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by IgoFan
Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:35 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

About 20 or more ERV's[sic] in common? Actually thanks for bringing that up. Because this is revealing a pattern of design. The more they have in common, the more patterns will be revealed between the two. Again you ignore the overwhelming implication of an ERV at the exact same chromosome location...
by IgoFan
Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:13 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

Find what funny? That Atheists are glorifying the work of the creator without even knowing it. Igo, I agree. I'd like to see some answers other than what has been provided. I am not a geneticist, and am trying to understand the info to the best of my ability. However, it is easy to tie a knot in a ...
by IgoFan
Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:13 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Question for evolutionists here ie touchingcloth, igofan etc
Replies: 27
Views: 6820

Re: Question for evolutionists here ie touchingcloth, igofan etc

What are your most convincing, favorite, or top evidences or arguements for macro evolution? Asking for the most convincing evidence for evolution is like asking which of the 100+ triangular sections of the Gateway Arch is the most important. A flaw in any one section and the entire structure colla...
by IgoFan
Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:09 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

A topic summary : humans and chimps share not one, but about 20 ERVs having the exact same corresponding position in their genomes. An ERV is a retrovirus that inserts its DNA at essentially random chromosome locations. Whether those ERVs are/were functional or not is immaterial. Humans and chimps ...
by IgoFan
Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:49 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

Please answer the following.. [... omitted list of questions irrelevant to the current issue ...] AFTER we resolve the absolutely key issue here, we can pursue your most important question from your list. But I can understand why you want to change the subject. Admitting the scientific evidence abo...
by IgoFan
Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:39 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

[... text of last post omitted ...] You're still not understanding how an overwhelmingly crucial conclusion from these articles destroys your argument. Do a million infections of a specific retrovirus. You'll have close to (more likely, exactly) a million different integration sites spread over dif...
by IgoFan
Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:30 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

Retroviral Gene Vectors Show Clear Target Preferences Your reference is evidence FOR , not against, common descent. The study found hundreds of different integration sites for each type of retrovirus targeting the same type of cells in rhesus monkeys. And the study, including those mentioned below,...
by IgoFan
Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:33 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

The point I'm making with the HIV virus is that it can infect both species separately. It's not an impossibility for viruses. It is also possible a few of the retroviruses are likely to infect both humans and apes at the same location. False. You're just making stuff up. The chance of " a few ...
by IgoFan
Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:29 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

What I'm seeing is that evolutionary biologists maintain that the pseudogenes, SINES, LINEs, and endogenous retroviruses shared among humans and the great apes provide persuasive evidence that these primates arose from a common lineage. The crux of this argument rests on the supposition that these ...
by IgoFan
Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:14 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

And it is entirely possible too that the virus selects very specific segments of the genome for that insertion. False. An ERV RANDOMLY inserts its DNA at any of MILLIONS of possible places along the host DNA. But a specific shared ERV is always on the SAME chromosome and at the SAME location in hum...
by IgoFan
Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:45 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

Regarding the banding mis-matching of chromosomes 4 and 17 between humans and chimps... Non-lethal inversions, and to a lesser extent translocations, of interior sections of chromosomes during cell division are relatively common. Scientists already know that just a few inversions and translocations...
by IgoFan
Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:42 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

The scientific hypothesis we're talking about here is that today's apes (yes, humans are apes) share a common ancestor, and specifically that the orangutan split off 1st from that common ancestor, followed by the gorilla, and finally the chimp split off from humans 6+ million years ago. The chromos...
by IgoFan
Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:35 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus
Replies: 238
Views: 52803

Re: Ardi - Ardipithecus ramidus

The matching of chromosome 2 is so much more than a "banding pattern" though. It contains telomeres (the code at the end of chromosomes) in the centre, and it has 2 centromeres - 1 either side of the central telomeres. And the telomeres in humans are unique. In comparison to primates, hum...
by IgoFan
Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:58 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Darwin’s Dilemma
Replies: 4
Views: 1375

Re: Darwin’s Dilemma

The video features Jonathan Wells. If his statements regarding the Cambrian Explosion are any indication, the video is worthless. Wells says the following regarding animal diversity just before and just after the Cambrian Explosion: From nothing, we have almost everything almost overnight, geologica...
by IgoFan
Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:42 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Live Science: The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising
Replies: 21
Views: 6457

Re: Live Science: The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising

Summarizing: I said I had to start somewhere, so I chose your simple well-defined statement about blind cave fish. I supplied multiple lines of independent evidence that your statement was incorrect or, at best , made no sense. You steadfastly claimed your statement was merely "unclear", w...