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Don’t Just Sit There; Evolve
Posted on September 27, 2007 in Amazing Facts, Cell Biology, Human BodyHave you ever wondered why your body doesn’t evolve? After all, it is kind of like a population of trillions of organisms. Why shouldn’t it follow the rules of natural selection? Philip Ball asked this question in News@Nature recently. “Evolution is usually thought of as something that happens to whole organisms,” he teased. “But there’s no fundamental reason why, for multicelled organisms, it shouldn’t happen within a single organism too.”
So why haven’t you evolved into something else by now? The answer is as fascinating as it is unexpected: your body works overtime to keep you from evolving:It’s not easy making a human. Getting from a fertilized egg to a full-grown adult involves a near-miracle of orchestration, with replicating cells acquiring specialized functions in just the right places at the right times. So you’d think that, having done the job once, our bodies would replace cells when required by the simplest means possible.
Oddly, they don’t. Our tissues don’t renew themselves by mere copying, with old skin cells dividing into new skin cells and so forth. Instead, they keep repeating the laborious process of starting each cell from scratch. Now scientists think they know why: it could be nature’s way of making sure that we don’t evolve as we grow older.And it’s a good thing the body prevents you from evolving. Ball explains that mutants would have a selective advantage to hijack your other cells without doing any work: “mutant cells that don’t do their specialized job so well tend to replicate more quickly than non-mutants, and so gain a competitive advantage, freeloading off the others,” he explained. “In such a case, our wonderfully wrought bodies could grind to a halt.”
My, what would Charles Darwin think of that.This is too funny. Not only did the pro-evolutionist writer Philip Ball knock off another Darwinian concept in the pro-Darwin rag Nature, he praised our “wonderfully wrought bodies” with their “near-miracle of orchestration” in language that would warm the heart of any believer in intelligent design. My, what would Phillip Johnson think of that.
How stunningly moronic. I mean really first-class.
Quote “Evolution is usually thought of as something that happens to whole organisms,” he teased. “But there’s no fundamental reason why, for multicelled organisms, it shouldn’t happen within a single organism too.” Apart from having nothing to do with evolution, what does this statement even mean??
Can you explain? No, sorry, silly question.
Stuart
Evolution is intelligent design in motion.
Genesis never called itself “the word of God”. Latter believers made it a fetish, a kind of a golden calf. The Hebrew priest in Babylon redid their entire history for the sake of preserving the faith of the scattered Israelites. It was only after they returned to Israel that the books became authoritative scripture by the priest class who used the idea to rule.
Colter
Quote (t8 @ April 25 2012,01:13) Colter are you an Atheist?
No, I'm a disciple of the gospel of Jesus.I believe mind created mind.
I believe life was planted on our earth long ago and that life has evolved by way of certain evolutionary principles.
I believe that will conscious man came into existence by way of a “sudden” evolutionary leap, one of many such leaps within lines of various species.
Coinciding with the appearance of will consciousness, man could then “respond to spiritual gravity”.
Colter
Hi Colter,
I always thought gravity was a component of physicality; but… 'spiritual gravity' …,what is that?
God bless
Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
http://www.holycitybiblecode.orgQuote (Ed J @ April 25 2012,05:53) Hi Colter, I always thought gravity was a component of physicality; but… 'spiritual gravity' …,what is that?
God bless
Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
http://www.holycitybiblecode.org
THE SPIRIT-GRAVITY CIRCUIT7:1.1 Everything taught concerning the immanence of God, his omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, is equally true of the Son in the spiritual domains. The pure and universal spirit gravity of all creation, this exclusively spiritual circuit, leads directly back to the person of the Second Source and Center on Paradise. He presides over the control and operation of that ever-present and unerring spiritual grasp of all true spirit values. Thus does the Eternal Son exercise absolute spiritual sovereignty. He literally holds all spirit realities and all spiritualized values, as it were, in the hollow of his hand. The control of universal spiritual gravity is universal spiritual sovereignty.
7:1.2 This gravity control of spiritual things operates independently of time and space; therefore is spirit energy undiminished in transmission. Spirit gravity never suffers time delays, nor does it undergo space diminution. It does not decrease in accordance with the square of the distance of its transmission; the circuits of pure spirit power are not retarded by the mass of the material creation. And this transcendence of time and space by pure spirit energies is inherent in the absoluteness of the Son; it is not due to the interposition of the antigravity forces of the Third Source and Center.
