More "miscellany" (General)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 16:55 (716 days ago) @ dhw
edited by David Turell, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 17:18

SHAPIRO

DAVID: Not autonomous, all programmed. Bacteria must have this ability as one-cell free-living organisms.

dhw: But you believe that ALL life forms are programmed to edit their DNA in accordance with your God’s instructions. So, what is the bacterial ability that “ none else have”?

Where did your bolded comment come from? God's instructions tell cells directly what to do. Only bacteria edit, Shapiro's great research shows.

DAVID: Note they do not speciate! Which makes Shapiro's evolution theory as dead in the water. But his bacterial work is brilliant.

dhw: But I thought you thought all species (except the “de novo” Cambrians) were descended from bacteria. This could only mean that although some bacteria remained unchanged, others combined and cooperated to create new forms.

God speciates. The bold is your hopeful belief system to avoid God.

STEM CELLS

DAVID: Germ cells must be the source of speciation. Only they make the new embryonic forms which will contain stem cells to run fetal development.

dhw: Perhaps I have misunderstood the science here. I thought germ cells looked after fertilization and reproduction, but it is stem cells that determine what is reproduced. If one species is to change into another, wouldn’t it be the stem cells and not the germ cells that made the changes which are to be reproduced? This is a genuine question – I’m not putting forward a theory!

A new individual is in every fertilized egg with Dad and Mum's combined DNA. If the new individual is a new species. That DNA does it!!! It came from one or both parents. Stem cells appear from that and are agents of embryological programmed construction.


Computer sickness

DAVID: My apologies for this current situation. My computer is in the geek squad hospital and my wife has generously set up her old tower to allow me to limp along. The patient should be revived in a day or two. It contains all of my science resources for new interesting entries in all spheres of interest. I'm sure dhw will show compassion for my problem.

dhw: You have my sympathy, and I must confess that my current workload is such that I am not unhappy at the limited range of subject matter! However, it is your research that keeps the website going, and as we still have quite a large number of people viewing these articles, I’m sure they are as grateful to you as I am. We thank your wife for the rescue operation, and wish your computer a speedy recovery.

She is away today on multiple errands, one of which is to pick up the repaired tower.


Einstein

dhw: I’m surprised the article didn’t mention the famous “train” example, but it’s a useful summary, devalued only by your silly comment below:

It did but by now followers know Doppler and space saving is required


DAVID:: God made our world counterintuitive in relativity and quantum mechanics. And folks like dhw wish to analyze God and outthink Him, complaining about what He has created and the way He did it, ignoring the factual history God created along the way. We have only a smidgeon of His mental capacity. We cannot fathom those depths.

dhw: I do not complain about it, and I do not ignore the factual history, and I do not deny that we have only a smidgeon etc. As an agnostic I am probably even more aware than you that “we cannot fathom” the depths – which includes the question of whether there is a God at all. Please stop pretending that my logical objections to your illogical theory of evolution, and my alternative explanations of the factual history, constitute an attempt to outthink your God. It is your illogical interpretation of the factual history and of your God’s possible nature, purpose and method that I complain about.

You are Illogical in the way you imagine God's personality and as a result you do not understand my thinking.


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