tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post1731930827008218823..comments2024-01-23T02:32:28.567-08:00Comments on Darwin's God: The Problem(s) With PenguinsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-38367485887462350152014-09-21T04:57:29.193-07:002014-09-21T04:57:29.193-07:00The debate is if not flippers and wings have the s...The debate is if not flippers and wings have the same functionality but if ever one morphed into another by the magic wand of evolution.<br />Hope you got the thrust of my argument.To answer this,you ought to read Hunter's piece again and you will be enlightened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-79853456140968988302010-02-09T10:04:24.891-08:002010-02-09T10:04:24.891-08:00cfauster: Thanks for those rolled up statistics.cfauster: Thanks for those rolled up statistics.Cornelius Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283098537456505707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-48959158901090453192010-02-08T15:19:56.414-08:002010-02-08T15:19:56.414-08:00Histone H4 is mentioned. It's not correct to ...Histone H4 is mentioned. It's not correct to say that amino acid changes in H4 cause no problems. Don't get me wrong, Michael Behe's work was very good. I'm always amazed how people remain unaware of his work, essentially repeat his experiment, and are surprised to learn that many changes in H4 are viable. However, a mutant can be viable (not die) but still have problems. H4 is the most conserved of the histones, and as expected, changes in its amino acids are most likely to cause phenotypic effects. Here is the latest data from Huang et al. (2009) in Genome Research, Volume 19, pages 674-681 in their article entitled "HistoneHits: a database for histone mutations and their phenotypes":<br />* between yeast and humans, H4 is 92% conserved at the amino acid level<br />* 87% (89 out of 102) of the amino acids in H4 show some detectable phenotypic effect if altered by mutation<br />* in contrast, for a much less conserved histone such as H2B, only 26 of the 112 tested amino acids have so far shown a phenotypic effect when altered (H2B has 130 amino acids in yeast, but 8 have yet to be tested)<br />* mutations of the most conserved amino acids are 2.8 times more likely to give phenotypes than mutations of the least conserved amino acidsUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02478632983366184115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-31706707064376561742009-12-26T10:07:56.254-08:002009-12-26T10:07:56.254-08:00"Anyone who has seen a penguin swim knows its..."Anyone who has seen a penguin swim knows its flippers are not just a happenstance design. The penguin is an incredible swimmer and the last thing that comes to mind is that its flippers somehow evolved from a wing."<br /><br />A very odd assertion to make. Surely using wings to power yourself through water is very similar to using them to power yourself through air? There are some differences certainly (bouyancy v weight, water resistance, etc), but I have no trouble seeing how a flipper was once a wing.<br /><br />What do you see when you look at flightless cormorants?<br /><br />http://www.naturediscoveries.com/galapago/cormornt.jpg<br /><br />Their 'wings' are useless for flight, and indeed are used only as flippers with which to swim. Do you still see no resemblance to functional bird wings here?<br /><br />Then there are the wing/flipper bones. The bones in a penguin's flipper are thicker than those in the wing of a flying bird of a comparable size, but the arrangement of bones themselves are identical.<br /><br />http://www.pinguins.info/Engels/Evo_vlieg_eng.html<br /><br />Hardly comparing apples to oranges, is it?Ritchiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03494987782757049380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-83764658189356835102009-12-25T18:22:29.821-08:002009-12-25T18:22:29.821-08:00Cornelius,
"a bird morphed into a penguin&qu...Cornelius,<br /><br />"a bird morphed into a penguin": are you suggesting that penguins aren't birds?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-82837183630310230602009-12-25T12:59:46.062-08:002009-12-25T12:59:46.062-08:00Peter:
Thank you for those kind comments. I agree...Peter:<br /><br />Thank you for those kind comments. I agree with your point about evolutionists focusing on strawmen or weak criticisms. This has always reminded me of David Hume who, while obviously a smart fellow, apparently could not resist the great fun of exposing the naive and the simple and in the process finding satisfaction in his equally naive and simple conclusions. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.Cornelius Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283098537456505707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855268335402896473.post-84109461126866128832009-12-25T06:27:05.661-08:002009-12-25T06:27:05.661-08:00Merry Christmas Cornelius,
Your blog is the best....Merry Christmas Cornelius,<br /><br />Your blog is the best. I enjoy it more than any other science blog. You have an expertise in evolutionary biology that no other blog has to my knowledge. You can translate the science into english I can understand. Your analysis is unbiased, which is rare among evolutionists. I am sure you would be an evolutionist if the science supported it.<br /><br />As for the molecular clock, isn't it just another form of circumstantial evidence; evidence that in truth now argues against evolution? There is no link betweeen genetic mutation and beneficial phenotype change. It is mind boggling to me that evolutionists can believe the many simultaneous changes needed for evolution is possible by random fluctuations.<br /><br />I like to read some good science blogs from pro-evolutionst pov. They criticize other bloggers who do not have your level of expertise, but they never criticize you. I think they don't want any of their followers to learn the many serious weakenesses of Darwinism which you have convincingly shown.<br /><br />I always look forward to your next blog.<br /><br />Have a merry Christmas,<br /><br />Peter WadeckPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067396087460502962noreply@blogger.com