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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
5:51:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Scientists say we're evolving faster than ever! Yay! I'll look like ET sooner than I expected!
Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday.
In fact, people today are genetically more different from people living 5,000 years ago than those humans were different from the Neanderthals who vanished 30,000 years ago, according to anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin...
Many of the recent genetic changes reflect differences in the human diet brought on by agriculture, as well as resistance to epidemic diseases that became mass killers following the growth of human civilizations, the researchers said.
I'm not entirely surprised -- a very large population of individuals (such as the human race has) would seem to make it easier for mutations to arise, simply as a matter of odds. Still very unlikely we'll all evolve superpowers a la The X-Man, though. So don't get your hopes up.
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5:51:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Help! Help! I'm Evoluting!
Scientists say we're evolving faster than ever! Yay! I'll look like ET sooner than I expected!
Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday.
In fact, people today are genetically more different from people living 5,000 years ago than those humans were different from the Neanderthals who vanished 30,000 years ago, according to anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin...
Many of the recent genetic changes reflect differences in the human diet brought on by agriculture, as well as resistance to epidemic diseases that became mass killers following the growth of human civilizations, the researchers said.
I'm not entirely surprised -- a very large population of individuals (such as the human race has) would seem to make it easier for mutations to arise, simply as a matter of odds. Still very unlikely we'll all evolve superpowers a la The X-Man, though. So don't get your hopes up.
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Scientists don't believe in anything that can't be explained. Their minds are finite whereas the mind of God is infinite, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," say the Lord, Isaiah 55:8.
The question one should ask the scientist is, "Who created that which we evolved from?" The origin of something has to have an origin. If we evolved from an amoeba, then who created the amoeba? If we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?
It's easier to explain away then it is to explain.
Mutations come about when we try to play God. Man's desire to manipulate his world. Curiosity breeds contempt. Man's desire for longevity is to stop what God has established. God gives longevity to whom He pleases. God has numbered our days not man. Man doesn't determine his birth nor does he determine his death.
Diseases come about because we try to manipulate what God has established. -
Makes perfect sense. My parents are primitive throwbacks and today's kids are mutants!
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Let's compare, shall we, John?
First, ET was short, bald, pale and had a glowing finger...
John Scalzi is short, bald, has a "writer's tan," and I'm not sure about the finger...
Show me your finger John. Give me the finger. Is it glowing?
-Dan
http://thewisdomofadistractedmind.blogspot.com/
12/14/07 2:07 AM
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