Posted on 09/19/2009 4:39:55 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Two paleontologists met one day to have a chat. No, this is not the start of a joke—though aspects of it might sound that way when we see what they talked about. When Hans Larsson, the Canada Research Chair in Macro Evolution at Montreal’s McGill University had discussions with internationally renowned paleontologist Jack Horner (who served as scientific advisor for all three Jurassic Park movies), they came up with a truly astounding project.
The two were conferring about how they might better illustrate evolution to the general public, when Horner boldly shared his personal vision with Larsson. Horner, who gives “an awful lot of lectures”, pictures himself strolling on stage before a crowd, not with the standard lecture notes or powerpoint slides, but “the ultimate prop: a real live dinosaur on a leash”.[1]
How could such a wild dream become reality? In a nutshell, Horner told Larsson it should be possible to grow a dinosaur from a bird embryo...
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Ping!
If he pulls it off, will you go away?
I have no idea what it would prove, but they should do it just for the sheer coolness of it.
If he fails, will you go away?
Good read. Thanks.
“While that might sound ridiculously impossible to many readers”
Not even in the least bit. Birds are technically dinosaurs already. To get a chicken with teeth all you have to do is reactivate the ancient Talpid2 gene. It’s already been done in labs and it has been found in naturally occurring mutant chicks.
“So the “chickenosaurus” will actually have the genome of a chicken, be able to mate with chickens, and have offspring that are, well, chickens!”
DUH! They’re only changing two or three genes. Evolution involves millions of genetic changes along with partial genome conservation.
What Horner proposes sounds like a very low budget project. They will almost certainly succeed.
I don’t expect the first try to succeed.
You require that ALL tries fail.
It won’t tell us anything that we don’t already know. It will, however, be a very public demonstration of chicken history circa 60-80 million BC.
Let’s approach this another way.
You (and your WWN publications) seem to think that poking holes in the minutiae of the mechanics of TToE somehow advances your anti-science agenda.
Even if such silly articles of this were true (which I do not posit), it would merely mean that scientists would look at the mechanics and incorporate those mechanics into the theory. Unlike religion, science is self-correcting. New data are examined, theories and foundations reexamined (look at gravity for example), and the fact-based, reality-based world picture is adjusted.
Unless and until you have a substitute theory that does not include supernatural forces, you merely post “nya nya” articles of no substance. They don’t do anything to support your supernatural ideas.
So, keep posting these kinds of threads. They are funny and don’t do a thing to advance your attempt to bring down the USA through willful ignorance.
I’ll tell you what, how about you go away for a year each time they fail.
Buck-aw
>>The anti-science agenda is being pursued by the Temple of Darwin, which believes that biology is the study of super-sophisticated bio-nano machines that far surpass human-level technology and give every appearance of having been designed, and yet those very same Temple of Darwin fanatics turn around and try to convince us that it’s all just an illusion created by Darwin’s brain-dead natural selection god.<<
That is just psychobabble.
Now, if you are saying TToE is flawed, what scientific theory do you have as a substitute that does not depend on supernatural intervention?
If you don’t have one then you are just posting funny things like Bat Boy (who has been asking about you and wondering why you don’t visit).
Put up or shut up.
“Reactivate”...LOL! I’m amazed how many Temple of Darwin fanatics are completely unaware of their unscientific evo-religious assumptions. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
As in the days of Noah...
Temple of Darwin?
What are you talking about? This is basic wetlab genetics.
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