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  1. painted wolf

    Race just another Social construct ?

    Race, as it is applied to humans, is a social construct. It's a very powerful one, however, and can't be ignored or downplayed. The closest you can hope to get in humans is haplogroups either Mitochondrial (maternal) or Y Chromosomal (paternal). Simply having dark skin or having close...
  2. painted wolf

    [THOUGHT EXPERIMENT] One day, evolution is proven false: then what happens?

    From a purely thought experiment level... We would be in a lot of trouble. Not only would our understanding of just about every aspect of biology be damaged to the point of uselessness, but a large part of modern medicine and food production would be as well. We use evolutionary theory in our...
  3. painted wolf

    Non-Darwinian evolution, the new synthesis?

    Meh... horizontal gene transfer, symbiogenesis, whole genome doubling and natural genetic engineering have all been accepted into neo-Darwinian/modern synthesis evolution already. Sure, the events themselves aren't "darwinian" (by that token no mutation is, Darwin didn't understand the...
  4. painted wolf

    Coptic Reference to Wife of Jesus

    I love the growing body of knowledge about the early diversity of the Christian religion. It's fascinating how this small cult grew and evolved over time to become the religion it is today. If nothing else it provides some evidence that what modern Gnosic and Coptic Christians believe has a...
  5. painted wolf

    Global Warming | Fact or Fiction?

    Adding an olive with a toothpick to a turd sandwich, does not stop it from being a turd sandwich. The opportunities can not compensate for the misfortunes/challenges. wa:do
  6. painted wolf

    Challenge to Darwinian natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution

    Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been... you wouldn't propose that because of QM we don't need the theory of evolution and it's thus invalid. No more than you would do the same with QM and Chemistry. Allele frequencies change with each generation... in some species this takes a...
  7. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    Same with chloroplasts... and I think another recent endosymbiotic relationship was observed (in the wild or in the lab I can't remember which), but I'd have to hunt down the references on that. Ohhh, I hadn't heard that one... interesting idea. Talk about an arms race gone amok...
  8. painted wolf

    Challenge to Darwinian natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution

    You can't have either without quantum physics either, but that's neither here nor there. You wouldn't claim that quantum physics is more important to evolution than natural selection or self organization. Actually, it's more proper to say that evolution is a change in allele frequencies in...
  9. painted wolf

    Challenge to Darwinian natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution

    Yes, and that's because of the nature of self organization inherent in DNA. sometimes... frame shifts can also be caused by glitches in the replication process. Thus it's fully within the system. again, it's part of how DNA is organized and the chemistry behind it. Self organization only...
  10. painted wolf

    Challenge to Darwinian natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution

    But mutations are the result of the faulty nature of the "self organization" of molecules. The two parts work in harmony not in an adversarial way. wa:do
  11. painted wolf

    Challenge to Darwinian natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution

    I don't see how this challenges evolution... :shrug: It does help inform how the first self replicating molecules would form and so on, but it doesn't remove the actions of inheritance and selection. the influence of positive (and negative) feedback loops are part of modern evolutionary theory...
  12. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    Plants are classified by a variety of methods. Morphology is still the most common but genetics using various genes (such as chloroplast sequences) is also standard now and is being used to augment and clarify the morphological phylogeny. wa:do
  13. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    Chemical, genetic and morphological... how important is a cell wall, for example. wa:do
  14. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    LoL... if only we stopped trying to figure things out and let well enough alone. Wait...Then I'd be out of a future job! :sad4: wa:do
  15. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    Controversially... there is a lot of debate as to where to draw the phylum line dividing plants and green algae. Enough that in most plylogenies/cladograms they are considered the "sister group" to "the plants". This one I will totally grant you. These guys are the most basal of the "plants"...
  16. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    As far as I know.... No algae are part of the plant kingdom. wa:do
  17. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    Yes, but if one insists on "biblical kinds" then you can only go by the "kinds" listed in the Bible. You should not "add to" nor "remove from" scripture. ;) wa:do
  18. painted wolf

    Creationist objections to plant evolution?

    So would you say then that there are three "kinds" of plants? Grass, herb and tree. wa:do
  19. painted wolf

    A god comes to you, but looks like a different god?

    Most of the above. I've talked with Grandfather in dreams and visions and I've tangentially experienced his influence in moments of my day to day life. wa:do
  20. painted wolf

    A god comes to you, but looks like a different god?

    Can't say that this has ever happened to me. Grandfather Coyote has appeared to me several times and none of those times has he ever looked the same... but I always knew who he was. wa:do
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