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115. "RE: I presented it as science showing evolution in bact"
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>How is it showing evolution? Explain the article to me. It
>is assuming evolution. If there was a painting called E
>Coli and a painting called B Aspirida that shared common
>features. You wouldn't say that they evolved from one
>painting. You would say that's proof that one artist did
>both paintings.

Why do you need me to explain it to you - I thought you were supposed to be a biochem guy? It is explained in the excerpt I posted; if you have a biochem background then you should be able to understand what the article is saying, and if it is wrong or if its conclusions are of dubious validity, you should be able to refute them with more convincing arguments than some bogus painting analogy.

>Clock's still ticking.

Don't hold your breath.

>Evidence without proof isn't evidence.

??? I think you are having a little difficulty with semantics there.

> Fairly tales can be
>proven false, I've yet to see someone prove the bible wrong.

I thought you said Adam and Eve were mythical? Well, which is it? If they're mythical, then the bible is wrong.

>I'm not trying to reconcile anything. My point is that the
>fact that organisms share a lot of the same features is
>proof of creation.

Funny how you deride genomic mapping which shows strong scientific evidence for reductive evolution as invalid proof, yet you think this hand-waving argument is somehow "proof" of creationism - that is not very objective, now is it?

>Why would God create a perfectly good
>metabolism pathway only to change things from species. It
>would seem to me that if was left to evolution there would
>be multiple ways of getting energy from sucrose...why only
>have TCA cyles?

Maybe bc it worked fine and there was no need to change from an evolutionary standpoint.

>This is what I said:
>>What a funny world, we don't believe
>>in an omniscient God,yet we're building quantum computers
>>that work on the same principles.

Right - you said it works on the "same principles" (plural) of "an omniscient God"; you did not specify that it was only the principle (singular) of being ominiscient - RIF.

>So a qubit would hold simultaneously a zero, a one, both a
>zero and one, and nothing...and you wouldn't know what value
>was until you accessed it. So if I had a memory module that
>was 4 qubits wide, and my computer wanted the value 0101
>from ram...it would already be there. What about the value
>1010? 0001? 0010? 1100? 1001? 0110? I see because, of
>quantum physics every outcome possible (from the computers
>point of view) is already stored in memory. Sort of like it
>knows all. That principle sounds familiar.

It cannot store "every possible outcome", just a great, great # of outcomes - however, it is not an infinite #. And anyway, being able to store a great # of multiple values at the same time does not equate to infinite knowledge of all things everywhere; therefore "omniscience" is quite a misnomer for this.

>But let's get back to why humans evolved so much over
>~700,000 generations, yet E Coli haven't. Experiments are
>being run on the very subject. I wouldn't call adapting
>evolution, though. We get a new hominid species with every
>new skull found. The bacteria in the experiments are still
>called E. Coli.

Your premise is inherently flawed bc you are presuming an equivalent 1-to-1 correlation between E coli and hominid generations. For starters, the degree of clonality in E coli populations is not 1 (more like ~ .5), therefore each generation does not encompass a complete genetic shuffling as with sexual reproduction and thus cannot be directly compared to hominid generations on a 1-to-1 basis for the purpose you are suggesting.

Furthermore, your method of calculating all the E coli generations over 40 years or whatever for comparison is faulty bc all of those generations are not in the same population - 5,000 generations studied and terminated in 1960 and another 5,000 generations studied and terminated in 1990 does not give a sum total of 10,000 sequential generations in the same population. So you cannot come up with some theoretical number of E coli generations over 40 years or whatever and compare this to sequential generations of hominids over whatever millions of years.

In short, your fuzzy math simply doesn't add up.

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Disprove Evolution [View all] , tappenzee, Sun Sep-21-03 04:15 AM
 
