tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post3174290240896661694..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Endogenous Retroviruses and Junk DNALarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-70801989603481092962013-01-02T10:36:57.775-05:002013-01-02T10:36:57.775-05:00Nobody who was knowledgeable about the field ever ...Nobody who was knowledgeable about the field ever thought that 98% of our genome was junk. I replied to you because I thought you might actually want to know how to understand scientific evidence.<br /><br />I was wrong. I feel sorry for you.<br />Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-22194758685606268172013-01-01T22:16:29.846-05:002013-01-01T22:16:29.846-05:00Mr Moran, in relation to your smart butt comment t...Mr Moran, in relation to your smart butt comment to me, I suppose you would 'know' your above information about as much as you 'knew' 98% of the genome was junk.<br /><br />I gather you also 'know' what turned to 'junk' and what looks like it is on its way, because you have revived Ardi and taken a dna samples. Right? Or better still let some algorithmic magic whip up the data for you. <br /><br />I'd say the faithful constitute those that suggest dirt organized itself into a complex factory of reproduction that has never been demonstrated based on the notion of 'primite' cells evolutionists have never observed. You actually require more faith than I do.<br /><br />Evolutionists actually require more faith than the religious. <br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-73436745551775910702013-01-01T21:59:33.901-05:002013-01-01T21:59:33.901-05:00I suggest a theory that can predict every outcome ...I suggest a theory that can predict every outcome and accommodate every anomaly has the scientific veracity of a crystal ball.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-13621955456898721802012-12-29T14:07:19.959-05:002012-12-29T14:07:19.959-05:00Inserted, intact, retroviruses have a function. On...Inserted, intact, retroviruses have a function. Once they acquire lethal mutations they become defective retroviruses, or junk DNA. However, they don't lose everything all at once. Many defective retroviruses still retain strong promoters that make nonfunctional (junk) RNA. <br /><br />I don't think this is difficult to understand. Is there some particular point that confuses you?Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-28184651203531867292012-12-27T20:24:04.055-05:002012-12-27T20:24:04.055-05:00Larry,
It does seem like you are describing a fun...Larry,<br /><br />It does seem like you are describing a function for this special kind of junk DNA. I for one would like to hear a real answer instead of an abusive hominem attack.Randy Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09626444950916244368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-25834550187680210582012-12-14T11:00:53.990-05:002012-12-14T11:00:53.990-05:00I see that you completely missed the point. Do IDi...I see that you completely missed the point. Do IDiots take courses on how to avoid uncomfortable logic and evidence or does it come to you naturally once you've decided to put your faith in mystical beings?Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-25644453182051938892012-12-13T22:26:38.579-05:002012-12-13T22:26:38.579-05:00Oh I like this..."But it's a special kind...Oh I like this..."But it's a special kind of junk because retrovirus DNA has strong promoters that bind various transcription factors and the flanking enhancers ensure that the region around these promoters will be in open chromatin regions that have all the characteristics of real promoter sites."<br /><br />It takes an evolutionist to speak to function and junk all in the same sentence!<br /><br />Much like evolutionists are now back tracking 98% junk that was shoved down creationists throats that are now back peddling such as to now being totally ignorant of what junk may or may not be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-1575956072621909392012-09-07T14:43:17.056-04:002012-09-07T14:43:17.056-04:00Does 8% of the genome constitute enough "meta...Does 8% of the genome constitute enough "metabolic cost" for selection to render it adaptively deleterious?Mikkel Rumraket Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670550711237457368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-49440491674021856302012-09-07T14:42:14.985-04:002012-09-07T14:42:14.985-04:00So, does ID have even the slightest of meaningful ...So, does ID have even the slightest of meaningful responses to this? I mean, beyond just making blind, unfalsifiable assertions like "the designer wanted to use ERV's for future evolution" or some such nonsense?Mikkel Rumraket Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670550711237457368noreply@blogger.com