If Evolution is true, how did DNA code itself

Mott the Hoople said:
I appreciate the defense but really these are not my ideas. I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants. I am simply pointing out that they either don't understand either this theory or science in general.

As someone who actually studied biology and has an advanced education and a degree in the science who understands not only that evolution is a foundational concept but also the myriad ways in which it's applied and how many, if not most, branches of applied biology are application of evolutionary theory you kinda just roll your eyes at these arguments by lay people.

The strength of evolutionary theory, as with any scientific theory, is that it not only based upon empirical fact but that it can be broadly applied to make predictions that can be independently verified and can be adapted as new evidence is discovered. Evolution is probably the single most scrutinized scientific theory in the history of science and as time has gone on discoveries such as the laws of genetics, the structure and function of Nucleic acids, the mechanisms of protein synthesis, etc., have only strengthened its understanding, use and applicability.

So that's the problem it's detractors have. As long as this theory remains tremendously useful to scientist and a another model has not been advanced that can replace it, then science will continue to use it to advance our knowledge of the mechanisms of speciation.
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Evolution exists; because nature abhors a vacuum. :D
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I appreciate the defense but really these are not my ideas. I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants. I am simply pointing out that they either don't understand either this theory or science in general.

As someone who actually studied biology and has an advanced education and a degree in the science who understands not only that evolution is a foundational concept but also the myriad ways in which it's applied and how many, if not most, branches of applied biology are application of evolutionary theory you kinda just roll your eyes at these arguments by lay people.

The strength of evolutionary theory, as with any scientific theory, is that it not only based upon empirical fact but that it can be broadly applied to make predictions that can be independently verified and can be adapted as new evidence is discovered. Evolution is probably the single most scrutinized scientific theory in the history of science and as time has gone on discoveries such as the laws of genetics, the structure and function of Nucleic acids, the mechanisms of protein synthesis, etc., have only strengthened its understanding, use and applicability.

So that's the problem it's detractors have. As long as this theory remains tremendously useful to scientist and a another model has not been advanced that can replace it, then science will continue to use it to advance our knowledge of the mechanisms of speciation.
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Bravo
 
Darth Omar said:
What are you talking about?

Where have I made such claims?
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What we have been talking about, senile moron.


Dick from the Internet said:
What is not falsifiable are the claims of cowardly creationists who say that evolution is limited to changes within "kind" or to within some undefined limit. They claim they accept evolution but they obviously reject the "theory of evolution" based on these limits. But they are not offering any kind of coherent alternative explanation of the facts explained by the theory of evolution. It's obvious that your acceptance of evolution is based more on faith than any science.
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USFREEDOM911 said:
Correct

Example:
Having a third arm could prove very beneficial.
If a small percentage of people being born had a third arm and society found it to be acceptable and a positive thing, this would mean that those with a third arm would probably find it easier to propagate and thereby passing on their mutation.
If such a thing was rejected by society, then their chances of passing on the change would be lessened.

There have been some Scifi movies that touch on this.
Waterworld being one of them.
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Are we supposed to give this idiot a prize because he thinks he accepts the theory?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I appreciate the defense but really these are not my ideas. I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants. I am simply pointing out that they either don't understand either this theory or science in general.

As someone who actually studied biology and has an advanced education and a degree in the science who understands not only that evolution is a foundational concept but also the myriad ways in which it's applied and how many, if not most, branches of applied biology are application of evolutionary theory you kinda just roll your eyes at these arguments by lay people.

The strength of evolutionary theory, as with any scientific theory, is that it not only based upon empirical fact but that it can be broadly applied to make predictions that can be independently verified and can be adapted as new evidence is discovered. Evolution is probably the single most scrutinized scientific theory in the history of science and as time has gone on discoveries such as the laws of genetics, the structure and function of Nucleic acids, the mechanisms of protein synthesis, etc., have only strengthened its understanding, use and applicability.

So that's the problem it's detractors have. As long as this theory remains tremendously useful to scientist and a another model has not been advanced that can replace it, then science will continue to use it to advance our knowledge of the mechanisms of speciation.
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Absolutely. Just go to any well utilized database like pubmed and do a word search. Plug in evolution and be flooded with thousands of finds in seconds. Put in intelligent design or jebus and get zip.

It's foundational. I'm just a lawyer, but my wife is a professor of neuroscience at a major university. My dad is a PhD nuclear physicist who worked on everything from Gemini 9 and 10 to mucho clandestine shit. Wife's dad Harvard MBA. All by way of saying my niche isn't exactly generally representative. But I will offer almost, and to a man and woman, nobody I know at all, in any discipline, regards evolution as invalid. In fact, of the dozens of scientists with whom I am acquainted from all of the most august educational institutions on earth, all would consider denial of evolution and god forbid, embrace of ID or creationism a disqualification for any employment in biological sciences. Just being honest.

If you deny evolution you are flat out ignorant. And I can't say that for climate change, but very nearly can.
 
Micawber said:
Absolutely. Just go to any well utilized database like pubmed and do a word search. Plug in evolution and be flooded with thousands of finds in seconds. Put in intelligent design or jebus and get zip.

It's foundational. I'm just a lawyer, but my wife is a professor of neuroscience at a major university. My dad is a PhD nuclear physicist who worked on everything from Gemini 9 and 10 to mucho clandestine shit. Wife's dad Harvard MBA. All by way of saying my niche isn't exactly generally representative. But I will offer almost, and to a man and woman, nobody I know at all, in any discipline, regards evolution as invalid. In fact, of the dozens of scientists with whom I am acquainted from all of the most august educational institutions on earth, all would consider denial of evolution and god forbid, embrace of ID or creationism a disqualification for any employment in biological sciences. Just being honest.

If you deny evolution you are flat out ignorant. And I can't say that for climate change, but very nearly can.
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Google returned 8,600,000 finds on intelligent design. That said, what scares you about intelligent designers?

https://www.google.com/search?newwi...c.1.64.serp..16.5.557...0i22i30k1.g6kqCBEeJi8

So what scares you about the truth
 
Micawber said:
Absolutely. Just go to any well utilized database like pubmed and do a word search. Plug in evolution and be flooded with thousands of finds in seconds. Put in intelligent design or jebus and get zip.

It's foundational. I'm just a lawyer, but my wife is a professor of neuroscience at a major university. My dad is a PhD nuclear physicist who worked on everything from Gemini 9 and 10 to mucho clandestine shit. Wife's dad Harvard MBA. All by way of saying my niche isn't exactly generally representative. But I will offer almost, and to a man and woman, nobody I know at all, in any discipline, regards evolution as invalid. In fact, of the dozens of scientists with whom I am acquainted from all of the most august educational institutions on earth, all would consider denial of evolution and god forbid, embrace of ID or creationism a disqualification for any employment in biological sciences. Just being honest.

If you deny evolution you are flat out ignorant. And I can't say that for climate change, but very nearly can.
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ah...you should have fun here then. Like shooting fish in a barrel. I'm a mere master of science but I work in garbage. Which means I'm quite at home here. :)
 
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