Posted on 06/25/2007 8:51:04 PM PDT by anymouse
Composite photography when we have DNA?????
You have got to be kidding!
Have you ever studied Neanderthals, or evolution? Or forensics?
DNA is pretty good evidence, while things like you suggest are so subjective they are pretty much useless last resorts.
My biggest reason however is the the third one ....whether the Earth was created 6,000 years ago (as some say), or 10,000 years ago (as some Young Earth Creationists pushed back the 6K date when it didn't match with some discoveries that were older than 6K yrs), or eons ago (my personal belief) doesn't matter much. As a Christian what i adhere to is a personal belief in Christ and relationship with him. To me that is what matters ....not whether Adam walked with T-rex (which is just plain dumb .....particularly when i heard that one of the Creationist museums claimed that the reason T-rex had sharp teeth in a perfect world was so that it could eat fruit better!!!! Or the fact that some years back there was an expedition by some Young Earthers to Lake Tele in the Congo to investigate claims of some sort of Loch Ness type lake monster - read 'dinosaur' - that lived there ....in a bid to show that if 'dinosaurs' still exist today then science is wrong on other things too). To me all that is nonsense ....here are far more important things.
Oh, and they never did get any real evidence of that Lake Tele monster. Guess Loch Ness in Scotland is always open for 'research.'
;^)
THe photo idea is just a starting point. Naturally I’d like to see the same thing attempted with DNA fragments of current living humans.
I just hope the cave bear doesn’t eat the cave man.
I dont think they intend to make a neanderthal. They just want to sequence its DNA (and that of mammoth et al). This is a lab job with lots of pipettes and mini test tubes and gel electrophoresis. The aim is to determine relationships between species.
I think its going to be very difficult to do. DNA of hominid species is very, very similar anyway - it’s going to be hard, especially with samples that may be damaged, to get definite genetic markers.
“Neanderthals did not breed with cromagnon man. Our DNA doesnt match Neanderthals DNA. Chimps do not breed with monkeys, or gorillas. So why would Neanderthals breed with Cromagnon man?”
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Well, no-one knows if Neanderthal man was a separate species or just a sub race, and no-one knows how closely related our DNA and theirs is. That’s sort of what they are trying to find out here...
Horses can breed with donkeys -- you end up with an infertile mule. Perhaps they could breed, but with infertile offspring.
Are We Not Men???
(we are devo)
Are We Not Men!?!
(dee-ee-vee-oh)
Ungh!
Me barbarian!
I suppose they would need to create the DNA before they would feel a need to reconcile anything, if I understood what you were asking. I am not sure the reconstruction is an actual one and perhaps it will be in the form of a computer model?
I really don’t know why they feel they need to go to all this trouble. Mr. Fairview already exists; they could just study him. I promise you, there’s very little difference between Mr. Fairview and other Neanderthals except frequency of showers.
This is excellent news! Since some scientists seem hellbent on recreating dinosaurs from DNA, it’s only appropriate that we also have cavemen around who know how to deal with them.
BACK TO THE FUTURE! sez I
I was thinking more on the line of the images I remember of Barbara Bach in a fur bikini. Now that was a cave person.
Likewise, scientific belief does not constitute a religion, or faith, unto itself
John Kerry, paging Senator John Kerry ...
Rabbi Isaac of Acco remarkably calculated the universe’s age as 15 billion years old, in the 13th century. It’s only (some) Christians who seem to have a problem with an old universe/old earth.
doesnt literalism drive you nuts
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