[Mike Bates]

Hope for Democrats?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Hank Rearden]

Not my brain! Ask anyone here.

[Windsong]

...that we have achieved an advanced state as a species, and we have basically become the end-game,"

i.e. Ye shall be as gods!

(where have we heard THAT before?)

[SkyPilot]

There is no such thing as evolution. Has the author of this article ever heard of entropy?

God created, and He did it just by speaking.

Now that is power.

[JamminJAY]

Lets see we have
”microcephalin” and “abnormal spindle-like microcephaly-associated (ASPM)”

Abnormal spindle-like?
I know people with an abundance of this goo.

[drlevy88]

"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.

[LogicWings]

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.

[Rudder]

This evolution thingy must be stopped. Why, if it continues, our generation will, in a million or so years, be regarded as pin heads.

[Vision]

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

[elephantlips]

The brain may be evolving but what we're putting in it is not.

[SunkenCiv]

some related links:

http://www.rednova.com/news/science/234594/researchers_find_human_brain_is_still_evolving/

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5741/1717

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5741/1720

[Perdogg]

[Age of Reason]

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

A fine example of subjective thinking.

[Dajjal]

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