[PatrickHenry]

Not quite a validation of intelligent design, but everyone be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping The List-O-Links

A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 320 names. See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped. To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit, and How to argue against a scientific theory.

[Monti Cello]

I cannot afford to age. I still have to generate offspring, but I don’t have enough food to do it now

That's what I tried telling my girlfriend, just before she hit the road.

[SMARTY]

"Longo urged caution in extrapolating the result to humans."

Appropriate name

[doc30]

It would be ironic if the anti-aging genes also regulate weight. If, in nature, it is switch because of starvation, artificially inducing the switch would lead to a very, very long life, possibly with obesity as a result. In other words, you could live 300 years, but you have to be fat.

[aimhigh]

Not quite a validation of intelligent design,

Sure it is. When God created Adam and Eve, they lived for hundreds of years. Over time, due to sin, genetics deteriorated and shortened our life spans. There's no evidence here of accidental improvement in life span.

[spinestein]

I hope I never see the day when people can arbitrarily extend their life spans to many times their natural length.

[VadeRetro]

So maybe we could live six times as long if we forced our bodies into this extreme crisis mode and simulated starvation and other extreme stresses upon ourselves. Or maybe it would just seem like six times as long.

I'm not gonna try it. Let's get Mikey to try it.

[ThinkDifferent]

Very interesting. Wonder if these guys will take a shot at the Mprize.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Don't fall for it! It is an enviromentalists scheme to rid the earth of people. :-)

[John Robertson]

Cool! So I'm NOT wasting precious life on FR--there's so much more to come than I realized!