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It is nice knowing that you are fairly right about something. Evolution happens to be one of those topics in that category. The funny/sad part is running across people who still “don’t get it” and either are deluded or have let their misplaced skepticism get the better of them. I try unsuccessfully to hide my incredulity when people put their ignorance on display, it probably gets me in trouble as I have had these “you’re really saying that moments” with people who are in positions of authority and they are friends/respected peers.
Too bad, so sad; I’m getting way too old to varnish the truth for those who want to clutch the wizened pearls of their shoddy religions and spout nonsense.
Evidence from youtube, makes a concise movie about Evolution and Intelligent Design.
We’re missing parts of DNA that code for spiky penises and that inhibit brain development. It took sometime, 6 million years or so, but definitely worth the wait.
“In a paper published Thursday in Nature, the Stanford University researchers show the differences between humans and our nearest relative, the chimpanzee, are the result of DNA sequences lost since our divergence from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago.
Women of the world will be particularly grateful that among the ditched DNA is the penile spine enhancer, which gives chimpanzees spiky-spined penises.”
Evolution in action. Thank goodness we did take the love-dart route either.
“Kingsley [an author of the paper] says they are continuing to work through the lost sequences to identify links with other anatomical differences such as sweat glands, walking upright, s-shaped spines and skin changes.
He says the two sequences in DNA highlighted in the paper were lost sometime between when humans and chimps split from each other 6 million years ago and before humans and Neanderthals diverged about 600,000 years ago
“Both of the losses are also lost in the Neanderthal,” says Kingsley.
“The Neanderthal brain was already big and there is a lot of interest in whether Neanderthal and humans interbred – the loss of the penile spine was the anatomical change that would allow interbreeding.”
Kingsley says although the modern genome is evolving, our understanding of evolution will also change the way the genome continues to evolve.”
Well okay, maybe a little.
I do love movie time here at DWR, grab some salty snacks and enjoy.
Richard Dawkin’s latest book the Greatest Show on Earth (GSOE) is a great primer on Evolution and the important contributions Charles Darwin made to the field of biology.
I’m currently listening to the GSOE in my car, and I have the print copy fairly high up in my reading pile.
Some reviews are getting annoyed at Dawkins for taking shots at creationists, but others think that it really is not so bad.
I’m inclined to agree with Mr.Dawkins when he takes the odd jab at the rotten edifices of religion, no surprise there, but it is necessary to show exactly how wrong the religiously deluded are.
It has been great listen so far, and I would highly recommend reading the GSOE if you want to work on your evolutionary fundamentals or polish your arguments in defense of evolution.
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