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Again we are talking about Dr Ornish's program. He convinced president Clinton and congress that his program works so there are now 40 insurance company's that pay for it. Just diet, exercise and stress control. People can avoid the need for drugs and surgery. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
He is a clinic, the director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Every patient that goes through the program improves. Again, that is why insurance company's pay for it, because it has been proven to work. He has many many publications to that effect in cardiology and oncology journals. The most rigorous and credible peer reviewed evaluations. Also his program is in at least five medical books. You know the books doctors study when they go to medical school. But if you want to try to defend junk food and the merits of being a couch potato and the advantages of dysfunctional relationships then give it your best shot.
Sorry nobody floundering here, i just acknowledge the fact that there as there nothing to differentiate the 1000+ gods that humanity have believed in, in all liklehood either god/gods created the universe and went on holiday, or there is a natural explanation. The natural being more likely.
I think to much is read into selection being not random. It is selective as far as allowing those that have any physical traits that will give them an advantage over others for survival. But that is not something that evolution will know and continue to be directed towards. Its not as if the process will give an animals a bit of a wing or biological system and then natural selection knows that it needs to add the rest of whatever it started in the future. Its still random as far as both mutations and selection working together are concerned. If it was so selective in that sense then you may as well say there was some intelligence involved.
Often, yes, but not always, and the mutations which convey a positive benefit tend to be passed on. This claim is simply not tenable, and there is virtually nobody in biology or genetics who believes that evolution cannot account for the diversity of life on earth.
It can account for the diversity and variety of creatures within their kinds but it cant account for all of the earths creatures coming from a single ancestor or creating new types of creatures from existing ones. The process to make new and different genetic info from genetic ability that is not there in the first place has not been seen or demonstrated. You can change a fly and add extra wings, a antenna where an eye is or extra eyes. But you cant turn a fly into a grass hopper or cockroach.
I dont know you tell me. Doesn't evolution say that all life started from bacteria in some pool or ocean. So everything can be traced back to that. So the fly to grass hopper may not be the best example. But if we use say the Dino to bird or the dog like creature Pakicetus to whale example we can see the same type of thing. There would have to be many changes in the genetics and features of these to be able to transform from one to another.
Why in the thousands of generations of fly evolution tests in labs have we not seen a fly become something else besides a fly. They have varied many things on the fly such as adding extra wings, more eyes and pacing its existing parts in new places on its body. But they have not added anything new as far as features are concerned in which it hasn't already got. In other words all they are doing is playing around with the existing genetics and changing what it already has.
No this is one of the only examples that evolutionists keep using and its been shown not to be the case for evolution. They are still bacteria. The new functions are derived from the existing genetic info that is in the gene pool of those bacteria. Or it happens from a change or loss of function of the existing genes. Nothing new is introduced from outside. Bacteria also have a high ability to have HGT. So they can gain genetic info from other bacteria horizontally as well.
I did a study once of the cause of death of ancient pre civilization skeletons they find. Everyone I found was killed, people did not die from natural causes. This was Cains concern, he said: "I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Evolution is descent with modification. What do you expect? A fly to "evolve" into a finch? That's not what evolution is.
We would expect the fly to evolve into a different sort of insect. A dragonfly or something. Yet you start with a fly and you end up with a fly. Lots of evidence for micro evolution, no evidence for macro evolution.
