Posted on 05/20/2003 2:05:10 PM PDT by kkindt
Statements like this always make me chuckle. Like they know that an event occurred 5,000,000 years ago. LOL. Until another scientist proves them wrong in the future they cling to this b.s. The agenda driven pseudo scientists are out in force when it comes to this issue. But they forget to tell you that human and cat DNA is about 90% similar. In tracing the origin of a life form, DNA can no more be used as the final word than a Democrat's lips can be used for telling the truth. Notice they don't dare use the word "proof" when they talk about human and chimp DNA, they use the word "evidence", which means nothing in true science. True science deals in proof, not "evidence", and they still cannot prove humans evolved from chimps any better than they could when they placed human teeth in a gorilla skull and called it "Piltdown man". lol. They need to stop presenting this theoretical crap as though it were fact.
This is a nonsense. As someone said: "Nearly 75% of human genes have some counterpart in nematodes--a soil-dwelling worm that is about four thousandths of an inch long. Does that mean that a nematode is 75% human?"
There is a misleading and prevailing misconception that each organism or a cell develops out of DNA. It never happens, during the division of already existing cell the DNA gets replicated and inherited by each cell to be used as a library of genes. During the seuxal reproduction, DNA gets recombinated inside of already existing cells. Very different species can use even the same library in a different way and order.
They presented it as it is.... a theory.... that will hold up or not with further study. That is what science is, the study of things.... Some things that are proved, some things smart people may disagree on, and some things still baffle us.
The knee-jerk emotional dissmissal of this theory is much less scientific than the original theory. And presented here with much more *certainty* as fact.
I think this statement, like the chimp b.s., is more wishful thinking on your part than reality. St. Augustine, who died in the 5th Century, was a man who loved science right to his death, and he wrote that the earth was round and that "the earth is probably inhabited on the other side". Some people still attempt to use the Galileo fiasco as "proof" that Christians feared scientific "fact", but they conveniently forget that Galileo was educated in Catholic schools of science, by Catholic scientists. Whether or not the earth is the center of the universe has yet to be proved or disproved by science. Isn't it strange that the U.S. Navy, and N.A.S.A. both navigate by the geocentric principle,(the one that Galileo tried to replace with his heliocentricity). People of true faith do not fear science, they fear false science, and outcomes that are determined more by an agenda than by facts.
We have this really smart terrier, who, when she isn't being stubborn, perfectly understands commands like, "go into your cage" and "go outside." Sometimes we will give the commands without gesturing or looking in the desired direction, and the dog will go one way or the other, depending on whether we say "outside" or "cage." I don't think dogs understand grammar or anything like that, but they are smart enough to associate certain noises we make with certain behavior we expect of them. I would imagine that chimps can understand even more.
I do have a nightmare where corrupt politicians will have voting machines set up for chimps. It will feature a picture of a banana and when the chimp touches it, it will count as a vote! Anything is possible in a country where dead people vote for live politicians and, more recently, live people have voted for a dead politician. Our political system might go from bread and circuses to bananas and zoos!
After all, they share 100% of our genetic code.
I mean fair is fair, no?
OK - I must not have seen many of true faith then, because I see agenda coming out here without a lot of facts.
Isn't it strange that the U.S. Navy, and N.A.S.A. both navigate by the geocentric principle
I would guess that is most helpful getting around here... the only relevant motion is the motion relative to us. If we left the earth, I would guess that would be less helpful to us.
That is the harmony of nature.
Such events leave lots of evidence -- in the fossil record and in the genetic record. No one saw O.J. whack his wife, but the evidence most certainly points in that direction.
Some dolphins brains are bigger than yours and mine.
I am going to hire Flippers grandson to defend me at the next monkey trial. (It's going to be hard convincing the judge to hold the trial at Sea World though).
Science has nothing to do with common sense!
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