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Message 16 of 67 (808120)
05-08-2017 1:28 PM
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05-08-2017 1:25 PM


Faith writes:
I don't think you understand one thing about what creationists are trying to do.
We apparently know what the creationists are not doing, namely they are not producing a scientific model in the field of biology.
It would appear that creationists' efforts are more about theologic purity than about facts and science.

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Message 17 of 67 (808121)
05-08-2017 1:29 PM
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05-08-2017 1:27 PM


Faith writes:
Do your victory dance. I'm out of here.
Thanks for proving our point.

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Message 18 of 67 (808122)
05-08-2017 1:30 PM
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05-08-2017 1:25 PM


I don't think you understand one thing about what creationists are trying to do.
Uhmm... trying to offer alternative explanations for biological facts that support their premise that evolution is wrong.
You find the approach foreign to your experience and if our different points of view are too different this isn't going to work.
So... not interested in real data. I see...
Thanks anyway.
HBD

Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.

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Message 19 of 67 (808125)
05-08-2017 1:36 PM
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05-08-2017 1:25 PM


What you are calling "analyses of data" comes from your own very different context HBD
You mean scientific training? Ok, sorry about that, I guess.
you are imposing conditions on creationists that are very likely irrelevant to what we are trying to do.
The question is: How do you explain the data? If you can't answer the question then fine, just do this:
Faith writes:
Forget it.
Do your victory dance. I'm out of here.
HBD

Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.

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Message 20 of 67 (808130)
05-08-2017 1:50 PM
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05-08-2017 1:36 PM


too bad because I would really like to see how this sort of discussion would go, but this is a set-up whether you mean it to be or not.

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Message 21 of 67 (808132)
05-08-2017 2:02 PM


Here's my laboratory experiment which I've mentioned before:
Collect a bunch of small creatures, small enough to let multiply in a lab but large enough to do DNA sampling on. Let them multiply, split them into new populations, let them multiply, keep doing this from each new population. Watch what happens to the genetic diversity.

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Message 22 of 67 (808141)
05-08-2017 2:39 PM
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05-08-2017 1:50 PM


Faith writes:
too bad because I would really like to see how this sort of discussion would go, but this is a set-up whether you mean it to be or not.
How is it a setup?

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Message 23 of 67 (808142)
05-08-2017 2:41 PM
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05-08-2017 2:02 PM


Faith writes:
Here's my laboratory experiment which I've mentioned before:
Collect a bunch of small creatures, small enough to let multiply in a lab but large enough to do DNA sampling on. Let them multiply, split them into new populations, let them multiply, keep doing this from each new population. Watch what happens to the genetic diversity.
The experiment for this thread is found in the opening post. Please address it.

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Message 24 of 67 (808154)
05-08-2017 3:39 PM
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05-08-2017 2:02 PM


Here's my laboratory experiment which I've mentioned before:
Collect a bunch of small creatures, small enough to let multiply in a lab but large enough to do DNA sampling on. Let them multiply, split them into new populations, let them multiply, keep doing this from each new population. Watch what happens to the genetic diversity.
There have been several, mostly with fruit flies (short generations, DNA easily extracted).
See fruit fly experiments dna diversity - Google Search
Browse at your leisure, but there have been significant changes to their DNA over the period they have been done
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Message 25 of 67 (808212)
05-09-2017 8:36 AM
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05-08-2017 1:36 PM


Looking at the data in Message 1, I have no tools (automated or otherwise) for its analysis. It would make no difference whether I was advocating the creationist or scientific position, I would be helpless. Perhaps it would be better if you presented your analysis, describing the patterns found and the implications. The rest of us can try to follow along.
I did try eyeballing the data and it seemed that species I is most distant from other species, and perhaps EFGH are more distant from ABCD, but I can't be sure.
--Percy

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Message 26 of 67 (808253)
05-09-2017 12:07 PM
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05-09-2017 8:36 AM


