone home.
To: Mike Bates
This evolution thingy must be stopped. Why, if it continues, our generation will, in a million or so years, be regarded as pin heads.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:06:51 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: CarolinaGuitarman
But don't you know that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics has nothing to do with evolution? /sarcasm
I did a google search on it and you wouldn't BELIEVE what's out there on the subject both in quantity and quality. It's amazing how far people will distort facts to prove a point.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:18:41 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
"But don't you know that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics has nothing to do with evolution? /sarcasm "
Is there a reason for the sarcasm? The 2nd law DOESN'T have anything to do with evolution.
I mean the real 2nd Law, not the creationist rewrite.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:35:51 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
That would make it the one exception. Then it wouldn't be a law. If everything tends to go to a state of disorder, what is the force behind it coming together. Even if scientists recreate the conditions that they believe existed at that time, and I don't believe there is any way to verify what they were, then it's still life creating life.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:51:27 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
excellent...
To: metmom
That would make it the one exception.
No, the point is that, despite dishonest creationist claims, the second law of thermodynamics is not a problem for the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution proposes no contradictions to the second law of thermodynamics.
If everything tends to go to a state of disorder, what is the force behind it coming together.
This is not the second law of thermodynamics.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:58:15 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: SkyPilot
There is no such thing as evolution. Has the author of this article ever heard of entropy?
What does the second have to do with the first? Be specific.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:59:06 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: metmom
Gee, is a "closed system" like a "closed mind" in the fantasy world you live in?
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:02:26 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(A myth by any other name is still inane.)
To: Coyoteman
The herd is constantly being thinned - examples can be found at the
Darwin Awards The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:07:46 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Servant of the 9
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:08:23 PM PDT
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: Dimensio
Be specific. Before I answer, tell me--please. What is the status of your faith in God, or lack there of?
Many thanks.
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:12:13 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: glorgau
The herd is constantly being thinned - examples can be found at the Darwin Awards The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.
The Darwin Awards! Evolution in Action!
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:12:35 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Is this a good tagline?)
To: Mike Bates
The evolution of the human brain is not quite a done deal...I think a lot of people might consider humans to be at the pinnacle of evolutionary lineage
This is why I don't trust scientists in general. They actually believe we have completely evolved and there is no more change to occur...nitwits, I bet they spent a lot of money to get to that conclusion, sigh
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posted on
09/08/2005 8:15:42 PM PDT
by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
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