How evolution shapes the geometries of life

Science Daily ^ | 17 FEB 2014 | University of Maryland Team

[onedoug]

Why does a mouse's heart beat about the same number of times in its lifetime as an elephant's, although the mouse lives about a year, while an elephant sees 70 winters come and go? Why do small plants and animals mature faster than large ones? Why has nature chosen such radically different forms as the loose-limbed beauty of a flowering tree and the fearful symmetry of a tiger?

These questions have puzzled life scientists since ancient times. Now an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Padua in Italy propose a thought-provoking answer based on a famous mathematical formula that has been accepted as true for generations, but never fully understood. In a paper published the week of Feb. 17, 2014 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team offers a re-thinking of the formula known as Kleiber's Law. Seeing this formula as a mathematical expression of an evolutionary fact, the team suggests that plants' and animals' widely different forms evolved in parallel, as ideal ways to solve the problem of how to use energy efficiently.

[catnipman]

"Nature" is mindless and makes nothing but messes. Life on Earth was no bizarre accident with odds having more zeros in them than grans of sand in the Sahara. Life on Earth was MADE by an intelligence higher than our own. Period. We are no more an accident than is the Internet, the manned moon spacecraft, geosynchronous satellites, fiber optic transmission, the i7 CPU chip, the PC, Linux or Windows, the automobile, the AC grid, the Hoover Dam and a million other things. None of those happened by sheer accident, and neither did we.

Here's a more accurate perspective for our limited lifespan. The facts of life: "You were made as well as we could make you."

Eldon Tyrell Explains the Facts of Life To Roy Batty

[PATRIOT1876]

*mathematical expression of an evolutionary fact
Mathematical expression of an evolutionary theory. *

The odds against abiogenesis are 1 in 10 to the 100.000th power.

There's some math for the evolutionists.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The Theory of Evolution has nothing whatsoever to say about abiogenesis. A lot of self-professed evolutionists don't know that. If you're going to argue with them, you should.

[Texas Songwriter]

This tripe is an explanation in search of the facts………and a piss-poor explanation at that. The beginning point is….first, there is no God…..NOw, let us begin to confabulate.

[onedoug]

Though I believe in God, having posted the darn thing.

Heck, M-Theory seems compatible with Einstein who we know was right ‘cause of Trinity. If M-Theory is realistic, it would seem to add new meaning to “eternal life”, both in the real plane and through God.

But only God is God. Though He has still made speculation in and about His universe fun.