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Subject: Genes disprove evolution
Time: 5:04:57 PM CDT
Author:  mtblanco1

Fossils, so far, have not told us much about genes. Yet, fossil animals are promoted as proof of evolution. Gene research is just one area of study that profoundly challenges the standard evolution myth. This article is just one of many such reports. But keep in mind that what we know about genes, DNA and, etc., is probably minuscule at this point. Life is so complex that it could never have evolved.

Joe Taylor

 

Genetics: Alternate Reading Frames May Be Common   05/20/2007    
Imagine a book written in a language where there were no spaces, and every word was three letters long.  Now imagine that you could get one story by starting at the first letter, and a different story by starting at the second letter, and another by starting at the third letter.  That’s the situation with some genes in the genetic code.  DNA can code for one protein in the first reading frame, but a different protein in an alternate reading frame.  Since the DNA language has three nucleotide “letters” per codon “word,” and since the opposite strand has three more reading frames, there are potentially six reading frames per gene.  How commonly are alternate reading frames used by an organism?
    A paper in PLoS Computational Biology hints that there may be widespread examples of alternate reading frames (ARFs) in mammalian genomes.  ARFs were thought to be rare in eukaryotes.  An international team, using new statistical techniques, found 40 cases in the human genome, but says that this may be a significant underestimate, since their analysis was very conservative.  Their author’s summary asks and answers why these alternate reading frames were not found before:

A textbook human gene encodes a protein using a single reading frame.  Alternative splicing brings some variation to that picture, but the notion of a single reading frame remains.  Although this is true for most of our genes, there are exceptions.  Like viral counterparts, some eukaryotic genes produce structurally unrelated proteins from overlapping reading frames.  The examples are spectacular (G-protein alpha subunit [Gnas1] or INK4a tumor suppressor), but scarce.  The scarcity is anthropogenic in origin: we simply do not believe that dual-coding genes can occur in eukaryotes.  To challenge this assumption, we performed the first genome-wide scan for mammalian genes containing alternative reading frames located out of frame relative to the annotated protein-coding region.  Using a newly developed statistical framework, we identified 40 such genes.  Because our approach is very conservative, this number is likely a significant underestimate, and future studies will identify more alternative reading frame-containing genes with fascinating biology.

    They said there was an almost zero probability these ARFs were due to chance: in fact, one section of the paper is subtitled, “Dual Coding Is Virtually Impossible by Chance.”  Finding so many ARFs was surprising, they said, because maintaining ARFs by natural selection is “costly” – i.e., mutations in one reading frame could disable the information in the alternate frame.
    Often, the proteins that result from alternate reading frames are related to the same function or process in the cell.  The researchers compared the well-known ARFs between humans, mice and some other mammals and found them to be highly conserved (i.e., unevolved). 1Chung, Wadhawan, Szklarczyk, Pond, and Nekrutenko, “A First Look at ARFome: Dual-Coding Genes in Mammalian Genomes,” Public Library of Science: Computational Biology May 18, 2007.

Try writing a message that could be read three different ways depending on which letter was the starting point.  It is extremely difficult.  If this turns out to be a common mechanism in genetics, it reveals an astonishing level of intelligent design.  How, and why, would a blind process do such a thing?  Notice how geneticists were not even looking for this amount of complexity because they did not believe it was possible.
    This technique of “data compression” could expand the functional information of the genome significantly.  ARF!  The hunt is on.  Sic the design community on this fascinating puzzle.  They won’t be tied up and muzzled from announcing the return of the Master to biology.
Next headline on:  Genetics • Intelligent Design • Amazing Facts

  Speaking of conserved genes, remember the mystery of the ultraconserved elements?  The 05/27/2004 entry describes thousands of “frozen” strands of DNA with no change between animals as distinct as birds and humans.  Furthermore, not all the ultraconserved elements were in gene-coding regions, and some are apparently not required for survival.  This announcement produced “gasps of amazement” among geneticists.

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Subject: The Antichrist May Be GAY!
Time: 7:19:49 AM CDT
Author:  mtblanco1

I'm serious. The Bible says he will not "be given to women." If you consider how homosexuality is not only becoming tolerated, but promoted and defended by famous people, corporations, governments and whole cultures, it is making me wonder. Why else would a company like FORD promote it to the loss of millions of dollars? And they are one of many. Governments have passed laws for homosexuality and are punishing anyone who condemns it.

