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Dr Adequate
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Message 61 of 752 (566268)
06-23-2010 10:56 PM
Reply to: Message 51 by ICANT
06-23-2010 3:40 PM


Re: Question
How does the mutation or natural selection produce new information?
By producing new information.
This is the reason why people wanted you to be more precise in your definition.
Do you have an empirical example of a code or language that occurs naturally?
Yeah, the human genome.
I can beg the question just as much as you can. Bite me.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 62 of 752 (566271)
06-23-2010 10:59 PM
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06-23-2010 2:05 PM


Re: Question
My question was where does all this information come from?
If evolution produces this information, how does it produce it?
By selection and drift acting on random mutations, recombination, lateral gene transfer, and so forth.
You may disagree with the answer that scientists give to your question, but don't go around pretending that you don't know what their answer is. You know perfectly well.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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Message 63 of 752 (566272)
06-23-2010 11:03 PM
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06-23-2010 2:05 PM


Re: Question
Is there anyway that information can begin to exist without being created?
Well, that depends what you mean by "created".
If you mean "caused to begin to exist", then the answer is NO.
If you mean "poofed into existence out of nothing by an invisible magical fairy in the sky who doesn't actually exist", then the answer is YES.

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Message 64 of 752 (566276)
06-23-2010 11:30 PM
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06-23-2010 3:47 PM


Re: Question
Hi Coragyps,
Coragyps writes:
Yup. The DNA in the nuclei of the cells (excluding red blood cells) in my body. You have a couple of trillion examples of your own.
My parents produced my DNA I don't know where you got yours from.
I would assume your parents.
God Bless,

"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."

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Message 65 of 752 (566280)
06-24-2010 12:12 AM
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06-22-2010 3:29 PM


Re: Question
I take information to be a message with a sender that is responsible for the information and a receiver.
The information is any message the sender chooses to compose.
I know this won't meet your approval but so what?
Actually, I'm delighted with that definition. It's more than I've ever gotten out of any other creo. Of course, it conclusively refutes your claim that it takes information to make DNA, or even that DNA contains information. DNA came into existence through a natural combination of various molecules. The genetic material in DNA changes over time because of errors in the replication process and mutations. Thus, there is no sender or receiver.
QED.
Any other toughies?
Edited by subbie, : Just cuz

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Dr Adequate
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Message 66 of 752 (566292)
06-24-2010 2:10 AM
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06-23-2010 11:30 PM


Re: Question
My parents produced my DNA I don't know where you got yours from.
You are to my knowledge the first creationist honest enough to admit that information comes from natural causes rather than an invisible fairy who lives in the sky.
I salute you.

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Message 67 of 752 (566308)
06-24-2010 6:43 AM
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06-23-2010 3:32 PM


Re: Question
What difference does it make what is the sender?
What difference does it make what is the receiver?
What difference does it make what the message is?
Er, it's your definition, if you don't know what these things are with respect to biological systems, how can we apply it to them?
Information as we know it comes from a mind.
Bullshit. There's information all around us that doesn't come from minds. Look out the window, up at the sky - do you really think you receive no information about the weather? No information about the time of day?

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Message 68 of 752 (567164)
06-29-2010 8:42 PM
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06-20-2010 2:51 AM


I'd just like to know how the seeds that grow into all sorts of plants and trees evolved. What came first, the seed or the tree/plant?
(sorry if its already been asked, im coming in late)

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Message 69 of 752 (567166)
06-29-2010 8:48 PM
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06-29-2010 8:42 PM


What came first, the seed or the tree/plant?
The seed, which grew from a plant that itself originally grew from a spore, some time during the Devonian era.
As seeds are a more effective way to disperse offspring than spores, it's not surprising that the descendants of this first organism came to dominate the kingdom of plants. But plants which reproduce by spores instead of seeds are still with us, and they represent the descendants of some of the first terrestrial, vascular plants.

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Message 70 of 752 (567168)
06-29-2010 9:01 PM
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06-29-2010 8:48 PM


crashfrog writes:
The seed, which grew from a plant that itself originally grew from a spore, some time during the Devonian era.
so the seed came first and it grew from a plant which grew from a spore!
That makes no sense at all. If the seed grows from a plant, then the plant came first
then again, the plant came from a spore so the spore came first....hence a spore produced a plant which produced seed.
So that takes us to the spore..... how did the spore evolve and from what?

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Message 71 of 752 (567170)
06-29-2010 9:19 PM
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06-29-2010 9:01 PM


That makes no sense at all. If the seed grows from a plant, then the plant came first
If you like. Sure, the plant came first.
So that takes us to the spore...
Right, the spore which came from a spore-bearing plant, like today's ferns. What did ferns evolve from? The first terrestrial, vascular plants. What did those evolve from? Vascular plants that grew in the sea, like seaweeds. What did those evolve from? Sea algaes that lived in multicellular colonies.
What did those evolve from? Sea algaes that lived unicellularly. Those? Cyanobacteria. (I'm skipping over a lot of steps and about half a billion years.) Cyanobacteria evolved from chemosynthetic bacteria living at sea floor vents, probably. Those evolved from some of the first living things, ever. That takes us all the way back to LUCA, the cenacestor, the organism who was the common ancestor of all species of life on Earth, approximately 3.8 billion years before the present day.
how did the spore evolve and from what?
If the sense you're getting is that I'm playing a game of this evolved from that, and that from this other, and that from something yet older.... and so on, and you're wondering "ok but where does that all end?", well, it ends at the beginning - with the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), because all living things on Earth are descended, ultimately, from a single living organism that lived almost 4 billion years ago.
It's pretty fuckin' sweet, if you ask me.

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Message 72 of 752 (567179)
06-29-2010 11:06 PM
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06-29-2010 9:01 PM


so the seed came first and it grew from a plant which grew from a spore!
That makes no sense at all. If the seed grows from a plant, then the plant came first
then again, the plant came from a spore so the spore came first....hence a spore produced a plant which produced seed.
So that takes us to the spore..... how did the spore evolve and from what?
You appear to be reasoning that this occurred in 1 generation.
This occurred over millions of years, thousands, if not millions of generations. Evolution does not occur as, the fundie creos try to reason that it has to occur at once, but in stages taking numerous generations. The spore plant didn't suddenly produce a seed plant, but over generations the spore bearing plants became seed plants.

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Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

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Message 73 of 752 (567187)
06-30-2010 12:23 AM
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06-29-2010 9:01 PM


so the seed came first and it grew from a plant which grew from a spore!
That makes no sense at all. If the seed grows from a plant, then the plant came first
then again, the plant came from a spore so the spore came first....hence a spore produced a plant which produced seed.
So that takes us to the spore..... how did the spore evolve and from what?
Thousands of years ago no one spoke french. Now there are millions of people who speak french. How could this happen? Who did the first french speaker talk to?
Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

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Tram law
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Message 74 of 752 (574977)
08-18-2010 4:20 PM


Does DNA disprove evolution?
If it can't show that we have a common ancestor?
If it can't be mapped all the way back to the time when life first began?
What is the DNA evidence to support or disprove evolution?

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Message 75 of 752 (574983)
08-18-2010 4:31 PM
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08-18-2010 4:20 PM


Tram law writes:
Does DNA disprove evolution?
No, in fact it is strong evidence for it.
If it can't show that we have a common ancestor?
But it does show that. Check out ERV's or human chromosome 2 (I'm assuming you're talking about humans and other apes here).
f it can't be mapped all the way back to the time when life first began?
What do you mean with this?
What is the DNA evidence to support or disprove evolution?
Plenty, start here

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