crazy christians: jesus changes your dna when you accept him.

This is a very good approach to the matter. It explains my feelings exactly.

Quote from luxor:

Actually Darwin was hardly original in believing all things evolved or were related. Even some of the ancient Greek philosophers understood that. Darwin's contribution was to outline a mechanism for evolution-- evolution through natural selection of random mutations.

This form of evolution (microevolution) has been observed in moth coloring and bacteria resistance and the like, but its another thing entirely to posit that this type of evolution could lead to the development of, for example, major complex structures like the eye (whether its a simple light-detecting cell or the human eye) or a wing or even a feather. Even the development of resistance to antibiotics in bacteria is nor really "evolution" because the mutations that make this happen are actually a corruption of the bacteria's proteins...antibiotic molecules can no longer bind to the mutant proteins to shut them down.

Single colonies of bacteria has been continuously observed in the laboratory for almost 50 years now. Bacteria reproduce every 20 minutes, so that's over a million generations now. They are still very happy to remain bacteria. If the goal of life is to the survival of the gene pool, there's nothing better than being a single-celled prokaryotic bacteria--there should be no selective pressure to grow larger and more complex.

Even in an infinitely old universe, the mind reels to imagine that complex biochemical processes and accompanying superstructures could blindly develop without some type of external guidance or design.
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Ahh, this was the thread that brought epigenetics to my attention. That hypothesis, if it proves true, has big implications for social justice.
 
Quote from Big Kahuna:

This is a very good approach to the matter. It explains my feelings exactly.
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Yes, feelings are delightful in the absence of knowledge, eh?
 
Quote from Lucrum:

Is that chart for real? Cause it's fucking hilarious if it is.
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Are you for real? Look at the source on the top left corner. On the plus side, I can now understand how you arrive at your steadfast scientific conclusions.
 
Quote from rcn10ec:

Indeed we can, FT!

So... couple of questions.

1)If you have, let's say, a pet parakeet/chicken/other bird...
what part of it's DNA shows it evolved from reptiles? =birds evolved from dinosaurs

2)If you have had your DNA tested lately...
what breed of ape/monkey did it show your family evolved from? =man evolved from monkeys

I'm serious.

(Not implying that I'm in agreement with the preacher.)
(However, there absolutely will be a spiritual change if you TRULY accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.)

2 Corinthians 5:15-17..."He (Jesus Christ) died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away, the new things have come."
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Since not much dino dna exists, it's hard to show; but you might like this finding:

"An adolescent female Tyrannosaurus rex died 68 million years ago, but its bones still contain intact soft tissue, including the oldest preserved proteins ever found, scientists say. And a comparison of the protein’s chemical structure to a slew of other species showed an evolutionary link between T. rex and chickens, bolstering the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs . . . A comparison by Asara’s team of the amino-acid sequence from the T. rex collagen to a database of existing sequences from modern species showed it shared a remarkable similarity to that of chickens."

http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/04/15/new-dna-evidence-ties-dinosaurs-to-modern-birds/

Your comment about chimps being human ancestors shows a lack of understanding as evolution shows humans are NOT descended from chimps.

Seneca
 
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