Posted on 01/26/2006 11:47:13 AM PST by PatrickHenry
Nice to see you too, Luis.
Missed it..... how long was the troll around?
He wasn't around very long. Check out 156 to see what you missed.
Trying to understand tends to beat trying not to.
Actually, this site doesn't like posts calling for rebellion, either.
After I posted, I hit abuse (for the first time) and said it sounded like classic anti-Semitism.
Now that's a conspiracy theory. When I got to:
"The Myth of Disease: Copper deficiency is responsible for virtually EVERY disease and symptoms manifesting now, accelerating aging, and death. Parkinsons, MS, mental depression, diabetes, autism, ADD, pancreatic, digestive problems, low hormone production, Cystic Fibrosis, bone & muscle degenerative conditions, shortened lifespan, and the list goes on. These things happen gradually over time, so we do not suspect we are slowly being poisoned."
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.....
Of course, there was a another Freeper a few months ago who claimed that the very same list of illnesses were caused by some OTHER conspiracy, so it would have been entertaining to have seen the two of them face off with each other; a sort of duelling Conspiracy Theories, as it were.
Was that a "If a frog had a glass ass..?" comment?
P.S. I think your comment "more complex organisms have even more magnitudes of layers to fight off mutations." is akin to the Federal government calling my pencil eraser a federal tool to fight corruption when I use it to fix an error on my 1040.
Akin to an immune system is the ticket.
Another reason for zinc in the diet.
Hmm. And here I thought the immune system fought off intruders not mutations.
Hmmm and hmmmm, Andrew. Go read up on auto-immune disorders.
Auto immunity is a malfunction, not a protection against mutation. For instance.... Sometimes the process breaks down and the immune system attacks self-cells. This is the case of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and some forms of arthritis and diabetes.
The immune system also fights and assists the fight against mutations. Also other major systems in the organism help fight off the bad effects of mutations, such as the renal and lymphatic systems acting to remove toxins, and other systems provide the resources the immumne system needs-- such as the bone struture providing a housing for the bone marrow which creates the immune agents for delivery and patroling via the blood.
"I do deny them my essence." placemark
The immune system and adjuncts are obviously designed and intended to fight off infection, to remove dead, grossly malfunctioning, and unrepairably broken cells, as as such removes or isolates mutant cells and cell groups.
As I stated, as much as my pencil eraser fights and assists the fight against federal corruption.
Just to hilight the point of subdiscussion here ... You seem to have put forth an assertion that Shapiro's claim that he has observed high rates of surviving mutants in single celled organisms discounts Schwartz's claim that cells STRONGLY resist mutation. Do I have that correct?
Nope. They both claim (I believe correctly so) that cells strongly resist mutation. Shapiro (and now apparently Schwartz) claim that the mutations are in response to external stimuli and are not just accidental.
And what is your argument or agreement with Shapiro and Schwartz? I am unclear as to the point you were attempting to make by bringing in Shapiro's work.
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