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Mouse Study Shows 'Junk DNA' Is Actually Required (article)
Institute for Creation Research ^ | 1-15-2014 | Jeffrey Tomkins PhD

Posted on 01/17/2014 8:20:17 AM PST by fishtank

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To: Iron Munro

Global warming is manmade, in the mind’s of tree-huggers, politicians, and scientists who are created the scare in order to milk tax dollars.


41 posted on 01/17/2014 11:32:04 AM PST by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: proud American in Canada

Hey! At work keep your junk in the trunk.


42 posted on 01/17/2014 11:45:56 AM PST by DManA
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To: attiladhun2

Re: evolution vs climate change

There is not much difference from government funded evolution research to help us convert from a judeo-christian based culture to a secular culture both aided mightily by the press and other authority figures. Just taking them a lot longer to wrest control.

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” - 4th Chief Justice of the US John Marshall


43 posted on 01/17/2014 12:09:41 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: fishtank

No matter your thoughts on how matter was assembled (Creator, Nature, cosmic coincidence, etc), there’s not exactly a lot of wasted space or matter anywhere in the world, scientifically-speaking.


44 posted on 01/17/2014 12:14:03 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: fishtank

The “junk DNA” concept is 50 years old at this point. In the intervening time, we’ve learned more about how it works and discovered that some things we thought had no purpose actually do. That’s how science is supposed to work, and I’m sure that no one’s more excited about the new discoveries than the scientists who originally called it “junk”—except maybe people like ICR, who find advantage in pretending that there’s some monolithic scientific establishment dedicated to protecting the “junk DNA” concept.


45 posted on 01/17/2014 12:17:21 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: fishtank
Some scientists had a theory and, after more research, learned more.

Sounds like what science is supposed to do.

46 posted on 01/17/2014 3:04:59 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: BrandtMichaels
There is not much difference from government funded evolution research to help us convert from a judeo-christian based culture to a secular culture both aided mightily by the press and other authority figures.

Why doesn't a patient God work for you?

47 posted on 01/17/2014 3:07:02 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Quite simply, long ages is ~ theistic evolution ~ a farce and goes against everything that’s foundational in the Bible. The Bible has shone time and time again to be the most accurate historical document bar none for mankind’s 5-6k years of existence. Beyond that is pure conjecture for anyone claiming to do hard science. Here’s a link on why Genesis matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Y7TfV3QQg

I believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. It is Truth against which all other claims to truth must be measured.

Mainstream scientists, media, politicians, authority figures often lose public credibility if they believe the Bible over commonly accepted cultural ‘truths’ [i.e. global warm err climate change] yet if they go along to get along they often do just fine. Make waves though and watch them be ostracized.

Yet hard science or following the scientific method excludes historical science as being truly scientific [i.e. basic fundamentals include observation and repeatability not too mention a theory must be falsifiable]. Evolution fails all three miserably.

Yet who is it really to promotes which facts are more important than any other less commonly known contradictory facts?

Here are some facts you may not be aware of:

101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth


48 posted on 01/18/2014 5:50:16 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
The Bible has shone time and time again to be the most accurate historical document bar none for mankind’s 5-6k years of existence.

Right, because God has to be a college student, cramming for a final.

God can't possibly create the Universe and let 13 billion years pass.

49 posted on 01/18/2014 6:47:52 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Ever study gravitational time dilation per one Albert Einstein?

Study that or the websites I provided

AND

then get back to me...


50 posted on 01/18/2014 7:44:59 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
Ever study gravitational time dilation per one Albert Einstein?

Excellent! The Earth is billions of years old. Glad you can see it now.

51 posted on 01/18/2014 7:54:46 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Then why has Dr Lisle found carbon 14 in dinosaur fossils?


52 posted on 01/18/2014 8:10:05 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels

Dinosaur fossils with human tool marks?


53 posted on 01/18/2014 8:40:38 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

If you are half as intelligent as you think you are you might consider researching both sides of the creation vs evolution debate. I’m not holding my breath though based upon your childish responses.


54 posted on 01/18/2014 9:23:08 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe

No scientific method can prove the age of the earth and the universe, and that includes the ones we have listed here.

No book can prove the age of the earth, and that includes the Bible.

The assumptions behind the evidences presented here cannot be proved,

What? Impossible!

1.DNA in ‘ancient’ fossils. DNA extracted from bacteria that are supposed to be 425 million years old brings into question that age, because DNA could not last more than thousands of years.

Why can't DNA last more than thousands of years?

2.Lazarus bacteria—bacteria revived from salt inclusions supposedly 250 million years old, suggest the salt is not millions of years old. See also Salty saga.

Why does it suggest that?

3.The decay in the human genome due to multiple slightly deleterious mutations each generation is consistent with an origin several thousand years ago.

Decay in the genome? Multiple deleterious mutations per generation? Lots of unproven assumptions here.

55 posted on 01/19/2014 10:44:15 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I’ll make this simple for you.

Your original question - Why am I not OK with a patient God.

I am OK with a patient God, but not w/ a God who lies to me.


56 posted on 01/20/2014 4:24:44 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels

Did the Bible say the Universe cannot be billions of years old? Where?


57 posted on 01/20/2014 5:55:46 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Not in so many words, but all of the begetting and begotting in the Bible adds up to approx 6k years.

Conversely, sin brought death and destruction to all the living creatures on Earth therefore when God declared His creation very good there was no death, disease nor corruption found in His creation.

I’m led to believe that at that time not even the devil nor his demons had fallen from grace.


58 posted on 01/20/2014 7:20:03 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
Not in so many words, but all of the begetting and begotting in the Bible adds up to approx 6k years.

So it doesn't actually say the Universe can't be billions of years old.

59 posted on 01/20/2014 7:40:32 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I just assumed you were some flavor of Christian, no matter - there is no substitute for reading God’s words for yourself. It’s what convinced and convicted me of my need for a Saviour.

All my early years spent in a catholic pew only convinced me getting to Heaven would be quite probably impossible. In fact, it is impossible without Christ!


60 posted on 01/21/2014 8:57:37 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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