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PaulK
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Message 151 of 252 (814741)
07-12-2017 1:03 PM
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07-12-2017 12:51 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
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The sensible reason to believe it is that it would benefit you greatly if you did.
You say that but you offer no reason to think that there is any real benefit. And believing things in the hope of benefit is hardly a good way to find the truth.

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Message 152 of 252 (814743)
07-12-2017 1:08 PM
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07-12-2017 1:03 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
Uh huh. Well, if you can't see it you can't see it.

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Message 153 of 252 (814745)
07-12-2017 1:18 PM
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07-12-2017 12:00 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
Faith writes:
Sorry, you are wrong. As I keep saying, the ability to believe the Bible is the word of God is a supernatural gift from God that overrides the fallen intellect.
So claims a fallen human. By your own criteria you can't believe any such thing.

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Message 154 of 252 (814747)
07-12-2017 1:20 PM
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07-12-2017 1:08 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
Maybe you find it a benefit to see distorting and twisting the Bible as suoernatural insight - but I don't think that it is good for anything more than your pride.
Add in your notably poor judgement in general and your frequent errors and I have to say I am better off as I am. Even if Christianity turned out to be true.

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Message 155 of 252 (814749)
07-12-2017 1:36 PM
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07-12-2017 1:18 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
Being regenerated, born again, means to have your spiritual faculty "quickened" as the KJV puts it, or brought to life, the spiritual faculty that was lost to Adam and Eve at the Fall. That's the connection to the things of God that the fallen nature lacks. It makes possible the faith that saves and the faith that recognizes God's word. We're going to drag around the fallen flesh to death nevertheless, but we do have this regenerated spirit that unbelievers don't have.

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Message 156 of 252 (814756)
07-12-2017 2:55 PM
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07-12-2017 1:36 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
Faith writes:
Being regenerated, born again, means to have your spiritual faculty "quickened" as the KJV puts it, or brought to life, the spiritual faculty that was lost to Adam and Eve at the Fall. That's the connection to the things of God that the fallen nature lacks. It makes possible the faith that saves and the faith that recognizes God's word. We're going to drag around the fallen flesh to death nevertheless, but we do have this regenerated spirit that unbelievers don't have.
Those are the claims of a fallen human who, by your own criteria, can't be believed.

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Message 157 of 252 (814760)
07-12-2017 3:06 PM
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07-12-2017 12:00 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
Faith writes:
As I keep saying, the ability to believe the Bible is the word of God is a supernatural gift from God that overrides the fallen intellect.
But of course the intellect is not "fallen". Adam and Eve gained the ability to discern good from evil and true from false.
So there is nothing to be overridden.

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Message 158 of 252 (814764)
07-12-2017 3:45 PM
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07-12-2017 1:00 PM


Re: Science means knowledge, period.
That's your fallible opinion.

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Message 159 of 252 (814830)
07-13-2017 6:55 AM


talk about off topic talk ...
discussing anything bible is not the topic. See Message 1:
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For creationists who claim that microevolution and macroevolution are two different things, here is a simple challenge:
Show us a single genetic difference between the human and chimp genome that could not have been produced by known microevolutionary processes in either the chimp or human lineages.
Just for clarity, I am defining a microevolutionary change as a single mutational event (e.g. base substitution, insertion, deletion, transposon insertion, retroviral insertion, or genetic recombination) that is passed on to descendants.
This is a simple request, based on actual empirical evidence and asking for actual empirical evidence.
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Message 160 of 252 (815821)
07-24-2017 7:24 PM
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07-13-2017 6:55 AM


Re: talk about off topic talk ...
You can always make up an evolutionary fairy tale to "explain" anything, particularly if you ignore real world constraints such time to fixity, and define microevolution broadly enough.
Since it includes included deletion as microevolution without any constraints as to size and rate then as I have said you can simply assume a common ancestor with hundreds of extra genes that got deleted in one or the other line leading to humans or chimps. There you are, all the non-homologous genes explained by microevolution. And the challenge is to show only a single change without considering concurrent changes..
Taq has set up the "challenge" up so that it can't fail. As such it is not worth the effort to attempt to meet it.
{Edit: Let me rephrase that, Taq has set up the "challenge" up so that it is no win. }
How about I propose an alternative?
Show that ALL of the genetic differences between humans and chimps could have been produced by microevolutionary processes within 10 million years using reasonable population sizes, mutation rates, generation times, and assuming that all the non-homologous genes have appeared since separation. Fitness effect of each change must be considered.
I would accept a gene duplication as a single evolutionary event
Explanation must include fusion of chromosome 2, differences between the human and chimp Y chromosome, and the loss or gain of a baculum.
Edited by CRR, : as marked