The culture of television is world wide and it is increasingly pro-homosexuality. World renound network newscaster Barbara Walters was falling all over her fellow lesbian Rosie O'Donnel a few days ago on Rosie's show. Their guest was a little girl whose stupid parents apparently want her to emulate Rosie and Barbara. Hollywood has again asked lesbian Ellen Degenerate to host the next big awards show. Our public schools have been promoting homosexuality for 25 years.

And what about all those millions of extra Chinese men who are reaching military age? China has murdered so many of its baby girls because families are allowed only one child, that there are now millions of males in China who are not going to have a woman their age to marry.

God declares in His word that homosexuality is an abomination. It was then,
it is now, and it always will be! The rise of homosexuality is partly a product of the women's lib movement. Men and women, you better be cleaning your house of un-biblical thinking and practices. God made them "male and female" and it is God who punished the man by making him the leader and the woman by being the follower. There is no better way of life.

Joe Taylor

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Subject: Tortillas with the Russians
Time: 2:38:17 PM CST
Author:  mtblanco1

One of the most impressive displays at the recent Tucson Gem And Mineral Show
was Feyodor Shidlovski's Museum of Russian fossils. He was featured in the
May 2005 National Geographic. He and his team brought amazing fossils from their
extensive museum in Moscow. After watching a video of how they collect
fossils in Siberia, with Feyodor, Igor, Alexander and Feyodor's lovely wife Oksana,
I was given a personal tour of their incredible Siberian specimens. First
there was the complete Mammoth skeleton, met by a fleshed-out model of the same.
Utilizing the several kinds of hair from yaks, and real mammoth tusks, the
life-like effect is really convincing. And speaking of yaks, there for the first
time in my experience was a complete skeleton of a fossil yak. Oddly, it looked
like a small cow and didn't even seem to be the same animal as a stuffed one
close by. The fleshed-out Woolly Rhino is totally convincing. Their very long
but thin horns are still the subject of debate. The horn itself, is actually
matted hair which grows from a nearly flat but bumpy surface on the nose and
front of the head. The puzzle is that, often the front of the horn is worn flat,
and looks as though it has been cut by a straight edge with a saw. Did they
use it to sweep snow out of the way? That has been considered. It occured to me
that maybe they wore it off rubbing against the ground as they grazed with
their mouths flat to the surface. Maybe they rubbed on each other like horses
will bite another horse where it wants to be bitten itself.
The museum was only part of the Russian display. Another tent housed a second
Mammoth skeleton. As the artist Vladimir said, "I take it down, I join it. I
take it down, I join it in another place." On the floor were sets of beautiful
black and blue tusks weighing 150 lbs. They were Mammoth tusks of all sizes
in the tent and all kinds ivory carvings form scrap mammoth tusks.
At dinner, we went to La Fuente, a nice Mexican restaurant. The Ruskies
didn't know what all that stuff on the menu was. "What is tortilla soup," Oksana
asked. I told them it was good. So that's what they ordered. As in all Mexican
restaurants, corn chips and salsa was served prior to the meal. Oksana pointed
to the chips and said "Cheeps?" "Yes, I assured her, and added, they're flat
tortillas." At that the otherwise beautiful and sophisticated blonde began
laughing to the point of tears. When she could finally talk, she told the others
in Russian. Everybody was laughing now. Finally, gathering her composure, she
explained that they thought "Tortillas" were a little creature...like a
cheekin." Then I laughed.
Joe


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Subject: Previous Blogs
Time: 2:36:40 PM CST
Author:  mtblanco1

Saturday 8-13-2005

Today, I talk about the "origins of racism" in the Origins of Species.  Little people stories abound from around the world.  Some are legend, some are myth and some are genuinely historical, as it is in this story.  Click here to read about the little people from Indonesia.

Saturday 8-6-2005

James Taylor, the son of  my younger brother Tom grew up south of Crosbyton on the S/K Ranch.  He lives in Mississippi with his wife and kids but began helping me on digs back in the 80's.  James is the co-pastor of the Aberdeen Primitive Baptist Church.  He graduated from Texas A&M, class of '93, with a degree in Biomedical Science.  Click here to read his article.

Thursday  7-7-2005

Wednesday 6-8-2005

 In a message dated 6/3/2005 7:23:46 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, erazz@------- writes:

Interesting New York Times article on the soft tissue  Tyrannosaurus Rex  find. I've added some emphasis to the article  below. Great  jabs between advocates of the Bird to Dinosaur link and  opponents as well.

