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Brain gene shows dramatic difference from chimp to human
EurekAlert (AAAS) ^ | 16 August 2006 | Staff

Posted on 08/16/2006 11:38:54 AM PDT by PatrickHenry

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41 posted on 08/16/2006 12:10:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Senator Bedfellow; tallhappy

a thread last night


43 posted on 08/16/2006 12:14:29 PM PDT by GeronL (flogerloon.blogspot.com -------------> Rise of the Hate Party)
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To: tallhappy
One of the fastest-evolving pieces of DNA in the human genome is a gene linked to brain development.

Notice that there is no way to prove any piece of this sentence. You can't prove that it has evolved or that it is evolving, you can't prove what this gene has to do with brain development. The word 'linked' is meaningless. There is also no way to show how a gene controls the development of anything outside the cell.

44 posted on 08/16/2006 12:16:12 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: Coyoteman
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Brain gene shows dramatic difference from chimpDemocrat to human.

Jag!


45 posted on 08/16/2006 12:16:50 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Sopater

Whatever part of Islam derives from Judaism or Christianity, the business about God turning men into apes is purely Koranic.


46 posted on 08/16/2006 12:18:10 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Someone earlier raised the issue of eugenics and Hitler, as if this were something new in the world since Darwin. Darwin had nothing to do with the issue, however:

Greek warrior Spartan civilization. Weakling infants were left in the mountains to die.
The Republic, Book 5, Section 1. Plato recommended state-supervised selective breeding of children.

48 posted on 08/16/2006 12:19:56 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Everything is blasphemy to somebody.)
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To: sylphly

The topic of culture in animals is quite intriguing.


49 posted on 08/16/2006 12:20:15 PM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: DungeonMaster
Genes, in fact, control things "outside the cell" by producing proteins for use elsewhere in the body.

Interesting little things those genes. Like little machines made in a factory even.

50 posted on 08/16/2006 12:20:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: PatrickHenry

If you don't want someone to find something, hide it in such a pile of extraneous and irrelevant stuff that they will never take the time to sort it out and you can claim they are stupid or lazy. Is that what it takes for evolution worshippers to keep their self-image together.

You constantly post barrages of links to pages which themsleves are composed of barrages of links to pages with yet more links. Yet you'll give the link some seemingly straitforward title like "The Evidence for human evolution." As a healthy skeptic of neo-Darwinism and hater of leftist propganda tactics I'm constantly disappointed when I actually try to listen to the Darwinists or read what they really have to say.

Here is the only intelligent site on these issues from an evolutionist I've ever found. He honestly interacts with the best of the anti-Darwin world.

http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/


52 posted on 08/16/2006 12:21:42 PM PDT by Rippin
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To: PatrickHenry

Deliberate ignorance is such a sad thing to witness.


53 posted on 08/16/2006 12:22:12 PM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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To: muawiyah
Still, chimps are pretty smart.

They also have an uncanny ability to best professional stockpickers simply by throwing darts at stock listings, even when blindfolded!

54 posted on 08/16/2006 12:22:44 PM PDT by Starboard
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"It's evolving incredibly rapidly," Pollard said. "It's really an extreme case."

Without having read this thread yet, but having read many a preceding one, I can guess the reactions to this by many in the FR community. If a scientist as a matter of linguistic convenience uses a word that implies design, that in itself is somehow proof of ID. However, if as in the above-quoted case he flat-out says that something has been and still is evolving, that only shows he's letting his preconceptions, suppositions, assumptions, and materialist worldview run away with his logic.

55 posted on 08/16/2006 12:23:33 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Starboard

And, they show they are even smarter than us by not giving any of their income to those stockpickers.


56 posted on 08/16/2006 12:23:35 PM PDT by muawiyah
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And the fact is, even if Nazi eugenics were scientifically sound, that wouldn't change the truth value of evolution whatsoever.

As Darwin knew (and Hitler didn't) the more variability there is in a species, the better its chances of survival over the long run. Hitler's scheme was almost a guarantee of eventual extinction. A sad example of attempted "intelligent design."

57 posted on 08/16/2006 12:25:10 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Everything is blasphemy to somebody.)
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To: GeronL

I'd double-check that.


58 posted on 08/16/2006 12:26:02 PM PDT by Senator Bedfellow (If you're not sure, it was probably sarcasm.)
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To: PatrickHenry
The abstract

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature05113.html

"the sequences of the HAR1 transcripts reported in this study have been submitted to GenBank (accession numbers DQ860409 - DQ860415" but they are not accessible yet.
59 posted on 08/16/2006 12:27:17 PM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: muawiyah

'I'll have some fish and chimps, please'.

Somebody had to say it.


60 posted on 08/16/2006 12:28:34 PM PDT by squarebarb
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