Scientists Analyze Chromosomes 2 and 4: Discover Largest "Gene Deserts"

National Human Genome Research Institute ^ | 06 April 2005 | Staff

[GoLightly]

Creationism is knowing when not to look.

What happened to, Everybody be nice.?

[killermosquito]

If we evolved from apes why are there still apes?

[Talking_Mouse]

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the Pope is infallible (I'm more likely to agree with you that he is just a man, but a special sort of man).

Sorry to disagree with you but the Pope is not infallible at all times. He only speaks infallibly when speaking ex cathedra (from the chair). In the last century the Pope has only spoken infallibly twice. Neither of these times was he discussing evolution.

[Echo Talon]

Well I congratulate you for your chutzpah, but it can also be a form of self-induced blindness.

Blind from what? What's to gain from believing that I evolved from an ape? The only thing this "science" does is confuse people about their faith. Thats it. Am I going to go ask an ape for reparations... What? you tell me... Pretty idiotic to believe in nonsense, whose sole purpose is to undermine the church in the first place.
Read this especially the things about the Church and family

[El Gato]

For instance, if God were designing apes and men, it stands to reason that He would use many of the same materials.

Clearly He did so, but the mechanism of reuse is what's in contention.

[jennyp]

It seems from behind my keyboard that they write like evolution is a proven fact and to believe otherwise makes you "demon-possessed". If you are a new poster on this board you may not believe that, but that is the term they use to people who fail to interpret the evidence the way they think we should.

Now now, Ahban. No need to resort to lies. You're better than that.

[AndrewC]

bolding/underlining omission.

However, researchers suspect such regions are important to human biology because they have been conserved throughout the evolution of mammals and birds, and work is now underway to figure out their exact functions.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Talking_Mouse]

Interestingly enough, an evolutionary paradigm led to the wrong conclusions about the appendix and tonsils being vestigial.

I had always been told that they were vestigial. What is your evidence that they are not? I have not seen any (not that I have looked hard), so I am rather interested.

[jennyp]

There's a lot of "huh's" tonight.

<sigh> that's fer shure.

[El Gato]

Wonder what a tarsier looks like?

[AndrewC]

I had always been told that they were vestigial. What is your evidence that they are not?

Immune system

The immune system includes organs and tissues in which lymphocytes predominate as well as cells that circulate in peripheral blood. Lymphoid organs includes: lymph nodes and vessels, spleen, tonsils, adenoids, appendix, bone marrow, thymus, and intestinal lymphoid tissue. The bone marrow and thymus play a role in developing the primary cells of the immune system: B cells and T cells.

[jennyp]

If we evolved from apes why are there still apes?

If America was once part of England why is there still an England?

[freedumb2003]

Clearly your complete and total inability to grasp scientific evidence is on display for all to see.

I am sure you see electricity as magic and that when lightning strikes it is "God is Angry."

How you reconcile wireless connections is beyond me but I suspect it is something like "invisible angels move bits from place to place." I guess you pray to these invisible angels to keep your radio and TV connections going daily.

I am sure toilet flushing is beyond your ability to reckon. Just write it up to more magic.

[AndrewC]

If America was once part of England why is there still an England?

Because it was part of England.

[jennyp]

Wonder what a tarsier looks like?

Tarsiers are really cute, in their way. But they sorta look like what that mouse/human chimera would look like if they took that experiment too far!

[Ichneumon]

Blind from what? What's to gain from believing that I evolved from an ape?

Accuracy.

The only thing this "science" does is confuse people about their faith.

Ah... So you're going to turn your computer back in and communicate via smoke signals?

[El Gato]

I figured we'd lost the 'fling feces as a show of dominance' gene, but that was before I listened to Al Franken

Or the average corporate or governmental middle manager. Although the way I've most often heard their behavior described was as a P**ing contest, to see who could reach higher on the wall, and thus earn the favor of the Alpha above them. :)

[Echo Talon]

Clearly your complete and total inability to grasp scientific evidence is on display for all to see.

We must first determine what we are talking about when we use the terms "Science" and "Evolution"

I. Science. According to the Oxford Dictionary science is "A branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less colligated by being brought under general laws, and which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain."

For a postulate to qualify as a scientific theory is must fulfill three basic criteria.

1. The postulate must be observable.

2. The postulate must be capable of repeatable experimental verification.

3. The postulate must withstand a falsifiability test, or an experiment must be conceived the failure of which would disprove the postulate.

Neither evolution nor creation can meet the above three criteria and thus are not theories but postulates. In fact neither are fully capable of becoming theories because of the limits of observing events that happened many years in the past.

[El Gato]

I do not have a disagreement with the bible. Genesis is clear as day.

Which translation? They don't all agree in every detail and nuance.