Evidence for God from Science

Very good explanation. Excellent! Now let's put it into practice. In recent years, the genomes of hundreds of species have been sequenced, and many more species have at least some genes sequenced. What's more, this information is freely available on the internet. This allows you to present direct e...

Very good explanation. Excellent! Now let's put it into practice. In recent years, the genomes of hundreds of species have been sequenced, and many more species have at least some genes sequenced. What's more, this information is freely available on the internet. This allows you to present direct e...

Genes are composed of codons. Three base pairs comprise one codon, and each codon specifies one amino acid. However, multiple codons can encode the exact same amino acid. Thus, it is possible to have mutations within a gene that do not affect the amino acid sequence of the protein the gene encodes....

Evolution of body plans (complex function) has basically terminated with the result of homo sapien (the final "terminal" product) rendering subsequent evolution no more. This seems presumptuous. How can you know that we are the end result of evolution and not just another branch that came...

Interesting...

Before we go any further, I want to make sure I understand your front loading idea. Are you saying that God (or an intelligent designer) created genes that are presently useless to the host organism, but will one day be useful? First off I am not proposing a mechanism, that would be best handled by...

From the paper you linked to: It is possible that our assays were not able to detect dramatic phenotypes that under a different setting, for instance, outside the controlled laboratory setting, would become evident. Moreover, possible phenotypes might become evident only on a longer timescale, such...

I agree that putting this type of animal back to its "optimum" habitat would be unrealistic after a knockout experiment has been performed. But more realistic studies with Mice have shown exactly this, large regions of coding genes (which had other coding potential) were removed, tests we...

because there is no way to simulate all of the stresses that an organism in the wild would encounter If a gene is involved in some type of stress response, or metabolism of an unusual food source, then deletion of that gene may not give a phenotype in the lab. This does not imply that the gene is u...

I think Bgood, you are putting words in the authors mouth. ie: What the scientist means in his quote is that there are analogous genes in higher organisms Even so, if they are mearly "analagous" there is no way for you to show that as opposed to the same pattern genes utilized later on. He...

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For starters: Trichoplax adhaerens barely qualifies as an animal. About 1 millimeter long and covered with cilia, this flat marine organism lacks a stomach, muscles, nerves, and gonads, even a head. It glides along like an amoeba, its lower layer of cells releasing enzymes that digest algae beneath ...

The many devout Christians I'm talking about believe God is powerful enough to create a universe sufficient to produce us according to His laws of physics. Pretending that those many people don't exist doesn't make them go away. How sad that only now do they find out from you that they're not reall...

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Thanks for bringing this up Bgood. See this is the problem, genes which have no adaptive significance whatsoever in the earliest of life forms, functions that we have supposedly "evolved" via Darwinian Evolution were already there from the beginning. This gets to the core of topics such a...