You Are What Your Grandmother Ate

New Scientist ^ | 11-13-2006 | Roxanne Khamsi

[EggsAckley]

Hmmm, I must be chitlins, corn bread, southern fried chicken,okra and pee-can pie.

~/<;o)

[beaversmom]

Well from one grandma, I'm roast beef, boiled potatoes, and lots and lots of "afters" as grandma used to call her after meal snacks. The other grandma, moonshine. Anyway, I'm glad I know I can blame more people for any problems I might have.

[GourmetDan]

Hmmm.

This would indicate that it is very possible that eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil really did cause death to enter Adam and Eve and their offspring.

Mainstream science takes another hit. The Bible is shown accurate once again.

[A. Pole]

The new mouse experiment lends support to the idea that we inherit not only our genes from our parents, but also a set of instructions that tell the genes when to become active. These instructions appear to be passed on through "epigenetic" changes to DNA – genes can be activated or silenced according to the chemical groups that are added onto them.

Another hint that the crude "Darwinian" scheme is false. Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Hmmm, I must be chitlins, corn bread, southern fried chicken,okra and pee-can pie.

I think we're related.
Just add some sausage gravy, biscuits, mashed potatoes, dumplings and grits.
:)

[theFIRMbss]

>You Are What Your Grandmother Ate

Monica's grandkids, I guess, will be the future of the 'Rat party . . .

[Carl LaFong]

My grandmother baked cakes with the density of a nuetron star.I should have collapsed to the center of the earth by now.

[Little Bill]

One Grannie, a herring choker, potatoes and salt cod fried in bacon grease, the second Grannie could make fried poop taste good, the first 98 the second 76.

[GSlob]

"Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words."
Then go directly to proletarian Michurinite theory and cut the intermediate crap.

[Silly]

My grandmother NEVER ate mice!

[ItsForTheChildren]

There's already plenty of them in DC.

On both sides of the aisle.

[Little Bill]

She called it rabbit, :).

[Randy Larsen]

LOL! My mom always told me that I was a twin...The baby died and the turd lived!

[Michael.SF.]

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[outofsalt]

Bwahahahahahah!

[A. Pole]

"Some day Lamarck will be rehabilitated, mark my words."

Then go directly to proletarian Michurinite theory and cut the intermediate crap.

Dear Sir. Lamarck developed his theory long before Michurin and before Darwin. And Darwin repeated several Lamarck ideas.

You cannot claim that Darwin was more right than Lamarck in matters of inheritance because the genetics was developed AFTER Darwin.

Science is moving and we get more and more evidence against crude scheme of random mutations followed by inefficient selection. The movement of genetic information is not unidirectional (retroviruses demonstrate it), is not restricted to one species (genes can be shared/distributed), and DNA is not a master but rather a servant (selectively used like a library by a living organism). We know only a fragment of this amazing design.

Crude Free Market scheme of random mutations is not any better than "proletarian Michurinite theory". It is equally unscientific and equally ideological.

[NicknamedBob]

"Mainstream science takes another hit. The Bible is shown accurate once again."

And thus, we have more scientific proof that science is wrong.

I love it when philosophers go "poof" and disappear.

[blam]

"Just add some sausage gravy, biscuits, mashed potatoes, dumplings and grits."

Don't forget tomato and red-eye gravies.

[Doomonyou]

Hmmm, I must be chitlins, corn bread, southern fried chicken,okra and pee-can pie.

Ditto, with catfish.