Posted on 06/28/2013 8:13:52 AM PDT by null and void
This post should be tagged for “evolution” territory.
Always feel free to add any keyword you deem appropriate.
If, after studying all of this, they admit that there is not much variation or difference in the two horses ... stop the funding and go find YETI
“... I see no point in the research other than curiosity.”
Exactly. Much government-funded research is playground stuff. Scientists having fun with other people’s money, but realizing no tangible benefit to society.
Eohippus (meaning "dawn horse") was the earliest-known horse ...I assume 4 in the front and 3 in the back doesn't meet your high standards.This primitive horse had 4 hoofed toes on the front feet and 3 hoofed toes on each hind foot.
People said the same thing when a few people started playing with radium containing rocks in the 1800’s
Well, this research was not done here, it was Denmark. This type of research is not necessarily “playground” stuff either. This could lead to extraction and characterization of extremely ancient human DNA as well. Being able to track, characterize and understand changes and mutations in a species genome across the span of history can lead to insights that could identify reasons for certain diseases and lethal mutations in humans today and possibly provide a path for correcting those problems and/or curing some diseases. Basic research is the groundwork for more specific and useful research and breakthroughs.
“Basic research is the groundwork for more specific and useful research and breakthroughs.”
Understand your thoughts, fully. I have a basic science PhD in molecular biology, and an MD. But it’s impossible to refute your argument except to say one can always claim every seemingly trivial or esoteric discovery could change the world. But 99% won’t. Your argument cannot justify unlimited funding for very average ideas and scientists. There has to be a limit.
I would if I could, but ... can’t seem to do it. Moderator might do it for us.
If indeed horse DEvolved from 4 to one toe ... and it's ANY indication of anything ... I'd get on my knees and ask Jesus to save me before I lost my mind.
and what does radium do today ???
Could, maybe, might ... what makes anyone think we’re going to be around the hundreds of years (from now) when it all MAY come to fruition ?
From Jones' "Introduction" we have ...
"For the past two decades the nation has lived through an episode that has, with extraordinary speed, laid bare the argument of The Origin of Species. The organism involved was unknown in the ninteenth century, but is now familiar. It is the AIDS virus."
The rest of the book is a modern update of every chapter in Darwin's "Origin."
Hmmmm. I simply clicked on “Click to Add Keyword” and typed it in.
I didn’t see any particular need to attract the “but but but the entire universe is only 6016 years, 6 months, 22 days and 37 minutes old” crowd.
They and their anti-science/Luddite ilk seem to have no difficulty finding these threads without any additional help.
That's a surprise.
If indeed horse DEvolved from 4 to one toe
It did.
... and it's ANY indication of anything ...
It is.
I'd get on my knees and ask Jesus to save me before I lost my mind.
No comment.
The study of radium containing rocks lead to a few useful things.
I bet you don't know of a single one, do you?
An old man should never plant a tree.
The fruits won't appear until he is dead.
Useful lumber won't be available until his children are old.
No point. No point at all.
False alarm. It’s just Hillary. All that horse manure fooled us.
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