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Author Topic:   What all can you find out from DNA anyway?
Tangle
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Message 4 of 28 (787725)
07-21-2016 5:43 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Faith
07-21-2016 2:03 AM


Re: Perhaps a good analogy
Careful Faith, if you go too far down this path you'll start to understand something you won't like.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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Tangle
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Message 15 of 28 (787791)
07-21-2016 7:23 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Faith
07-21-2016 5:34 PM


Re: Errors
Faith writes:
I object to the idea that they are normal events that make normal alleles, I object to the idea that they contribute anything genuine to genetic diversity and so on. But there's no reason I should object to their identification of people groups; in fact that's an unexpected benefit.
Careful, you're getting closer....

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.

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