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Re: Support for a 'young' earth.
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Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:23:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Markus Wolf writes:
> You know what I always wondered Tim? Have you ever seen the chromosome
> numbers on the DNA of different species? There is no (apparent)
> relationship of chromosome numbers to the complexity of make up of animals.
> That means that through evolution, those numbers changed millions of times.
> Yet, with just one missing or additional chromosome in a human being,
> children have birth defects. (Some pretty major)
So therefore chromosomal change never happens? Is that the point?
> I always wondered about those fish evolving legs. Is there a place between
> fin and leg where you're not good at swimming and you're worse at walking?
Maybe. Seals seem to do okay though.
> Doesn't a fin become a bad fin long before it becomes a good leg?
Could be an okay fin and a really ordinary leg first. Ever heard of lungfish?
> If so, how did those mutant critters survive?
If there wasn't anything else on land to eat them, they probably had a great
time.
> And how many evolutional oopses did it take before it happened?
Does it matter? How many Christians died before the Bible became widely
acccepted as the word of God?
> And regarding the destruction of the dinosaurs and the rising of the
> mammals. We were told in school that it was probably a big ole meteor(ite?)
> that did it. And the itsy bitsy mammals survived and the terrible lizards
> died because of all that dust. But weren't there some itsy bitsy dinosaurs
> that were smaller than some of the big ole mammals? I still don't get it
> why little mammals could breathe that yucky air and feel pretty good about
> it. I bet they stayed in their non-dusty holes. Do mammals have better
> lungs than reptiles? They must, since they have smaller lung capacity.
Maybe what they told you in school was wrong. Maybe dinosaurs were wiped out
by a virus. Maybe all sorts of things. I don't understand your point, please
explain it more clearly.
> I always thought that if we're all here by a series of accidents and we vary
> from the amoeba only in the complexity of our makeup, than the most
> righteous person would be the person who kills the most people, since even
> the most environmentally conscious American (besides maybe the amish) has
> done more to destroy natural habitats than any other species just by driving
> cars and chewing gum (since you can't recycle the foil from gum wrappers)
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> Or maybe the highest form of morality is the person who can control
> everything and everyone around them and live the longest and be the most
> comfortable, since survival of the fittest is the powerful force that has
> shaped us all. There would have to be a blatant disregard for the
> environment as long as it didn't interfere with me or mine.
These are some interesting points, although I disagree with your
conclusions. I'm not sure what they have to do with the age of the earth though.
> I must confess that despite lots of big words that scientists can use and
> lots of important names that smart people can name, I still think Planet of
> the Apes was a pretty unrealistic movie.
The costumes sucked, sure. But why was it so unrealistic?
> Junk science.
Like creationism you mean?
--DaveL
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| (...) No, I think Downs Syndrome is a case of such chromosomal changes. I just want to know why critters that look so much alike outwardly are so genetically different and how they got to be that way. I wish I had the charts that I found in my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| You know what I always wondered Tim? Have you ever seen the chromosome numbers on the DNA of different species? There is no (apparent) relationship of chromosome numbers to the complexity of make up of animals. That means that through evolution, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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