No, you didn't ask me to define entropy, you asked a much more ridiculous question. You asked…
Clearly you miss my point about entropy. Or you have some weird idea about the universe.
Also you miss what Lamarck actually said - he talked about acquired characteristics being inherited and that's EXACTLY what the grandmother research confirms.
Epigenetics turns out to have a lot to do with passing along characteristics, but try not putting words in my mouth - YOU are the believer in Evolution so trying to make out I am saying epigenetics replaces it somehow is just a red herring. You're making shit up to make out you know things you don't.
Oh god another one..
Meth.. still thinking evolution works by Lemarcks theory which it doesn't..
Google Lemarcks theory of evolution.. this is how you seem to evolution works.
Journeyman said:
A comment above about Lamarck is factually incorrect. Lamarck's ideas have recently been proven correct - environment CAN and DOES affect heredity. The grandmother research proves it and epigenetics gives the mechanism.
Oh dear buddy - you seem to be talking shit.
And no.. you are misunderstanding what he meant.
And I can use my intellect just fine thanks... and there is no reason to determine the Universe will die unless you accept the Big Bang idea as gospel. There are other scenarios and they are ones in which Man doesn't have to invent magic to make an hypothesis match up with the Universe 'out there.' To imply as you have that it is somehow inevitable puts you in the Believer category and belief has no place in Science.
Are you delusional? Do you really think that you understand the universe better than the scientists studying it?
Come on then.. what's your ground breaking nobel prize theory of how the universe works.
But no you're right on one thing, fair play, I don't know the universe will die.. It may simply retract back into itself and start all over again.. The universe's laws may be set up just right so that black holes break down the heavier atoms to become the fuel for new stars.
And in Science, you do NOT 'tweak' the Universe to make your hypothesis correct, you go and find a new hypothesis that matches the facts. THAT is Science. What you think of as Science is clearly a religion that can't be wrong so you have to believe in magic to make it right.
I didn't say that. I said the hypothesis has been and probably will be tweaked again once more information is gathered.
And what you think of science is that it claims to know the answer, and that answer is the truth. No no no my friend. Science forms a hypothesis based around evidence and information that we have.. when and if more information or new evidence arises which either adds more detail to the hypothesis or contradicts a part of it, then it is tweaked. It is reworked. If evidence arises which cannot be implemented into our current hypothesis, it's thrown out completely.
So clearly how I think of science is nothing like a religion.
As for order? Yes... we do. Or you haven't been looking. From sub-atomic to billion LY scale we see order.
I'm sorry but I have no idea what this is in reference to..
And using labels given to fossils found under dubious circumstances by people who have a reason to exaggerate their finds is NOT providing examples of human evolution - if that's what you meant about mutations. Other than that you maybe should quote your examples so I can find them...?
Dubious circumstances? lolwut?
You do know that the findings are open for the rest of the scientific community to take a look at? You really think the first unaffiliated scientist/s went down there, took a look, disagreed with the conclusion but turned around to the world to go- YEP! This is indeed a new species!.. And that every single scientist there after did the same thing?
I take it you are qualified enough to look at a skeleton, date it and then classify it?
And are you sure you're not an alt of meth? That's not what I meant by mutations at all. I'll post some pretty little links for you down below.
Your examples about practicing show 2 things - a misunderstanding of what epigenetics is and a lack of understanding about what a Mind can do. That's OK... you're in good company... well, maybe not good but there are millions of you. :D
Really? I'm fully aware of what epigenetics is.. If you'd like to quote the post in which I say something incorrect about epigenetics then please do.
How'd you work the second one out? What are you referring to? Why did you put a capital letter for mind?
You're smarmy belief that you are somehow winning this debate reeks either of delusional fool or a wanky troll.
But a small community in Italy is known to have a mutant version of this protein, named Apolipoprotein AI-Milano, or Apo-AIM for short. Apo-AIM is even more effective than Apo-AI at removing cholesterol from cells and dissolving arterial plaques, and additionally functions as an antioxidant, preventing some of the damage from inflammation that normally occurs in arteriosclerosis.
Mutations which impair the function of LRP5 are known to cause osteoporosis. But a different kind of mutation can amplify its function, causing one of the most unusual human mutations known.
This mutation was first discovered fortuitously, when a young person from a Midwest family was in a serious car crash from which they walked away with no broken bones. X-rays found that they, as well as other members of the same family, had bones significantly stronger and denser than average.
Italian researchers studying the population of the African country of Burkina Faso found a protective effect associated with a different variant of hemoglobin, named HbC. People with just one copy of this gene are 29% less likely to get malaria, while people with two copies enjoy a 93% reduction in risk. And this gene variant causes, at worst, a mild anemia, nowhere near as debilitating as sickle-cell disease.
However, my favorite example of a beneficial mutation is called “the CCR5Δ32 mutation.” This is where a certain protein that sits on the surface of your cells is missing a small segment. Because of this deletion, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is unable to attach to and enter your cells. This means that individuals with one copy of this gene are resistant to AIDS, and people with two copies of this mutation are completely immune to HIV-1.
There are more.. but that'll do for now.
Oh, and obviously they're some of the beneficial mutations.. There are of course - many more detrimental mutations such as Progeria, Hypertrichosis and Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis to name a few.
Are you still going to try and deny that genetic mutations happen?
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