7:1.3 Spirit realities respond to the drawing power of the center of spiritual gravity in accordance with their qualitative value, their actual degree of spirit nature. Spirit substance (quality) is just as responsive to spirit gravity as the organized energy of physical matter (quantity) is responsive to physical gravity. Spiritual values and spirit forces are real. From the viewpoint of personality, spirit is the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body.
7:1.4 The reactions and fluctuations of spirit gravity are ever true to the content of spiritual values, the qualitative spiritual status of an individual or a world. This drawing power is instantly responsive to the inter- and intraspirit values of any universe situation or planetary condition. Every time a spiritual reality actualizes in the universes, this change necessitates the immediate and instantaneous readjustment of spirit gravity. Such a new spirit is actually a part of the Second Source and Center; and just as certainly as mortal man becomes a spiritized being, he will attain the spiritual Son, the center and source of spirit gravity.
7:1.5 The Son’s spiritual drawing power is inherent to a lesser degree in many Paradise orders of sonship. For there do exist within the absolute spirit-gravity circuit those local systems of spiritual attraction that function in the lesser units of creation. Such subabsolute focalizations of spirit gravity are a part of the divinity of the Creator personalities of time and space and are correlated with the emerging experiential overcontrol of the Supreme Being.
7:1.6 Spirit-gravity pull and response thereto operate not only on the universe as a whole but also even between individuals and groups of individuals. There is a spiritual cohesiveness among the spiritual and spiritized personalities of any world, race, nation, or believing group of individuals. There is a direct attractiveness of a spirit nature between spiritually minded persons of like tastes and longings. The term kindred spirits is not wholly a figure of speech.
7:1.7 Like the material gravity of Paradise, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son is absolute. Sin and rebellion may interfere with the operation of local universe circuits, but nothing can suspend the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son. The Lucifer rebellion produced many changes in your system of inhabited worlds and on Urantia, but we do not observe that the resultant spiritual quarantine of your planet in the least affected the presence and function of either the omnipresent spirit of the Eternal Son or the associated spirit-gravity circuit.
7:1.8 All reactions of the spirit-gravity circuit of the grand universe are predictable. We recognize all actions and reactions of the omnipresent spirit of the Eternal Son and find them to be dependable. In accordance with well-known laws, we can and do measure spiritual gravity just as man attempts to compute the workings of finite physical gravity. There is an unvarying response of the Son’s spirit to all spirit things, beings, and persons, and this response is always in accordance with the degree of actuality (the qualitative degree of reality) of all such spiritual values.
7:1.9 But alongside this very dependable and predictable function of the spiritual presence of the Eternal Son, there are encountered phenomena which are not so predictable in their reactions. Such phenomena probably indicate the co-ordinate action of the Deity Absolute in the realms of emerging spiritual potentials. We know that the spirit presence of the Eternal Son is the influence of a majestic and infinite personality, but we hardly regard the reactions associated with the conjectured performances of the Deity Absolute as personal.
7:1.10 Viewed from the personality standpoint and by persons, the Eternal Son and the Deity Absolute appear to be related in the following way: The Eternal Son dominates the realm of actual spiritual values, whereas the Deity Absolute seems to pervade the vast domain of potential spirit values. All actual value of spirit nature finds lodgment in the gravity grasp of the Eternal Son but, if potential, then apparently in the presence of the Deity Absolute.
7:1.11 Spirit seems to emerge from the potentials of the Deity Absolute; evolving spirit finds correlation in the experiential and incomplete grasps of the Supreme and the Ultimate; spirit eventually finds final destiny in the absolute grasp of the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. This appears to be the cycle of experiential spirit, but existential spirit is inherent in the infinity of the Second Source and Center.
UB 1955Colter
Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,02:43) Apart from having nothing to do with evolution, what does this statement even mean??
Probably best to stay away from things you can't understand. Otherwise you might put your foot in your mouth again.
Foot and mouth disease is not nice from what I have heard.Quote (t8 @ April 25 2012,08:26) Colter. Do you think the universe also evolved, or just life forms?
The eternal isle of paradise is just that, eternal, it's the centre of the universe as we know it and the dwelling place of the eternal God.Beyond paradise the Sons of God create the various systems that do spin on in an evolutionary fashion.
Colter
Hi Colter,
You mean the gravity of Spirit instead, right?
God bless
Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
http://www.holycitybiblecode.orgQuote (t8 @ April 25 2012,08:28) Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,02:43) Apart from having nothing to do with evolution, what does this statement even mean??
Probably best to stay away from things you can't understand. Otherwise you might put your foot in your mouth again.
Foot and mouth disease is not nice from what I have heard.