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umm...
Sep 22nd 2003
1
umm...
Sep 24th 2003
49
      fuckin' classic!!
Sep 24th 2003
70
           excellent argument
Sep 24th 2003
71
yeah...
Sep 22nd 2003
2
one thing...
Sep 22nd 2003
3
AHHHHH!
Sep 24th 2003
72
GW Bush
Sep 22nd 2003
4
RE: GW Bush
Sep 29th 2003
99
TAP? You there?
Sep 22nd 2003
5
RE: TAP? You there?
Sep 22nd 2003
6
No... look at what you're saying
Sep 22nd 2003
8
      RE: No... look at what you're saying
Sep 23rd 2003
32
      RE: No... look at what you're saying
Oct 01st 2003
117
RE: TAP? You there?
Sep 22nd 2003
7
Jawnz...
Sep 22nd 2003
9
      RE: Jawnz...
Sep 22nd 2003
10
      Don't Stop
Sep 22nd 2003
11
           RE: Don't Stop
Sep 22nd 2003
12
                Keep Going
Sep 22nd 2003
14
                     RE: Keep Going
Sep 22nd 2003
15
                     RE: Keep Going
Sep 22nd 2003
17
                          Keep Going
Sep 22nd 2003
18
                               Keep going where?
Sep 22nd 2003
19
                                    I'm gonna give myself carpal tunnel....
Sep 22nd 2003
20
                                    why?
Sep 22nd 2003
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                                         Incorrect
Sep 22nd 2003
26
                                              that's not an answer
Sep 22nd 2003
28
                                                   BECAUSE
Sep 22nd 2003
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                                                        RE: BECAUSE
Sep 22nd 2003
31
                                                        no
Sep 23rd 2003
33
                                                             RE: no
Sep 23rd 2003
36
                                                        Morality has NOTHING to do with this discussion
Sep 23rd 2003
37
                                    Thank You Thank You Thank You
Sep 22nd 2003
23
                                    no problem
Sep 22nd 2003
25
                                    Hov!
Sep 25th 2003
77
                                    What makes you so certain
Sep 29th 2003
100
                                         works either way
Oct 01st 2003
116
      why does there have to be a creator though?
Sep 23rd 2003
35
           not only that
Sep 23rd 2003
38
God's creatures evolved...
Sep 23rd 2003
34
RE: Disprove Evolution
Sep 22nd 2003
13
RE: Disprove Evolution
Sep 22nd 2003
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Please, EVERYONE
Sep 22nd 2003
21
One more time man... IT'S NOT RELEVANT
Sep 24th 2003
44
      SPEAK UP
Sep 24th 2003
59
           40thStreetBlack explained why over and over again.
Sep 25th 2003
80
                he can listen to Jimi; he just can't *hear* Jimi
Sep 27th 2003
88
fossil record show clear progression of horse evolution
Sep 22nd 2003
22
Here's a theory
Sep 22nd 2003
27
RE: Here's a theory
Sep 22nd 2003
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I'm a Creationist...
Sep 23rd 2003
39
don't really need to prove anything
Sep 23rd 2003
40
So...
Sep 24th 2003
60
E. Coli bacteria
Sep 23rd 2003
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hahaha
Sep 24th 2003
43
Even the experts overlook things
Sep 24th 2003
45
      hey, skippy
Sep 24th 2003
46
           Penicillin is a compound
Sep 24th 2003
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           And as far as the two bit article goes
Sep 24th 2003
55
                well geez
Sep 24th 2003
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                RE: And as far as the two bit article goes
Sep 24th 2003
57
                     RE: And as far as the two bit article goes
Sep 24th 2003
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Faulty logic
Sep 25th 2003
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      Actually E.coli
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           Which begs the question
Sep 27th 2003
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           works fine for simple single-celled microorganisms...
Sep 27th 2003
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           the *primary* means of reproduction is binary fission
Sep 27th 2003
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                conjugation is independent of reproduction
Sep 28th 2003
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                     genomic evolution mapped in close relative of E.Coli
Sep 28th 2003
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                          Ahh...
Sep 28th 2003
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                               is that supposed to disprove the paper in some way?
Sep 30th 2003
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                                    You presented the article
Sep 30th 2003
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                                    I presented it as science showing evolution in bacteria
Sep 30th 2003
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                                         RE: I presented it as science showing evolution in bact
Oct 01st 2003
113
                                             
                                                   RE: I presented it as science showing evolution in bact
Oct 01st 2003
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                                                        RE: I presented it as science showing evolution in bact
Oct 04th 2003
121
                                    you are so, so, so, so, right.
Sep 30th 2003
106
RE: Disprove Evolution
Sep 24th 2003
42
just to clear things up
Sep 24th 2003
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Archaeopteryx: clear 'missing link' bet. bird &dinosaur
Sep 24th 2003
66
record shows horses evolved from one species to another
Sep 24th 2003
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MY QUESTION...
Sep 24th 2003
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they're working on it
Sep 24th 2003
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      thanks...but...
Sep 24th 2003
51
           it doesn't necessarily HAVE to have worked out the
Sep 28th 2003
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                HEY!
Oct 01st 2003
108
micro vs macro
Sep 24th 2003
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this is why people choose to believe in creationism..
Sep 24th 2003
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I am trying to maintain composure but...
Sep 24th 2003
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      RE: I am trying to maintain composure but...
Sep 24th 2003
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           RE: I am trying to maintain composure but...
Sep 24th 2003
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           see post 66
Sep 24th 2003
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           you can't be through
Sep 24th 2003
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Same thing - one is just an extention of the other
Sep 24th 2003
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      RE: Same thing - one is just an extention of the other
Sep 25th 2003
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      whatever
Sep 25th 2003
75
      archaeopteryx is a bird, not dinasour
Sep 25th 2003
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           semantics - it is still a clear transitional form
Sep 27th 2003
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                still a bird
Oct 01st 2003
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                     oh yeah before
Oct 01st 2003
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                     Still a transitional form
Oct 13th 2003
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Evolution exsists
Sep 24th 2003
52
RE: Evolution exsists
Sep 24th 2003
63
a qoute from stephen gould
Sep 25th 2003
79
GTFOOHWTBS
Sep 26th 2003
81
exactly
Sep 28th 2003
95
did you see the one
Sep 29th 2003
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      nah I missed that one
Sep 30th 2003
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RE: GTFOOHWTBS
Oct 01st 2003
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      can't even argue with you
Oct 01st 2003
114
out of context;discussing gradual evol vs punct equilib
Sep 28th 2003
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      RE: out of context;discussing gradual evol vs punct equ
Oct 01st 2003
111
we were created, then we evolved
Sep 26th 2003
82
Hey Debate Club members?
Sep 26th 2003
83
RE: Disprove Evolution
Sep 26th 2003
84
Maybe I can...kind've....softshoe in here a bit
Sep 26th 2003
85
101 and having fun
Sep 30th 2003
101
102 no thanks to you.
Sep 30th 2003
102
RE: Disprove Evolution
Oct 01st 2003
118
HEAR ME OUT
Oct 01st 2003
119

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