Notice the contrast between BOC's curiosity about mutation rates which led to a great reply by Memphis and a link to further reading, and the dismissive comment by EQV.
I don't stand in awe of someone who tells me what happened 2 million years ago.
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Evolution is a Fact #9 - Less Chewing More Thinking
by cofty inif you put your fingers on the side of your head, just above your ears, and move your jaw you will be able to feel your temporalis muscles doing their thing.. compared to our primate cousins our temporalis muscles are puny - approximately one eighth the size.
the reason for the difference is a mutation of the myh16 gene in humans that produces a protein called myosin heavy chain 16. in primates like the gorilla this protein produces the powerful chewing pressure of the jaw.. our closest hominid relative, the chimpanzee have an intact myh16 gene.
since the rate of mutation can be determined, hansell stedman and his team at the university of pennsylvania have calculated that the mutation that disabled the gene in our line happened between 2.1 and 2.7 million years ago.. the large temporalis muscle has to anchor to very thick and strong skull bones.
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Evolution is a Fact #9 - Less Chewing More Thinking
by cofty inif you put your fingers on the side of your head, just above your ears, and move your jaw you will be able to feel your temporalis muscles doing their thing.. compared to our primate cousins our temporalis muscles are puny - approximately one eighth the size.
the reason for the difference is a mutation of the myh16 gene in humans that produces a protein called myosin heavy chain 16. in primates like the gorilla this protein produces the powerful chewing pressure of the jaw.. our closest hominid relative, the chimpanzee have an intact myh16 gene.
since the rate of mutation can be determined, hansell stedman and his team at the university of pennsylvania have calculated that the mutation that disabled the gene in our line happened between 2.1 and 2.7 million years ago.. the large temporalis muscle has to anchor to very thick and strong skull bones.
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'...Hansell Stedman and his team at the University of Pennsylvania have calculated that the mutation that disabled the gene in our line happened between 2.1 and 2.7 million years ago...'
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Live Beatles concert compared to JW convention.
by Esse quam videri inbeatles concert in 1963. we've all seen the insane girls screaming in the audience.
what many miss is the odd one that looks like they couldn't stand it.
hands over ears.
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Beatles concert in 1963. We've all seen the insane girls screaming in the audience. What many miss is the odd one that looks like they couldn't stand it. Hands over ears. This is what most here would be doing at a JW convention. -
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My Bthel Experince Part 19 The Last Chapter..(really) Bethel Overseers
by new boy inthere were other people who either killed themselves or tried to kill themselves while they were at "the house of god.
one person who did kill himself was richard wheelock, press room overseer ......he jumped out of a window at the watchtower farm one day.
it seemed, he was never quite the same after his wife "willy" died.
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stan livedeath '...thank god i never went to bethell lol...'
Me too. Thank God I never went to Bethel either.
Thank God.
THANK-YOU GOD !!!
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WT Study 1/10/16 Encouraging Child Baptism And More Nonsense
by JW_Rogue ini've noticed that each wt lesson really only has one or two points they want remembered.
normally they build up to these by about the third subheading.
this week's lesson though was different, the main point was insidiously made through an experience in the first paragraph:.
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OFS ... w88 3/15 p. 15 pars. 21-22 Trust in Jehovah Leads to Dedication and Baptism ***
Why, attending the Pioneer Service School in the Bahamas recently was a ten-year-old baptized girl, the daughter of two full-time ministers!or rather
WHY, attending the Pioneer Service School in the Bahamas recently was a ten-year-old baptized girl, the daughter of two full-time ministers??????????????
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To me this seams like more than a coincidence ...
by Greybeard insorry if this has been discussed before.... for a few days now, this question has been going through my mind.
what was the date the governing body took the sole role of the faithful and discreet slave and how close was it to the end of the mayan calendar in december of 2012?
i looked it up on jwfactes.com and sure enough, checkout the date on this article:.
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In 1965 the city of New York started putting fluoride in the drinking water. Mildly crazy statements started appearing in the WT publications with greater emphasis on 1975 and Armageddon. Since then the WT has made crazier statements culminating in the supremely crazy overlapping generations, 7 knuckleheads are the only channel between God and man [except for a brief moment during the ARC] etc etc etc.
Fluoride accumulates.
Don't tell me that's just a coincidence.
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Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy
by cofty ini intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.
there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.
there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.
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cofty '...It is impossible for this to happen by chance - really, really impossible. Therefore evolution is true...'
Now that your so sure something is impossible, even really, really impossible, is there anything that you are so sure is possible, even really, really possible? Oh yeah right, evolution.
Teacher to his class, " I want you all to know that there is nothing that is absolutely certain." Student puts up his hand. " Yes Bobby " says teach. Bobby asks, " Are you sure of that?" Teacher replies, " Absolutely".
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GB members quotes
by Gorbatchov infor a future project i'm searching for remarkable quotes of current and former gb members.. i've two personal, validated quotes:.
"sprechen sie deutsch?
" "ah, ein bisschen!
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JW GoneBad 28 minutes ago
GB blockhead Lett:
'There is more evidence confirming the existence of the Kingdom than the evidence that would convince us that there is gravity, electricity and wind!Gravity and electricity, yes, everyone knows that, but wind? I don't think so!
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The new service meeting
by John Aquila ini wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.
it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.
its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.
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The new service meeting
by John Aquila ini wanted to relate an experience that happened this morning.
it is regarding the new format for the meeting on thursdays in my area.
its not word for word but im summarizing what i heard, the best i can remember.
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'...One of the older sisters even confessed that she was starting to feel regrets and was having nightmares that perhaps she made a big mistake when she was a young girl. She divorced her husband in 1976 because she felt he was an apostate for saying the Watchtower organization was a group of false prophets because the end didn’t come in 1975. She never found a brother who was interested in marriage and remained single the rest of her life. Her ex-husband went on to get married, have children, and grandchildren, and a great life, and the end of the wicked system never came...'.
Very, very happy to hear that !!!
