Originally posted by KneverKnight"In short, with that kind of protection from change, it is very difficult for mutations, of whatever kind, to gain a foothold. But extreme stress pushes cells beyond their capacity to produce protective proteins, and then mutation can occur.
It's not gradual, but sudden.
This is from a cell biologist.
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Pitt_Professors_Theory_Of_Evolution_Gets_Boost_From_Cell_Research.html
This revelation has enormous implications for the notion that organisms routinely change to adapt to the environment. Actually, Schwartz argues, it is the environment that knocks them off their equilibrium and as likely ultimately kills them as changes them. And so they are being rocked by the environment, not adapting to it."
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Proof, or further confounding?
Originally posted by FreakyKBH"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
"In short, with that kind of protection from change, it is very difficult for mutations, of whatever kind, to gain a foothold. But extreme stress pushes cells beyond their capacity to produce protective proteins, and then mutation can occur.
This revelation has enormous implications for the notion that organisms routinely change to adapt to the environm ...[text shortened]... ked by the environment, not adapting to it."
(Emphasis added)
Proof, or further confounding?
Originally posted by FreakyKBHFor me, the debate is over.
And the fundamental debate goes on: is matter everything (and thus, God), or is God everything (and thus, creator of matter)?
Sanity seems to reign in the schools up here, no worries about Creationism being snuck in and taught as a science.
If some people want to see something behind the scenes pulling strings, it's fine by me. That belief can't harm me and if it makes them happy, go for it. Life is short.
Peace.
Originally posted by KneverKnightLife is indeed short. A vapor, if you will.
For me, the debate is over.
Sanity seems to reign in the schools up here, no worries about Creationism being snuck in and taught as a science.
If some people want to see something behind the scenes pulling strings, it's fine by me. That belief can't harm me and if it makes them happy, go for it. Life is short.
Peace.
Ambivalence is a stage within an historical trend.
What if there is no basic reason that we "grow old" and die except that nature has decided that "smaller, faster, more mobile" communities is to its benefit? Nature seems to be telling us that we are built to live only long enough to secure our offspring.
If God designed this part of nature then to what purpose?
I rather think that our genetic brevity will be cured through technology in the next hundred years. Then we can REALLY mess up our nest here on earth.