Percy writes:
Looking at the data in Message 1, I have no tools (automated or otherwise) for its analysis.
If you want to compare two of the protein sequences then you could use the Blastp alignment tool. You just copy and paste two of the protein sequences into the two boxes and hit the "BLAST" button towards the bottom. This is the result I got:
453 bits(1166) 1e-169 Compositional matrix adjust. 221/227(97%) 226/227(99%) 0/227(0%)

Query  1    MAYPFQLGFQDATSPIMEELSHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQE  60
            MAYPFQLGFQDATSPIMEEL HFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQE
Sbjct  1    MAYPFQLGFQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQE  60

Query  61   VETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTMGHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLSFDS  120
            VETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTMGHQWYWSYEYTDYEDL+FDS
Sbjct  61   VETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTMGHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDS  120

Query  121  YMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEVTIRVLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLN  180
            YMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPME+TIR+LISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLN
Sbjct  121  YMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTIRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLN  180

Query  181  QTTLMGTRPGLYYGRCSEICGSNHSFMPIVLELVPLSYFEKWSASML  227
            QTTLMGTRPGLYYG+CSEICGSNHSFMPIVLELVPL+YFEKWSASML
Sbjct  181  QTTLMGTRPGLYYGQCSEICGSNHSFMPIVLELVPLTYFEKWSASML  227
The 221/227 (97%) is the identity score, meaning that 221 out of 227 amino acids matched.
If HBD were to include the sequences in FASTA format it would make it easier to dump these sequences in batch into other online tools. He may already have the text file in FASTA format.

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Message 27 of 67 (808255)
05-09-2017 12:18 PM
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05-08-2017 2:02 PM


Collect a bunch of small creatures, small enough to let multiply in a lab but large enough to do DNA sampling on. Let them multiply, split them into new populations, let them multiply, keep doing this from each new population. Watch what happens to the genetic diversity.
It increases. No surprise there.

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Message 28 of 67 (808272)
05-09-2017 2:22 PM
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05-09-2017 8:36 AM


General clarification of my preliminary point
Perhaps it would be better if you presented your analysis, describing the patterns found and the implications.
I plan to do that, but I wanted to make an important point before I presented my analysis. Perhaps I should take this opportunity to make my preliminary point(s) absolutely clear before moving on.
In order to analyze biological data there are 2 major requirements.
1) You must have an appropriate model.
Without a model you would have no context with which to even begin describing a set of data. CRR's point on another thread that biological problems can be solved with common sense and dredge's point that eliminating Darwinian evolution from biology would not make a bit of difference to understanding biological data are absolutely NOT appropriate models. Faith has the closest thing to a model, but if it can't be applied, it is not really useful. If these ARE appropriate models, they should be able to apply them to the data at hand.
2) You must have appropriate tools.
As you can see, even this simple data set is quite difficult to analyze and we are only dealing with 9 taxa and a protein that is only 227-aa in length. I even ordered the list of taxa so the pattern would be fairly obvious. Imagine a data set that consists of 30 taxa and a set of 5 genes that are each 700-800bp in length (~1250 amino acids after translation). The tools to analyze a data set like this were developed by evolutionary biologists based on an evolutionary model. The tools creationists use to analyze data seem to be limited to intuition and looking at things. Not too effective on real data.
The rest of us can try to follow along.
I will try to work through this step by step and will be adding taxa to further expand on not just how to do this type of analysis, but how evolutionary theory explains the patterns we see in genetic data. The hardest part will be getting things into a format that can be easily visualized on a website like this.
It would make no difference whether I was advocating the creationist or scientific position, I would be helpless.<...> I did try eyeballing the data and it seemed that species I is most distant from other species, and perhaps EFGH are more distant from ABCD, but I can't be sure.
Well... you have shown that you are not helpless in your approach this data. You apparently used a model that implies that organisms that are more similar genetically are more closely related. That is the most basic evolutionary principal and of course creationists can say that principal is consistent with their "model" as well. But as we expand this data set, the differences in models will become more and more apparent.
HBD

Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.

