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Human Brain Evolution Was a 'Special Event'
Howard Hughes Medical Institute ^ | 29 December 2004 | Staff

Posted on 01/12/2005 8:00:35 AM PST by PatrickHenry

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Everyone be nice.
1 posted on 01/12/2005 8:00:36 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
EvolutionPing
For the evolution side of the debate. See list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added/dropped.

2 posted on 01/12/2005 8:01:54 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

I'd like 11 in the pool.


3 posted on 01/12/2005 8:02:53 AM PST by ASA Vet (FreeRepublic needs a science forum.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Couldn't God have used evolution as a tool in his creation? A day is likened unto a thousand years to God.


4 posted on 01/12/2005 8:08:56 AM PST by Jay777 (Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman. Kurt Cobain)
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To: Jay777

I guess it was a pretty steep evolutionary curve when God spoke us into existence...


5 posted on 01/12/2005 8:10:42 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: PatrickHenry

It's widely hypothesized that the human brain is the result of sexual selection. Brainpower confers social and political power (i.e., wealth). Smarter men have more offspring.


6 posted on 01/12/2005 8:10:51 AM PST by js1138 (D*mn, I Missed!)
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To: PatrickHenry

I'm sorry but there is no way I can belive evolution, there is just no way it is possible. The chances to create life as complicated as Human beings is just far too remote (say the chances of Teddy turning republican). Evolution still doesnt explain anything about animals anyway. nice post though.


7 posted on 01/12/2005 8:11:02 AM PST by Sovek (It is not the end, it is not the beginning, perhaps it is the end of the beginning)
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To: js1138

That's why Screech always got the girls.


8 posted on 01/12/2005 8:11:41 AM PST by bigLusr (Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur)
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To: Sovek

So couldn't their have been God guiding evolution?


9 posted on 01/12/2005 8:12:59 AM PST by Jay777 (Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman. Kurt Cobain)
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To: PatrickHenry
Anyone who's watched 2001: A Space Odyssey knows what really happened.
10 posted on 01/12/2005 8:13:11 AM PST by Batrachian
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To: Batrachian

That is a really cool movie in my opinion.


11 posted on 01/12/2005 8:13:44 AM PST by Jay777 (Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman. Kurt Cobain)
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To: Sovek

Mmm, Sovek, would you care to state what the theory of evolution says? (without going and looking it up now, please; that would be deceit because you just said you don't believe it so you must know what it is)


12 posted on 01/12/2005 8:14:20 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: PatrickHenry

"special event" on Earth? Yes definitely. Special event in our Galaxy or the rest of the universe? too early to say. We just got started looking. We have only one intelligent species/planet to study right now.


13 posted on 01/12/2005 8:14:33 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: js1138

Thank you for pointing that out. Explain why there are two genders of, well everything? It just seems that our existance is too perfect to be by chance.


14 posted on 01/12/2005 8:14:59 AM PST by Sovek (It is not the end, it is not the beginning, perhaps it is the end of the beginning)
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To: js1138

I seriously doubt "smart" men have more children, at least not from what I've seen.


15 posted on 01/12/2005 8:15:43 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: Sovek
"I'm sorry but there is no way I can belive evolution..."

Will you concede that domestic animals evolve through selective breeding? A poodle never existed in nature. It was bred into existence by people. Why is it such a stretch of the imagination to suppose that such a thing can happen randomly in nature?

16 posted on 01/12/2005 8:16:09 AM PST by Batrachian
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To: PatrickHenry

Oh my, some minds evolve faster than the rest.


17 posted on 01/12/2005 8:16:19 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: PatrickHenry

If an evolutionist is ever bothering you, you can distract them by telling them to walk toward a wall but only covering 1/2 the distance each time.

Evolutionist like taking iddibidy numbers and multiplying them by hugemongous numbers and pretend they get anything near a correct answer.

Sometimes I think even God rounds off and if that can explain all the questions in Physics.


18 posted on 01/12/2005 8:17:28 AM PST by PropheticZero
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To: PatrickHenry

This is no different than saying that long necks on Giraffes are a special event. It's just specialization.


19 posted on 01/12/2005 8:18:02 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Sovek
Explain why there are two genders of, well everything?

Animals that have two genders have a better ability to exchange genetic material.

20 posted on 01/12/2005 8:18:30 AM PST by Modernman (What is moral is what you feel good after. - Ernest Hemingway)
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