Posted on 10/02/2010 11:21:25 AM PDT by neverdem
This sounds like a worthwhile effort. Maybe Darwin was on to something with the finches.
It wasn't just the finches. You have virus fossils in your body too. Some have evolved to be beneficial to you too.
No offense, friend, but genomics has proven that Darwin didn’t know his gluteous maximus from Page 8. The only reason that otherwise rational people have glommed onto his psychobabble is because it forms the basis for denial of a Creator; a Creator/Judge to whom all must someday give an account.........unless they have a Savior.
Virus “fossil” ping!
No doubt. Just trying to gin up some entertainment this afternoon.
This book is a good read for the scientifically inclined/interested:
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
How so? Darwin's theory doea not contradict the idea that something does not come from nothing.
Correction: Darwin’s theory does not contradict the idea that something does not come from nothing.
It's also not psychology (psychobabble).
Flintstone Flu?
What do you have in mind? Because Darwin's central ideas were natural selection and common descent. And genomics (the sequencing and study of genomes) has certainly provided massive new evidence confirming common descent.
Absent common descent, for instance, nothing about the study described in this article would make any sense, and the result wouldn't even have been possible.
BTW, fossil virsus have also been found in the same positions in the DNA of humans and apes. And, as in the present study, they fit the necessary patterns of common descent (e.g. if present in humans and gorillas, must also be present in chimps; if present in orangutans and humans, must also be present in gorillas and chimps; etc).
Given that the particular place in the genome into which a virsus inserts itself is random, and that genomes are absurdly (haystack versus needle) massive compared to viruses, how do you explain, apart from common descent, how different species end up with the same fossil viruses in the same places in their DNA?
So when you go through the fossil record and find avian influenza infecting men, that means that men evolved from birds?
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The Scars of Evolution:"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins
by Elaine Morgan
You still have a genetic archaeology ping list?
So, that’s where it’s been all this time!
Ebola and Marburg likely comes from bats. However, we have not found the virus in nature yet, just genetic evidence in bats.
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