This oughta end well
Posted on 08/18/2011 4:46:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Scientists have undone the progress made by evolution by altering chicken DNA to create embryos with alligator-like snouts instead of beaks.
Experts changed the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their development, enabling them to undo evolutionary progress and give the creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous period millions of years ago.
The scientific revelation of 'rewinding' evolution could pave the way for scientists altering DNA in the other direction and use the same process to create species better able to adapt to Earth's climate. It has also been claimed that the breakthrough could eventually help eliminate birth defects in human children.
Arkhat Abzhanov, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, developed the chickens with snouts by cutting a square hole in the shell of a chicken egg and dropping in a small gelatinous protein bead before watching the embryo develop.
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Watch as he eats Central Europe.
Genetic modification is a sickness, and it’s only a matter of time before it goes wrong by biblical proportions.
“Experts changed the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their development, enabling them to undo evolutionary progress and give the creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous period millions of years ago.”
I am so tired of people writing as if evolution was fact and not a theory. Red flag when they write “are thought to”, doesn’t sound very factual to me. I don’t think they can prove they have undone anything. They have just altered and damaged the DNA.
This oughta end well
Exactly. This is like saying that if they pull out all the chicken's feathers and cut off his wings, they've turned him "back into" a lizard.
That paints a picture that is funny. I can see that chicken scratching in the dirt and flopping it’s big ole snout down and getting nothing lol
AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH....
I kinda like it. Chickens that coyotes and other predators have to think twice about. Plus we can drop the ‘scarce as hen’s teeth’ homily.
This is obviously for the export market to nations where cockfighting is still legal...
[pave the way for scientists altering DNA in the other direction and use the same process to create species better able to adapt to Earth’s climate.]
No need to adapt liberals to global warming, they are already brainless and won’t know the difference.
Don’t you see? Intelligently designing DNA proves that DNA wasn’t intelligently designed.
Scientists have undone the progress made by evolution
I know a few people that this is happening tooooo without scientists
“What kind of dog is that?”
“I don’t know what kind of dog he is, but before I cut off his tail and painted him yellow he was an alligator.”
Ok,we will go with Dummy Design as responsible for the origins of species. Instead of Darwiniac or Creator “behold! presto! a new species!” it was all “oops! dang! not another one!”
Are you picturing some sort of gar head? Hope they aren’t trying this on geese and emu, too.
Or raptors, either.
1) Random processes,
2) Stupid Design. or
3) Intelligent Design?
All this demonstrates is that with Intelligent Design, changes are possible.
“Hey look, I ran this article through the shredder and now it’s a pile of paper! Now I know the process by which the article was created! It was a shredder that did it!”
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