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Message 161 of 252 (815857)
07-25-2017 1:25 PM
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07-24-2017 7:24 PM


Re: talk about off topic talk ...
CRR writes:
You can always make up an evolutionary fairy tale to "explain" anything, particularly if you ignore real world constraints such time to fixity, and define microevolution broadly enough.
Again, you are projecting. You are the one who believes a supernatural deity magically poofed the universe into being, along with the Earth and life. You believe in a myth with talking snakes and magical trees. We are proposing natural mechanisms for natural phenomenon which is not a fairy tale.
Since it includes included deletion as microevolution without any constraints as to size and rate then as I have said you can simply assume a common ancestor with hundreds of extra genes that got deleted in one or the other line leading to humans or chimps. There you are, all the non-homologous genes explained by microevolution. And the challenge is to show only a single change without considering concurrent changes..
You haven't demonstrated that the new genes in the human lineage lack homologous sequence in the chimp genome.
And the challenge is to show only a single change without considering concurrent changes..
Which differences are you claiming could not be achieved by microevolutionary events? If you can't point to one, then you have failed to meet the challenge.

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Message 162 of 252 (815970)
07-27-2017 7:42 AM
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07-25-2017 1:25 PM


Re: talk about off topic talk ...
I have no intention of trying to meet a no win challenge such as you have set up.
You might like to accept my challenge Message 1

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Message 163 of 252 (815971)
07-27-2017 8:09 AM
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07-25-2017 1:25 PM


Re: talk about off topic talk ...
You haven't demonstrated that the new genes in the human lineage lack homologous sequence in the chimp genome.
By golly I haven't!
I guess I just took the word of geneticists on that one, such as Author Summary For the past 20 years scientists have puzzled over a strange-yet-ubiquitous genomic phenomenon; in every genome there are sets of genes which are unique to that particular species i.e. lacking homologues in any other species. How have these genes originated? The advent of massively parallel RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) has provided new clues to this question, with the discovery of an unexpectedly high number of transcripts that do not correspond to typical protein-coding genes, and which could serve as a substrate for this process. Here we have examined RNA-Seq data from 8 mammalian species in order to define a set of putative newly-born genes in human and chimpanzee and investigate what drives their expression. This is the largest-scale project to date that tries to address this scientific question. We have found thousands of transcripts that are human and/or chimpanzee-specific and which are likely to have originated de novo from previously non-transcribed regions of the genome. We have observed an enrichment in transcription factor binding sites in the promoter regions of these genes when compared to other species; this is consistent with the idea that the gain of new regulatory motifs results in de novo gene expression. We also show that some of the genes encode new functional proteins expressed in brain or testis, which may have contributed to phenotypic novelties in human evolution. where the authors claim to have identified 634 human-specific genes and 780 chimpanzee-specific genes.
The more readable version is in Scientific American here
Of course the exact number is likely to change over time and I think some older sources report lower numbers.

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Message 164 of 252 (815975)
07-27-2017 10:41 AM
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07-27-2017 7:42 AM


Re: talk about off topic talk ...
CRR writes:
I have no intention of trying to meet a no win challenge such as you have set up.
It was less a challenge and more just trying to settle a question of definition. In essence, Message 1 asked how it was possible for microevolution and macroevolution to be two completely different things, given that the latter is nothing more than many of the former.
You might like to accept my challenge Message 1
I turned down your thread proposal.

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Taq
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Message 165 of 252 (815983)
07-27-2017 11:55 AM
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07-27-2017 7:42 AM


Re: talk about off topic talk ...
CRR writes:
I have no intention of trying to meet a no win challenge such as you have set up.
Then I will take this as your tacit admission that microevolution does add up to macroevolution.

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