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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Human language, computer language and DNA "language"

  I am glad you put your third use of the word language in quotes. The first two are actual languages. The third is a metaphor.

  I have noticed all of your questions get answered but you ignore questions directed at you. Why?

  If our genome so optimal why are there plants with genomes 50 times larger ours? Is a Japonica 50 times as complex as a human?

  How about the protozoa known as Amoeba dubia? It has a genome more than 200 times bigger than a human!
  
  
  
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Priceless!
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Perhaps my problem is that I have no imagination. - Vidqun

  Your problem is a lack of knowledge combined with dogmatism.
  
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Cofty, hydrothermal vents would be the last place on earth where life would originate - Vidqun

  Actually it is an amazing environment that contains all the conditions and ingredients for life.

  As I said before, it probably one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.

  No not by a very long way. You are obviously not thinking about alkaline vents.

  Secondly, through diffusion in sea water, free molecules would disperse, rather than aggregate.

  No they wouldn't. Alkaline vents are made up of millions of tiny pores each a few microns lined with metallic catalysts.

  How would life form under such conditions, if it cannot be kickstarted in “perfect” conditions in a lab?

  There is no such thing as perfect conditions in the lab. Recreating the pressures, temperatures, PH gradients etc etc is a gigantic challenge. Progress is being made.
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Whatever the case, I am sure there's a very good reason for it. I'll sleep on it and read up on it tomorrow. The botanists might be able to explain it.

  They can't.

  How about the protozoa known as Amoeba dubia? It has a genome more than 200 times bigger than a human!
  
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have all somehow managed to assemble themselves

  Dissipative systems. No more mysterious than the vortex of water flowing down your sink drain.
  

  If the planet was covered with water to start off with, nowhere would molecules be able to concentrate to form life.

  Alkaline hydrothermal vents. Perfect environment for life to emerge from geochemistry. I am sure we are on the brink of discovering bacterial life elsewhere. We might have discovered Methanogens on Mars already.

  Life from life, etc.

  Says who?
  
  
  
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Vidqun - If our genome so optimal why are there plants with genomes 50 times larger ours? Is a Japonica 50 times as complex as a human?
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  The DNA, ..would follow the path of Universal Information.

  Why would it? Apart from your superstitious need for that to be true.
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  So also the DNA code in living cells needs a compiler and programmer.

  That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
  
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  cofty

  Only somebody who has never read a single thing about Hox genes could say that. Thanks for illustrating my point.