Junk DNA goodbye!: non-coding lncRNA & regeneration (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 25, 2018, 18:22 (2283 days ago) @ dhw

Under "pointy end eggs"):

QUOTE: “In general, an egg's conicality was the most reliable predictor of its likelihood of staying put on inclined surfaces," Hauber says. "This finding provides experimental support for natural selection shaping the unique form of murre eggs amongst all bird eggs.”

DAVID: These eggs cannot have been developed by chance attempts if the birds were to survive. Only design fits.

dhw: When you say only design fits, what exactly do you mean? That your God preprogrammed pointed murre eggs 3.8 billion years ago, or that he saw murre eggs falling off the cliff, and in order to preserve the balance of nature so that life could go on until he produced the brain of Homo sapiens, stepped in to change round to pointy? How about Hauber’s suggestion that natural selection fits: round eggs didn’t survive, and pointy eggs did?

DAVID: If you understood how difficult it is to make a shelled egg of any shape, it is difficult to see how the birds arrived at changing their cloaca to do that all at once on cliffs. Natural selection is the usual tautology true Darwinists fall back upon. Really!

dhw: I do not believe they did it all at once. I am suggesting that lots and lots of round eggs fell off the cliff, and only pointy ones survived, and so in the end there were only pointy ones. Meanwhile, why don’t you answer my question? Do you believe your God preprogrammed pointy eggs 3.8 billion years ago, or personally dabbled them when he saw so many falling off the cliff?

Again, your fealty to Darwin's hunt and peck chance approach. The pointed eggs require a specific type of cloacal shape, which must be created by a changed DNA. Either the cloaca makes round or pointed, not the possibility of both types. I'm sure God helped in design of the proper shaped egg for cliff-side dwelling with no nest to control the eggs.