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Coragyps
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Message 234 of 305 (396995)
04-23-2007 8:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 231 by Fosdick
04-23-2007 8:02 PM

Re: Panspermia is another of those Non-Answers like Goddidit
Shouldn't the egg be simpler to explain than the chicken?
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Perhaps, if they're both in the coop to look at. But this egg hatched quite a while ago in a coop very unlike the ones we have today.
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04-24-2007 2:42 PM 		Reply to: Message 249 by Fosdick
04-24-2007 1:41 PM

Re: And the principles are...?
you are the one who thinks genes are just collections of chemicals.
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What the heck else could genes be? Some variant on The Force? Eleventh-dimensional pixies? They're chains of nucleotides, Hoot. Chemicals!
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04-24-2007 3:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 253 by Fosdick
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Re: And the principles are...?
Some chemicals! Come on, you chemists, give me the chemical principles for that.
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Maybe you should try a high-school biology text. Or ask Dr Dawkins if he thinks there's something in DNA othere than purines, pyrimidines, deoxyribose, and phosphate.
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04-25-2007 8:40 PM 		Reply to: Message 284 by Fosdick
04-25-2007 7:57 PM

Re: The chemical v. code test
You won't change the chemical at all”it's still DNA with every one of its nucleotides present and accounted for...
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You're making the mistake here of thinking that isomers of the same chemical should act the same. They don't at all. Benzene, 2,4-hexadiyne, and 1,5-hexadiyne each have six carbons and six hydrogens, but are very distinct chemically. Two DNAs with differenr ordering of the same bases are just as different as two proteins with different ordering of the same amino acids - and that can be VERY different.
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