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An open debate to Atheists on a creator.

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Astrophile

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I stopped reading 'How Quantum Physics Can Teach Biologists About Evolution when I got to the beginning of the seventh paragraph, which says

[Biologists] cite radiocarbon dating to show that Earth is billions of years old, not a few thousand years old, as some creationists would have it.

Every schoolchild knows (or ought to know) that the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730±40 years and that radiocarbon dating is possible only to ages of about 50,000 years, not 'billions of years'.


 
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Thanks that'
Awesome
 
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Did you read the creationist article because that was solid writing and solid logic in the race between the three articles that one is a winner x 3
We can deal with this unrelated subject after you address your previous incorrect assertions: there is no genetic evidence for evolution, and GULO is a problem for evolution because bats, guinea pigs and primates all have the same gene. Please show some intellectual integrity and support your assertions.
 
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I' sorry I might have missed that but ummm wow did you catch this video ... ouch ... Richard Dawkins is in too lol
We can deal with this change of topic after we deal with the three articles, which we can deal with after we deal with your confused statement about GULO, which we can deal with after we deal with my genetic evidence for evolution.
 
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There's a correction at the bottom.
Indeed. It does show the author doesn't know much about the subject, but the piece as a whole was not terrible. The last paragraph is ambiguous, but otherwise it was mostly well written.
 
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from here:

Views on evolution among the public and scientists

(according to this survey its actually 2%)
Thanks. And yes, it's 2% from the survey. (Which is of all kinds of scientists, not just geneticists, and only from American scientists, both of which will heavily skew the results toward more rejection of evolution.)
lets see. your claim is that we can know that the difference between human and chimp is the result of mutations.
Correct.
first: how do you know how the original genome was look like? for instance: if we have T in human, how do we know that the original base was A?
We don't know (although we can usually tell). All we have to know is what the differences between the two genomes should look like if they are the result of mutations, and compare that expectation with observation. Previously, you agreed that the comparison did show that accumulated mutations were responsible. Have you changed your mind?
 
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That literally had nothing to do with the comment you were responding to.
Not to mention that it exhibits a vast ignorance of the basics of evolution theory.
 
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We don't know (although we can usually tell). All we have to know is what the differences between the two genomes should look like if they are the result of mutations

but how we can predict how it should look like? say we take a gene which is share between human and chimp. if the difference between the two species is indeed the result of mutations (and not the original creation state) what we should find and why?
 
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but how we can predict how it should look like? say we take a gene which is share between human and chimp. if the difference between the two species is indeed the result of mutations (and not the original creation state) what we should find and why?
"Original creation state"??? What in the world do you mean by that?
 
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but how we can predict how it should look like? say we take a gene which is share between human and chimp. if the difference between the two species is indeed the result of mutations (and not the original creation state) what we should find and why?
It wouldn't really matter what it looks like - what would matter is how different they are to each other. If you wanted to know what it probably looked like, you'd have to involve more species and their copies of that gene, such as this hypothetical:

Species A sequence: actg-ttggtctc-cgtc
Species B sequence: actg-ttggtctc-ggtc
Species C sequence: actggttgctctc-ggtc
Species D sequence: agtg-ttgctctccggtc
Species E sequence: agtg-ttgctctccggtg

Outliers in Red - therefore:

Probable sequence: actg-ttgctctc-ggtc (**)

If I understand it, apart from being evidence for a common ancestor, some retroviruses we share with the other great apes in our DNA via our common ancestor have been reconstituted back to contagious pathogens using this method - we've even been able to see them reinfect new cells.

(**) - Not to scale.
 
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but how we can predict how it should look like? say we take a gene which is share between human and chimp. if the difference between the two species is indeed the result of mutations (and not the original creation state) what we should find and why?
We know that different kinds of mutations happen more often than others. For example, an A base changes to a G (and vice versa) more often than it changes to a C. Therefore, if genetic differences between species are the result of mutation, we should expect to find more cases where one species has an A and the other a G than cases where one has an A and the other a C. We don't have to know whether the A was the ancestral state or the G; all we have to do is count the differences. Similarly for other combinations, and other specific mutations -- we can build up an expected pattern of differences that is the signature of mutation. When we compare the actual DNA of humans and chimpanzees, lo and behold, what we find looks exactly like the pattern we expect from mutation.
 
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"Macroevolution" is used in scientific literature, although not very frequently. In evolutionary theory, the term usually means any evolution above the level of the species. There are debates about the extent to which different processes operate in microevolution and macroevolution. For example, if some lineages speciate more readily, what effect does that have on their evolutionary trajectories? I've also seen the word used more loosely in paleontology to describe long-term evolutionary trends.
 
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ok. one possible explanation (out of two that i can think of) is that those bases have a similar functional meaning, therefore its possible that the designer desinged those bases to change into more similar bases than to other kinds of bases. in such a way a new mutation has more chance to make no harm to the gene (unlike the other kinds of mutations). so if we see A in human and G in chimp it may be the result of design feature rather than mutation.
 
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Making up things is not a good idea in a science debate.

Support your assertions with data and evidence.
 
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