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To: Fuzz

If the cause of the premature aging cannot be found, for example tying it to the length of the telomeres, then a statistical study can be performed to see if Dolly’s early demise was in the tail of the distribution, or very close to the expected value.

The reason is is “little publicized” is because it was an unexpected negative outcome that the cloning community is not real happy about. As a person of Faith I find it kind of funny that human science tried to pirate God’s code only to find out that their ultimate quest, immortality, will not be fulfilled.

My other assertion, which you did not react to, is totally unproven, but worthy of note. As the human genome becomes more and more known, I predict that the actual number of generations of man will be discovered in the genetic code. It will be similar to a software revision, a trivial piece of the DNA that keeps track of every time a haploid is formed, or when two come together. Then we will be able to evaluate how accurate the number of generations as described in the Sacred Scriptures are versus the modern explanations which assume that man has been on this Earth for hundreds of millions of years, which was what started this whole thread.


142 posted on 01/12/2014 10:31:09 PM PST by blackpacific
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To: blackpacific

“If the cause of the premature aging cannot be found, for example tying it to the length of the telomeres, then a statistical study can be performed to see if Dolly’s early demise was in the tail of the distribution, or very close to the expected value.”

Premature aging has not been established as an inevitable result of the process of cloning.

“The reason is is “little publicized” is because it was an unexpected negative outcome that the cloning community is not real happy about.”

Absolute nonsense.

“As a person of Faith I find it kind of funny that human science tried to pirate God’s code only to find out that their ultimate quest, immortality, will not be fulfilled.”

Multiple false premises render your statement meaningless.

“My other assertion, which you did not react to, is totally unproven, but worthy of note.”

Perhaps. Certainly whether or not something has been ‘proven’ has been no barrier for you in this interaction.

“As the human genome becomes more and more known, I predict that the actual number of generations of man will be discovered in the genetic code.”

I wouldn’t rule it out.

“It will be similar to a software revision, a trivial piece of the DNA that keeps track of every time a haploid is formed, or when two come together.”

Not an analogy or testable hypothesis I’d be comfortable proposing, but in a very general sense I guess it could be considered kind of like that.

“Then we will be able to evaluate how accurate the number of generations as described in the Sacred Scriptures are versus the modern explanations which assume that man has been on this Earth for hundreds of millions of years, which was what started this whole thread.”

So many things wrong with this sentence.

We already have enough evidence that shows the generations described in the bible are not accurate as an explanation for our history as a species.

These timelines are not ‘assumptions’, they are based on evidence, in multiple fields, all converging into one coherent explanation that is both testable and falsifiable. Each additional discovery is added to this knowledge compiling a more complete picture, none of which at this time supports explanations in any sacred text.

There is also no evidence that humans have been on “Earth for hundreds of millions of years” and the length of time they have been is not ‘assumed’.

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is, which in itself is not objectionable. What is objectionable is mis-representing scientific research to further a non-scientific belief.


143 posted on 01/13/2014 6:54:10 AM PST by Fuzz
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