[celmak]

ping

[Uncle Miltie]

“You shall not prostrate yourself to them nor worship them, for I am Hashem, your G-d - a jealous G-d, Who visits the sin of the fathers upon children to the third and fourth generations, for My enemies”

- Exodus, 20:5

[celmak]

Yet epigenetics suggests this isn't the whole story. If what happens to you during your lifetime – living in a stress-inducing henhouse, say, or overeating in northern Sweden – can affect how your genes express themselves in future generations, the absolutely simple version of natural selection begins to look questionable."

Hmmm...

[fanfan]

Will these twinkies make my daughter’s butt look big?

[Maelstorm]

This is not new only ignored. There has been evidence for lamarkian processes in evolution for the past 20 years or more. Evolution has faced the same kind of leftist narrow often idiotic interpretation that we see coming out of environmental and social sciences. We live in generation where the information is everywhere and few comprehend the significance of anything.

[aruanan]

Wow, that article was almost as long as a pre-trib rapture piece.

[Popman]

The Swedish chicken study was one of several recent breakthroughs in the youthful field of epigenetics, which primarily studies the epigenome, the protective package of proteins around which genetic material – strands of DNA – is wrapped. The epigenome plays a crucial role in determining which genes actually express themselves in a creature's traits: in effect, it switches certain genes on or off, or turns them up or down in intensity. It isn't news that the environment can alter the epigenome; what's news is that those changes can be inherited. And this doesn't, of course, apply only to chickens: some of the most striking findings come from research involving humans.

This can explain why certain households in this country have generational problems even with the best intentions fail to correct.

Very interesting theory

[wendy1946]

What if Darwin's theory of natural selection is inaccurate?

What if evolution is a bunch of brain-dead BS....

[count-your-change]

It sounds like two scholars debating over a point in the Talmud. And about as useful.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The Guardian

[ForGod'sSake]

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[editor-surveyor]

Its always a laugh to see someone that considers themself a scientist acting as though they really believe that evolution could have happened.

Or is it just the goofy writers?

[Poe White Trash]

All things old are new again:

Not to mention...

[GOPJ]

The irony in all this is that Darwin himself never claimed that it was. He went to his deathbed protesting that he'd been misinterpreted: there was no reason, he said, to assume that natural selection was the only imaginable mechanism of evolution.

Interesting post... thanks.

[Randy Larsen]

From readying the article, I’ve come to the conclusion that the human brain cannot comprehend or fathom the process of natural selection far enough back as to understand the effects that alter future generations and why..

Damn that was hard to write!

[Randy Larsen]

From reading the article, I’ve come to the conclusion that the human brain cannot comprehend or fathom the process of natural selection far enough back as to understand the effects that alter future generations and why..

Damn that was hard to write!

SEE!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Creationists support Lamarckian inheritance now?

[70times7]

[brityank]

The Swedish chicken study was one of several recent breakthroughs in the youthful field of epigenetics, which primarily studies the epigenome, the protective package of proteins around which genetic material – strands of DNA – is wrapped. The epigenome plays a crucial role in determining which genes actually express themselves in a creature's traits: in effect, it switches certain genes on or off, or turns them up or down in intensity. It isn't news that the environment can alter the epigenome; what's news is that those changes can be inherited. And this doesn't, of course, apply only to chickens: some of the most striking findings come from research involving humans.

"Something else for the FR Folding gang to ruminate" PING.

[Waco]

Darwin was the algorejr. of his generation, nothing more.