T. Rex Fossil's Surprise: She Was Ovulating
By _JOHN  NOBLE WILFORD_
Published: June 3, 2005
For the second time in two months, a Tyrannosaurus rex recently excavated  in Montana has surprised scientists. Among its rock-hard fossils, the scientists had already isolated soft  tissues, including blood vessels and cells lining them - a most improbable discovery after 70 million years. The same paleontologists may now have topped that. They are reporting today 
that the same T. rex has yielded unusual bone tissue that shows that the  animal was an ovulating female. Until now, distinguishing the sex of dinosaurs  has been impossible without well-preserved pelvic bones. Moreover, after careful testing, the scientists determined that the  estrogen-derived tissue was similar to substances now present only in living  birds that produce eggshells.
The discovery team concludes in a report in the journal Science that the  finding "solidifies the link between dinosaurs and birds" and "provides an  objective means of gender differentiation in dinosaurs." Dr. Mary H. Schweitzer of North Carolina State University, the team leader,  and John R. Horner of the Museum ofthe Rockies at Montana State University  described the research on Tuesday in a teleconference arranged by the American  Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of the journal. When she first examined the marrow cavities of the dinosaur leg bones, Dr.  Schweitzer said, "I knew right away there was special bone tissue, and it had  all the characteristics of medullary bone tissue." Medullary tissue, previously associated just with female birds, is formed  by an increase in estrogen levels during a bird's egg-laying cycle and is  deposited on the interior walls of the leg bones. The tissue serves as a  reservoir of calcium for eggshells. After the last egg is laid, the tissue is 
completely reabsorbed into the bird's body. Dr. Schweitzer said the presence of such tissue in the T. rex indicated  that the reproductive physiologies of some dinosaurs might have been similar  those of to modern birds, in particular flightless ones like ostriches and  emu...

Joe's Thoughts
On the new T-rex "ovulating female" article. Two things; First, in 1998, when professor Mark Armitage electron scanned my piece of T-rex hip bone from Wyoming and found collagen, there was  more to it than I may have told you. He also scanned hip bone material from an East Indian man who died about 15 years before. He said that under high microscopy of the human collagen, that it was virtually identical to that of the T-rex. Sooo...if the estrogen derived lining of an ovulating bird is "similar" to that found in the T-rex bone and therefore its strong evidence of a common ancestor....are we to suspect that humans and T-rexes had a common ancestor? Second; the article says that T-rex eggs have never been found. If I'm not mistaken, there were some for sale a few years ago. I'll try to find that info. I know of a clump of "T-rex dung" from Canada that was for sale for $800 a few years ago. It was gray and had black bones sticking out of it.

Sunday 5-28-2005

Atmospheric Telescoping
Hugh et al:
Consider atmospheric "telescoping": Having dug all over and worked with fossils from the obvious flood sediments such as the Ordovician, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and then having worked in the areas of question, the Tertiary, Oligocene, Miocene, and then in the pretty much accepted Post flood layers of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and then in the unquestioned Holocene, and lastly modern, without going in to all the ramifications, it seems to me that the earth ala C-14 reckoning went through a "telescoping" after the flood. It seems like the pre-flood world was constant, albeit there may have been violent earthquakes and volcanic activity, but at least the "canopy" or something kept things a tolerable "tropics" all over the globe. This "canopy" may have broken up which may account for all the limestone, clay, limestone, clay etc. layers all over the earth. But, here's my point, maybe there was a disintegration of the pre-flood atmosphere that we are not giving enough thought to, such as the air stayed warm for a while, then it telescoped down and has become increasingly colder at perhaps some "knowable" rate. There may have been a lot of dust in the air for a time. Also, the sediments that cover much of the dinosaurs may have been hot, at least warm. There appear to have been a lot of water on the land after the waters abated. Also, all of those vast layers of mud in Colorado, Montana etc. must have created a lot of springs and artesian wells and were probably a big water factor for perhaps several hundred years. Over in Artesia New Mexico, there used to be lots of artesian wells, springs, in the middle of flat land. I have studied these thousands of playa lakes all over West Texas and they appear to have once been artesian wells.  

So, maybe C-14 dates need to be "telescoped" down a little further to account for the "un-hitched train car" affect of a slowly disintegrating pre-flood atmosphere and climate. Perhaps the idea of a pre-flood atmosphere and then the post-flood atmosphere being radically different to each other is not the whole picture. Maybe there was a "gray" period there between them. I think if this could be accounted for, it would help understand many of the fossil puzzles and give us dates that are more in line with the Biblical account. I think the adjustments to C-14 dates are long over due. Back 25 years ago when I asked Libby's assistant about how the "age" of C-14 was assessed, he hesitatingly replied, "it was established in the last half of the prior century." I took that to mean that "age" of the earth was more defined by the Darwinism of the 1800s than by empirical science.

Joe Taylor

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