Are you sure you know what it is you are defending, or concealing here?Stuart
Quote (Ed J @ April 25 2012,14:49) Hi Colter, You mean the gravity of Spirit instead, right?
God bless
Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
http://www.holycitybiblecode.org
Tomatoes, tomAtoes, how silly!Colter
Quote (Ed J @ April 25 2012,14:49) Hi Colter, You mean the gravity of Spirit instead, right?
God bless
Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
http://www.holycitybiblecode.org
I think it means, that if some one choses to do well towards you, they used their power well ….see sometimes… we may as well be tomarto's being held in two year olds hand
Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,15:39) Quote (t8 @ April 25 2012,08:28) Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,02:43) Apart from having nothing to do with evolution, what does this statement even mean??
Probably best to stay away from things you can't understand. Otherwise you might put your foot in your mouth again.
Foot and mouth disease is not nice from what I have heard.
Are you sure you know what it is you are defending, or concealing here?Stuart
well, Im tired of hearing about the teenager that comes home from the schooling day with a dose of serious bad language…that in-turn there peers learn't first hand from a very powerful spirit, er-resposible, the in-considerte…parental authority! that just woulndn't care a rats behind that others had hoped to raise up an evolve a pleasant Son..Daughter.Quote (charity @ April 25 2012,21:59) Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,15:39) Quote (t8 @ April 25 2012,08:28) Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,02:43) Apart from having nothing to do with evolution, what does this statement even mean??
Probably best to stay away from things you can't understand. Otherwise you might put your foot in your mouth again.
Foot and mouth disease is not nice from what I have heard.
Are you sure you know what it is you are defending, or concealing here?Stuart
well, Im tired of hearing about the teenager that comes home from the schooling day with a dose of serious bad language…that in-turn there peers learn't first hand from a very powerful spirit, er-resposible, the in-considerte…parental authority! that just woulndn't care a rats behind that others had hoped to raise up an evolve a pleasant Son..Daughter.
I appreciate your complaint of course.But I don't think evolve is a transitive verb.
Stuart
Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,22:09) Quote (charity @ April 25 2012,21:59) Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,15:39) Quote (t8 @ April 25 2012,08:28) Quote (Stu @ April 25 2012,02:43) Apart from having nothing to do with evolution, what does this statement even mean??
Probably best to stay away from things you can't understand. Otherwise you might put your foot in your mouth again.
Foot and mouth disease is not nice from what I have heard.
Are you sure you know what it is you are defending, or concealing here?Stuart
well, Im tired of hearing about the teenager that comes home from the schooling day with a dose of serious bad language…that in-turn there peers learn't first hand from a very powerful spirit, er-resposible, the in-considerte…parental authority! that just woulndn't care a rats behind that others had hoped to raise up an evolve a pleasant Son..Daughter.
I appreciate your complaint of course.But I don't think evolve is a transitive verb.
Stuart
lol…yea! what about distinguish adjective?Quote (Colter @ April 26 2012,02:50) Don McLeroy on “The Colbert Report” Colter
Excellent. It’s staggering how willing idiots are to be mocked to humiliation by satirists just for the free publicity. Yours is a wonderful and ridiculous country all at once. It was the first country to explicitly insist that religion and public politics be kept separate.The part about the economics of textbooks was very interesting, too.
Mr McLeroy’s more moronic comments:
Quote “Somebody’s got to stand up to the experts”.
Priceless.Quote “If you look at the complexity of a cell, I’m a skeptic”.
Just because you can’t believe it mate, doesn’t make a difference to the facts of how that complexity arose through natural processes. You are not a skeptic, skeptics insist on evidence. You are ignoring the evidence and giving us your confirmation bias version.Quote [ My personal scientific view is that dinosaurs walked with humans].
And Colbert’s personal view mocked this nonsense to smithereens.Quote Jonathan Edwards describes nothing as what a sleeping rock dreams of.
Wasn’t that Aristotle?Quote The bible explains that in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth.
ex•plain/ikˈsplān/
Verb:1.Make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
2.Account for (an action or event) by giving a reason as excuse or justification.The bible does not explain the creation of “the heaven and the earth”. At best it makes a bald assertion of it.
Quote We would have no reason to downplay Thomas Jefferson, a fellow religious conservative.
Jefferson may or may not have been religious and his own self-description was highly ambiguous; Christopher Hitchens became acquainted with Jefferson well enough to conclude that he was more atheist than deist, viewing as he did Jesus not as imbued with supernatural powers but as a moral teacher. Jefferson represented the political spectrum now claimed by the Democrats, so to call him a fellow religious conservative is hilarious.Stuart
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