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1 posted on 12/07/2005 5:47:34 PM PST by neverdem
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To: PatrickHenry

Evolution ping


2 posted on 12/07/2005 5:50:22 PM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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To: neverdem
Dr. Rose was able to create a long-lived line of creatures he called Methuselah flies

Thanks.

3 posted on 12/07/2005 5:51:13 PM PST by SouthTexas (A Merry and Blessed Christmas to all.)
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To: neverdem

"Recently, I was watching President Bush speak on the potential bird flu epidemic. Pandemic bird flu is exactly a question of evolutionary biology because grave danger will come only if the virus evolves into a form that can spread from human to human.

Of course, Bush couldn't use the word evolution. There were a few key points where I was waiting for him to use the word. Nope! The virus would "develop" the ability to move from.."


Yep, that would be a problem if the President accidentally used the word evolution - that would cost him politically.


4 posted on 12/07/2005 5:54:19 PM PST by gondramB ( We don't get no government loan and no one sends a check from home-we just do what what we wanna)
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To: neverdem

Fruit flies? I didn't know tree huggers we worth anything.


9 posted on 12/07/2005 6:04:21 PM PST by caisson71
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To: neverdem

Fruit flies? I didn't know tree huggers we worth anything.


10 posted on 12/07/2005 6:04:43 PM PST by caisson71
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To: neverdem

Really, this is quite interesting. A great leap forwards in science...

But why did you pick FRUIT FLIES?! Those hideous things live long enough already!


13 posted on 12/07/2005 6:14:45 PM PST by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: neverdem

Page me when they turn into Democrats.


14 posted on 12/07/2005 6:18:39 PM PST by labette (Opinions and Christian criticisms welcomed.)
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To: neverdem

And these fruit flies have evolved into what?, other than different kinds of flies.

FYI, I am not a religious crackpot.


18 posted on 12/07/2005 6:44:49 PM PST by rrr51
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To: neverdem
Through selective breeding, Dr. Rose was able to create a long-lived line of creatures he called Methuselah flies. He then put his research into reverse and developed flies with much shortened life spans ... All this was accomplished within 12 generations by accelerating the evolutionary processes in a laboratory setting.

Oh, brother. Are we back to fruitflies again? What a pantload.

1st graders repeat after me:

"selective breeding = artificial selection"

VERY GOOD CLASS! Now, repeat after me:

"artificial selection does NOT equal evolution!"

VERY GOOD, CLASS!

Out of all the hundreds of thousands of generations of fruit flies bred to study "evolution" we still have .... fruit flies.

19 posted on 12/07/2005 6:59:19 PM PST by manwiththehands ("Attack (Democrats) until they stop twitching and then attack some more." -J. Peter Mulhern)
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To: neverdem

Twelve generations? Don't see how that will do me any good?


22 posted on 12/07/2005 7:08:04 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: neverdem

"Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana".
Sorry, I couldn't resist.


24 posted on 12/07/2005 7:19:21 PM PST by whipitgood (Public schools have replaced a biblical moral code with pragmatism. Civilization, beware!)
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To: neverdem

I'll believe evolution is the sole source of life when the scientists are able to show me how random lightening can creat a self-breeding cell.


25 posted on 12/07/2005 8:17:06 PM PST by ConservativeChinese (I'm a Chinese, no affirmative action needed, thank you.)
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To: neverdem

YEC INTREP


26 posted on 12/07/2005 9:37:34 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America)
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