I get that Thief calls genesis as "having the earmarks of a science experiment"...
But that anybody would agree...? :confused:
What about genesis reads like an account of a science experiment? What science experiment sounds even remotly like the genesis account?
In what world, in what universe...
No, not really.
I mean, I used to be a christian the major parts of my life, so I still have this kind of reflex, that I sometimes think "Oh, crap, if only god could help me", when I'm in a difficulat situation...
But I don't honestly believe it anymore. Usually, when I get thoughts like this...
Yes and no.
We have forced ourselves into living under these conditions, but originally humans were also very tribal animals that lived in rather small groups.
There certainly are benefits to living in such huge groups as we have now, and that's why we eventually adapted to them. But this wasn't...
You are really, really underestimating what chimps (and other primates) can do!
They have extremly high problem solving skills. And they do live in societies and groups (I'm not sure what you mean with "colonies" though).
They evolved from our more ape-like ancestors.
Which is why these traits...
No, heaven... it's the essence of... things we choose.
In addition to turn... the things we have picked.
How else eat vegateble?.... how else to drink?
Your giraffe... of course it is green.
Nonono...
Science has CLEARLY disproven many, many things in the bible!
At least when you just look at what the bible actually says, and not what you interpret into it.
I mean, I'm fine with you interpreting away, until you can match everything to reality somehow, but I can do that with "The...
You wouldn't?
Really?
If two chromosomes would fuse, then we would expect the things that we usually find at the ends of the chromosomes in the center of the new one. Right?
So, sure, that's something we would expect, if that model was correct.
And we did find exactly that! We also found two...
We are not talking about genes here, we are talking about entire chromosomes.
And yes, we know that with an extreme amount of certainty.
Because chromosomes have markers, at their ends (telomeres) and at their centers (centromeres).
So, if two fuse you would expect there to be two centromeres...
Ahm... it's the other way around.
The two chromosomes we still see in chimps are fused in humans. Humans have LESS chromosomes than chimps, because one of ours is two fused of theirs.
Sure, but the future generations will be able to observe entirely different things, which they will then say "It's special that we can see this now! How wonderfull that we live TODAY!"
And a past generation, who has seen many wonderfull things that have now changed and are invisible to us, have...
But there is also another point he makes (although not sure if he makes it in the same speech):
We can't know, if there already is something which we might have picked up and observed, if we lived earlier. In the same way, that future generations (or life-forms, not necessarily on this planet)...
Well, given that we can temper different aspects of our awareness, by manipulating the brain, the conclusion that the mind is part of the brain is extremly likely.
It's extremly unlikely, that, despide our awareness being subject to corruption of the brain, suddenly when our brain dies, our...
I think you still don't exactly understand what I'm trying to say.
Yes, variation comes from mutation and recombination. That's true.
But imagine you have a (completly fictional, just for demonstration) animal-species with ceveral alleels for fur-color.
Brown, yellow, white, green, blue, pink...
Oh, crap, you lured me in again!
I again forgot that you can't make any coherent point.
But your comments are sometimes so intreaguingly flawed, that I can't help but answer.
So, let me try it to speak in your language:
*cough*
Have you ever seen the banana... haven't you?
The big picture...
He first said that we are still primates. Primates is a taxonomic order.
Then he said that we are pretty unique because there aren't any other species from the genus homo left. Homo is a genus. A sub-category of order.
So... how did he contradict himself?
Appologize, my wording wasn't that clear.
Yes, if "fitness" is ment in the sense of reproductive capabilitiy, then in artificial selection, you don't select against fitness, because the criteria by which you select will become the fitness-criteria.
I was more refering to pheno- and genotypes...
Sure, but as you say, this is the result of cross-breeding and artificial selection.
Of course, if you artifically select you get more variation than you would just in nature, because there you have natural selection, which eliminates variation that have a negative effect on the fitness.
But...