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To: Wakeup Sleeper
I havent been caught in any error your just trying to make it look so. Your gene pool is your gene pool that has been passed on to you, you can only get what you were given, thats all I can say to you. And what Ive said is fact I know and so do you! You got genes from your dad you got genes from your mom, and those are the genes that you have in ther combos, and that all you can pass on. PLain and simple. Nothing more can be said to you I guess, so you can quit trying to make it look like Im in error cause you know what Im saying. And so will most people when they look it up for themselves, they will see the truth if there being honest with their search. No Errors just simple facts! Peace!

You have been defending a significant error, repeated in many of your recent posts. This error is the following:

To put it simply there is NO adding to the genetic code!!!!

I have posted examples of where this is incorrect, and cited websites showing you to be incorrect.

The mutations for lactose tolerance (which occurred differently in different parts of the world) are additions to the genetic code--they are mutations that did not previously exist.

The original humans, coming out of Africa, would have had dark skin and eyes. The mutations leading to light skin and blue eyes in northern Europe represent additions to the genetic code--mutations that did not previously exist.

There are a lot more examples. You could see them if you would just look around you and see the world as it is. Instead, you look at the world and try to make it conform to your belief system, though the evidence shows otherwise.

You seem unwilling to accept what scientists have learned about the real world, but your denial of reality does not alter that reality. Mutations occur whether you accept them or not. You just make yourself and the position you are defending look silly.

Are you familiar with the following quotation? It really does apply.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the heavens, and the other elements of the world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and the moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to be certain from reason and experience. Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and they hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make confident assertions [quoting 1Ti. 1:7].

St. Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, 1:42-43.


233 posted on 03/01/2007 6:31:17 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
You said,
The original humans, coming out of Africa, would have had dark skin and eyes. The mutations leading to light skin and blue eyes in northern Europe represent additions to the genetic code--mutations that did not previously exist.


Sorry this is not an example of mutations to the code. This is an example of isolation of a population from a larger gene pool. As a population lives longer without outside information the pool becomes more alike the traits become more pronounced.

As with America we have a large gene pool and therefore we do not have lots of people with the racial traits.

Now I know I did not explain that scientifically enough but it it correct.

As to lactose intolerance that is an assumption on your part. The gene has alway been there it is now becoming more identified because of the amount of people with it continue to have children an therefore some will start to show the signs.
235 posted on 03/01/2007 8:17:29 PM PST by Creationist ( Evolution=alternative to believing in God to justify their moral shortfalls and animal behavior)
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To: Coyoteman
I would also like to add this is evolution trying to break away from the original racist form it has and had, by now claiming all humans came from Africa.

But do you not find it strange that Africans still have brown skin, and Asians have a lighter skin with different facial features, and Europeans are whiter with different facial features.

Not to mention the body differences. Yet true to the Bible we all have the same types of blood, and can reproduce with each other. Hmm
236 posted on 03/01/2007 8:25:05 PM PST by Creationist ( Evolution=alternative to believing in God to justify their moral shortfalls and animal behavior)
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