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Evolution is a Fact #11 - Tiktaalik

by cofty in

one of the biggest gulfs that life has had to cross was the transition from sea to dry land.. fish have conical shaped heads, reptiles have flat heads.

fish have no necks; their heads are attached to their shoulders by a series of bony plates.

land-dwelling animals all have necks; their heads can move independently of their shoulders.

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" ... Pops, tell us again about great, great, great Grandpa Tiktaalik..."

"... Well, like I said, when Grandpa Tiktaalik was growing up it was a fish-eat-fish world. Now even though Grandpa Tiktaalik and all his relatives were pretty big boys themselves, and even though they did their share of eatin' smaller fish, it seems Grandpa and his cousins were gettin' ate a little too regular. Now the customary plan, when being chased by a predator, was to swim like hell. That didn't always work. Some figured they would find hidin' places to keep safe. That only works until you get hungry and have to come out for somethin' to eat. When they did.... well.... they got ate. Seems Grandpa Tiktaalik finally put 2 and 2 together and said to himself.

'If them predators live in water and chase us in water and eat us in water it seems I should be removing the one thing from the equation that makes that possible. The water. I got to get outta this here water.'

So he figured because he couldn't live outside of that thar water the way his body was designed-and-all that he would have to re-design his body. And that's what he commenced to do. He re-designed himself so he could live outside of that thar water and away from them big predators..".

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Evolution is a Fact #11 - Tiktaalik

by cofty in

one of the biggest gulfs that life has had to cross was the transition from sea to dry land.. fish have conical shaped heads, reptiles have flat heads.

fish have no necks; their heads are attached to their shoulders by a series of bony plates.

land-dwelling animals all have necks; their heads can move independently of their shoulders.

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' Well I obviously can't keep living in this here water and still survive. What to do. What to do. Hey, wait, what is that over yonder? Looks like no water. Maybe I could sashay over there and survive. But wait. This here body of mine lives in this here water just fine. If I'm going to live on that rock with no water I better start rearranging myself. Yessiree Bob. Tiktaalik, you is one smart reptile.'

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Evolution is a Fact #11 - Tiktaalik

by cofty in

one of the biggest gulfs that life has had to cross was the transition from sea to dry land.. fish have conical shaped heads, reptiles have flat heads.

fish have no necks; their heads are attached to their shoulders by a series of bony plates.

land-dwelling animals all have necks; their heads can move independently of their shoulders.

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' ...These sound like insurmountable problems, but if evolution is true there must have been creatures that made the leap successfully. In 2004 Neil Shubin and his team set themselves the challenge of finding exactly this transitional fossil....
In the end it took four expeditions to Ellesmere Island over a period of six years to find what they were looking for, but when they did it exceeded all expectations. It would hardly be possible to make up a fossil more perfect as a transition between fish and land-living animals than Tiktaalik... They knew that the transition from fish to land happened 375 million years ago. They knew where rocks of this age were to be found and they went to that place and found precisely what they predicted must exist..."

A fossil that proves, overwhelmingly, the evolutionary transition from sea to land forms. Wow. Imagine that. Of course there's always going to be some peons that don't accept this amazing body of evidence. Massive.

And that critter Tiktaalik.

'...Tiktaalik stumbled on an alternative – get out the water...'

What a forward thinker that Tiktaalik. " If I'm gonna survive I gotta git outa this here water. Yessiree Bob."

Mountains of evidence. Mountains.

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Evolution is a Fact #9 - Less Chewing More Thinking

by cofty in

if 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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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 in

if 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...'

Are they sure it wasn't between 1.8 and 3.3 million years ago? Oh, he had a team working on it. In that case they must be right.

Live Beatles concert compared to JW convention.

by Esse quam videri in

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.

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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 in

there 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 in

i'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 in

jw
friends

sorry 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 in

i 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".