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Message 29 of 67 (808277)
05-09-2017 2:57 PM
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05-09-2017 12:07 PM


Resources
I do have these in FASTA format. I presented it in interleaved format to make it easier to compare the taxa visually. I could also provide accession numbers, which would be easier than dealing with a whole FASTA file. If anyone is interested, let me know.
If anyone is interested in doing this for themselves, the software is available as free downloads.
For alignment and preliminary trees, I like to use Mega6. As I retrieved the url for the download, I saw they have a new version, Mega7, and I will upgrade to that soon.
For analyzing sequences and tree construction, I like PAUP4.0. Current build is 4.0a152. This is a time-expiring version, but it can be renewed after expiring.
I am hoping to use Mesquite for inferring ancestral character states. Current version is 3.20.
Data is available from NCBI database which includes a nucleotide database, protein database and BLAST tools (blast allows searching for similar or homologous sequences).
**Taq linked to the protein blast function at NCBI that allows comparisons.
HBD

Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.

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Message 30 of 67 (808285)
05-09-2017 3:46 PM
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Re: Resources
Here is the data in FASTA format:
>A
MAYPFQLGFQDATSPIMEELSHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLSFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEVTIRVLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMGTRPGLYYGRCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLELVPLSYFEKWSASML

>B
MAYPFQLGFQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTIRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMGTRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLELVPLTYFEKWSASML

>C
MAYPLQLGFQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINSPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTIRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMGTRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLELVPLAYFEKWSASML

>D
MAYPFQLGFQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETIWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLSFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTIRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMGTRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLELVPLVYFEKWSASML

>E
MAYPFQLGLQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIITLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETVWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTVRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMAMRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLEMVPLSYFETWSAVMV

>F
MAYPFQLGLQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETVWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTIRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMAMRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLEMVPLSYFETWSALMV

>G
MAYPFQLGLQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISSMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETVWTILPAIILILIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVILPMEMTVRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMAMRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLEMVPLSYFETWSALMV

>H
MAYPFQLGLQDATSPIMEELLHFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIISLMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETVWTILPAIILVLIALPSLRILYMMDEINNPSLTVKTM
GHQWYWSYEYTDYEDLNFDSYMIPTQELKPGELRLLEVDNRVVLPMEMTVRMLISSEDVLHSWAVPSLGLKTDAIPGRLNQTTLMAMRPGLYYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLEMVPLSYFETWSALMV

>I
MPYPMQLGFQDATSPIMEELMYFHDHTLMIVFLISSLVLYIIILMLTTKLTHTSTMDAQEVETIWTILPAVILILIALPSLRILYMMDEIYNPYLTVKAM
GHQWYWSYEFTDYENLMFDSYMIPTKDLSPGQLRLLEVDNRIVLPMELPIRMLISSEDVLHAWTMPSLGLKADAIPGRLNQITLTSSRPGVFYGQCSEIC
GSNHSFMPIVLEMASLKYFEKWSSMMQ
You can copy the entire section and then paste it into the window at Kalign if you don't like the idea of downloading random executables on the internet. Kalign has some simple phylogenetic analysis tools as well as simple comparisons between sequences. This is the % identity matrix for comparisons between all sequences:
#
#
#  Percent Identity  Matrix - created by Clustal2.1
#
#

     1: A           100.00   97.36   96.48   97.80   93.39   94.27   92.95   93.39   83.26
     2: B            97.36  100.00   98.68   99.12   95.15   96.04   94.71   95.15   84.14
     3: C            96.48   98.68  100.00   98.24   94.27   95.15   93.83   94.27   83.70
     4: D            97.80   99.12   98.24  100.00   94.71   95.59   94.27   94.71   84.14
     5: E            93.39   95.15   94.27   94.71  100.00   98.68   98.24   98.68   82.82
     6: F            94.27   96.04   95.15   95.59   98.68  100.00   98.68   99.12   83.26
     7: G            92.95   94.71   93.83   94.27   98.24   98.68  100.00   98.68   81.94
     8: H            93.39   95.15   94.27   94.71   98.68   99.12   98.68  100.00   82.38
     9: I            83.26   84.14   83.70   84.14   82.82   83.26   81.94   82.38  100.00

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