re: #424 palarson

You should not be surprised if people doubt you when you assert as scientific truth that which provides no advantage whatsoever, particularly when it contradicts beliefs on their part which they think do.

Darwin and Mendel provided the intellectual impetus that persuaded Watson & Crick to identify and isolate DNA. It is through the genetic manipulation of DNA that we now have hardier crops, that can grow in wider areas, are more resistent to parasites, and produce more food. And allowed us to splice a daffodil gene sequence into the rice genome, producing a vitamin A rich grain that keeps millions of poor Southeast Asian children from coming down with rickets. I don’t wanna hear this false ‘no advantage’ bullshit from you ever again.

Stop whining about what other people think and figure out some way to harness your theory. The best way to get my attention is to turn it to a money making or resource multiplying advantage.

See above.

Pointing to several instances of a rabbit being pulled from a seemingly empty hat doesn’t prove that rabbits materialize from the insides of hats. You should be delighted that this sort of empirical evidence doesn’t carry much weight.

Reconstructing extinct retroviruses from the genetic sequences that were ancient embedded in our genomes ain’t magic, it’s science. So was splicing a genetic bioluminescence sequence from jellyfish into the mouse genome, allowing us to better study the fine-grained structure and function of induced cancerous tumors.

Evolution is not science in the way people expect science to be to understood. When someone argues with you about the theory of gravity all you need to do to prove your point is utilize ballistic calculations to drop an artillery shell or two on their heads. That’s science as its meant to be understood. All else is wishful thinking. Yes, your faith, your religion.

All you have to do is go to Richard Lenski’s laboratory and he can replay a spontaneous genetic mutation before your very eyes. And all you have to do to see that apes and humans evolutionarily diverged from common ancestors is to check their thousands of identical artifactual retroviral DNA sequences, showing identical coefficients of genetic degradation (a measure of how long they’ve been spliced in), located at identical locations in the 3 billion base pair genomes of humans and great apes.