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    Mankind still evolving

    Really you think so. I'll be sure to inform my PI. The sequence is not found in mice in nature. However mice are perfectly capable of naturally transcribing and translating the sequence to produce the protein it encodes. Then stop. You have not explaned. You keep claiming the ability to...
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    Mankind still evolving

    Of course I am reading what you wrote. "it is the sequence that is unnatural" is a direct quite from you. You're claiming that humans being involved with evoultion is something new. It is not; we've been doing it for thousands of years. The technology you're talking about has been around for...
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    Mankind still evolving

    Hmm.. your the one who has brought up sequencing and cloning. The original topic the ability to take a gene from one organism and put into another, which we've been doing for three decades. Hardly a new era. Don't argue then. No one's forcing you. The sequence is not unnatural. It exists...
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    Mankind still evolving

    Yes I'm being serious. Which nucleotides of this gene don't exists in mice? Which aminio acids of the protein don't exists in mice? Just because the gene didn't evolve in mice, doesn't mean that it couldn't. Why do you keep referring to evolution making choices as if it were a being with a...
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    Mankind still evolving

    Which part of the fluorescent gene is not found in mice - which nucleotide? Which part of the protein it encodes is not found in mice - which amino acid? At the molecular level what is so special about this gene that makes it unnatural in mice? If the molecules that made it up were foreign to...
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    Mankind still evolving

    I could have sworn both a mouse and a jellyfish were naturally occuring creatures. Since the jellyfish and the mice have a common ancestor how can it be impossible for the gene to evolve in one but not the other. The enzymes we use to splice and ligate the gene are all natural as well. I think...
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    Mankind still evolving

    What is a "unnatural gene" ? How is directed mutation less "natural" than random mutation? Is it unnatural to cross two species of plants? We do that all the time. How is a gene from one species less "natural" than a gene from another?
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    Mankind still evolving

    Any science or technology is vulnerable to ethical abuse - genetic engineering no more so than any other. Ethical concerns should not be overlooked, but to halt progress because of the concren over potential abuse is uneccesarily overreacting.
  9. Z

    Mankind still evolving

    Agreed. My point is presenting this as if it some new revelation only perpetuates that ignorance.
  10. Z

    Mankind still evolving

    Depends what you are trying to accomplish. Lab mice strains are made up of individuals indentical to each other. This is accompliished exclusively through breeding. You can maintain diversity through genetic engineering as well.
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    Mankind still evolving

    We have been manipulating genomes ever since we started domesticating and breeding animals and growing and crossing crops. No genetic engineering necessary. We already accomplish this through controlled breeding and crossing. We've been doing it for centuries.
  12. Z

    Mankind still evolving

    I realize this. My curiosity is in why this is newsworthy as if it is some great revelation or discovery. The only response you will get from the scientific community is a great big collective "duh"
  13. Z

    Mankind still evolving

    Why would anyone think mankind had stopped evolving?
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    Flaw in LDS doctrine

    Thank you. I've edited my OP to include direct links. I hope you had no trouble cutting and pasting them before. Because the east side of the Bering strait is Siberia. As a population expands we should expect to see a genetic "trail" through all the areas in passed through. The entire...
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    1,000,000,000/1 Against Evolution !

    The question of how DNA originated is an interesting one, but not particularily relevant to evolution. DNA exists. It is the means by which genetic information is passed from parent to offspring. It is where evolution happens. How it came to be doesn't change this fact. A very long time...
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    1,000,000,000/1 Against Evolution !

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mutation It's not getting bitten by a bug. It's getting bitten by a bug and having genetically conferred resistance to the pathogen that bug carries. If you want to talk about smoking camels and getting cancer, I've actually been involved in research...
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    Why my Mormon workmate doesnt believe in Evo.

    Guess I'm out of luck then. Can't really debate that.
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    1,000,000,000/1 Against Evolution !

    Sickle cell anemia is caused by a mutation that changes the shape of red blood cells from roundto sickle shaped, hence the name. A person homozygous for this mutation is anemic, their cells cannot carry enough oxygen. However the sickle shaped cells are resistant to malaria infection, so in...
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    Why my Mormon workmate doesnt believe in Evo.

    How can we be sure we are more sophisticated than other animals? Maybe we aren't sophisticated enough to understand and communicate with them.
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    Question for a knowledgeable evolutionist

    From a very poor understanding of evolutionary theory Absolutely
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