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Genetics: Why Prince Charles is so wrong
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| 1/28/2003
| Richard Dawkins
Posted on 02/01/2003 9:01:09 PM PST by gore3000
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02/01/2003 9:01:09 PM PST
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gore3000
To: *crevo_list; Ahban; Sabertooth; AndrewC; Alamo-Girl; Phaedrus; f.Christian; CalConservative
While evolutionists claim intelligent design is false, here we have Dawkins, the primary evolutionist of the day admitting that organisms function just like intelligently designed computers!
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:07:04 PM PST
by
gore3000
(Evolution is whatever lie you want it to be!)
To: gore3000
Well, congrats then, you won.
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:08:19 PM PST
by
Lev
To: gore3000
Nifty observation.
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:09:20 PM PST
by
the_doc
To: PatrickHenry; Junior; Physicist; Nebullis; VadeRetro; donh; jennyp
Just to be fair to both sides.
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02/01/2003 9:09:58 PM PST
by
gore3000
(Evolution is whatever lie you want it to be!)
To: gore3000
If Chuck was interested in good genetics, he'd have never dumped Diana for that harridan, Camilla.
To: gore3000
Then why is it that people who undergo organ transplants need anti-rejection medication?
To: gore3000
Dawkins is deficient when he discusses within in his own field so it is no surprise that he is supremely deficient when he meanders afield.
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:12:14 PM PST
by
AndrewC
(Death selects everyone.)
To: fellowpatriot
Then why is it that people who undergo organ transplants need anti-rejection medication?Good question. Our bodies are designed to recognize foreign intruders. The system is very specific to our own bodies, that's why to mitigate it it is often necessary to use organs from a family member with almost the same genetic structure. Otherwise it is necessary to use drugs to defeat the immune system which of course usually leads to great complications.
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:22:41 PM PST
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gore3000
(Evolution is whatever lie you want it to be!)
To: gore3000
Dawkins is a moral idiot, not unlike Bertrand Russell before him.
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:23:28 PM PST
by
Cicero
To: gore3000
As a programmer, I say this: kludge! There are many sections of DNA in your chromosones that don't do anything, many that don't work well, many that are crude adaptations of things that evolved for some other purpose. Face it, you're full of more bugs than MS Windows. It's amazing anything works, that people live long enough to reproduce. This is only because half the computering power of your genes is devoted to error correction.
To: Sabertooth
If Chuck was interested in good genetics, he'd have never dumped Diana for that harridan, Camilla. I dunno. Are good genetics exactly equivalent to physical appearance?
What if that absolutely drop-dead gorgeous blonde is a hemophiliac (i.e. quite likely to die in child-birth without major medical intervention)?
What if she's color-blind to boot (hint: your sons are guaranteed to be colorblind, and vulnerable driving in locales with eccentric/horizontal-positioning approaches to stoplight placement)?
What if she is... er... "blonde"? Is it better genetics to be beautiful than intelligent? Beautiful than resistant (to diseases)?
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02/01/2003 9:32:09 PM PST
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Eala
To: Eala
"What if that absolutely drop-dead gorgeous blonde is a hemophiliac (i.e. quite likely to die in child-birth without major medical intervention)? "
And all this time I thought only males were hemophiliacs.
To: gore3000
The dangers of Prince Charles and genetics.
To: berkeleybeej
And all this time I thought only males were hemophiliacs. Um. Okay. In this specific case possibly you're right, I don't know. I've encountered sufficient number of problems that are *prevalent* in males that I've come to consider that a default for a number of problems.
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02/01/2003 9:48:19 PM PST
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Eala
To: Eala
Living long enough to reproduce is apparently the only determinating factor.
To: Eala
Hemophilia is generally due to a gene carried on the X chromosome. Thus women are carriers (as in some forms of color blindness) but men get the diseases.
Men with hemophilia can pass the gene to their daughters but not to their sons.
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posted on
02/01/2003 9:51:19 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Every minute a man dies and one and one-sixteenth is born.)
To: proxy_user
There are many sections of DNA in your chromosones that don't do anything,I would not say that. I think it is more proper to say that there are large sections of DNA about which we do not know what they do. Just about 2-3 years ago with the completion of the genome project, we found that only 5% of our DNA was used in genes. We have been discovering since what that DNA does. Some of it was some DNA that was repeated all over the genome and was thought to be totally useless. Well, it turned out that all that DNA, some 10% of the total, does have a use. It is used as a zipper that separates a cell when it replicates. We have known about genes for some 50 years and we still are not sure that we have found all of them. DNA is very intricate code and it will take decades to figure what all of it does.
As to bugs - well human systems work for 70+ years without getting a blue screen of death!
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02/01/2003 10:10:13 PM PST
by
gore3000
(Evolution is whatever lie you want it to be!)
To: Cicero
Dawkins is a moral idiot, not unlike Bertrand Russell before him.What else would one expect from a virulent atheist? Anyways, his idiocy is not confined to morals!
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02/01/2003 10:11:59 PM PST
by
gore3000
(Evolution is whatever lie you want it to be!)
To: Eala
I've encountered sufficient number of problems that are *prevalent* in males that I've come to consider that a default for a number of problems. Hey! I resent resemble that remark...
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