@farmerman,
Quote:From organic P-chem at the grad level, I probably have an MS equiv of lab and class hours in genetics.
So you seem to deny the "tossed books" of the vulgate. That Wee Jerome had no choice but to select the books he did to give to the Holy See .
You decode the genome first then all else gets revealed through time and work. The biggest findings in my life are the undertqndings of the Commonality of genes in ALL life and the "building up" of the various genera and seeing common ancestry (like a hyrax and an elephant, a human and a bonobo, a wasp and an ant or a manatee and a hippo) Underlying it all is the unoque erived genomes of the cichlid fihes tht hqve been exposed to unique environmental stresses an hve evolved into other genera by divergent evolution.
Im reserving Transposable elements and epigenetics till I better understand the Lamarkian sense therein. I have to plead a great deal of ignorance about "junk DNA and its use in stuff like convergence or Punctuated Equilibrium(or even saltation which has always been a no-no)
Wow! I have never read so much absurdity in one sole message.
The answer is very simple. The ancestor of the elephant, the human, the bonobo, the wasp, the ant, the manatee, the hippo and more, comes from ground. Ground has elements from which life has been formed. We share the same elements forming organic compounds, that's all.
The rest is crap, pure jargon and semantics.
The difference between learning genetics with learning the biblical doctrine, is that for genetics you must study it with your own effort. Hours and hours of reading and using labs.
I like what it is found from lab and observation, but laugh about the silly conclusions made by scientists when trying to prove evolution right when the lab and observation never show any evolution at all. Lol.
On the other hand, to learn the doctrine found in the bible, no study of hours and hours is needed. No, I myself can understand the doctrine without studying anything. I can study ancient Hebrew to verify the interpretation of words made by translators, but this is about language, not so about doctrine.
This is to say, that the bible can have thousands of errors, and even so the doctrine found in it is not affected at all because those errors.
There is a method, a way, a trick to understand the doctrine of the bible and understand each one of the purposes at each step. This understanding doesn't require studying but the surrender of the person and the appreciation of the wisdom found in it.
This is like to say, you finally obey and drive your car at 25 miles per hour in residential streets according to the law, and you appreciate such a law because at that speed you will be able to stop and avoid an accident if suddenly a child crosses the street in front of you.
Then you understand that such 25 miles per hour traffic law in that zone is a wise law.
The context of the law in writing might have many words misspelled in it, still the law is a wise law.
Same is when you find errors in the bible.
You have been obeying the traffic law of 25 miles per hour in residential zones for years without knowing why. And this is because the book you have studied to obtain your driver license won't explain you why there are 25, 35, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 miles per hour streets, roads, highways, etc.
You just follow those rules.
In your case, the day you finally start to understand the different laws around you, it is possible that that day you might be ready to understand the meaning of the doctrine of the bible.
Until then, your ignorance still is keeping you writing nonsense after nonsense when is about religion.
