Anyone out there ever have a “December to REMEMBER”?
Please, tell us all about it…!
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Open Thread Thanksgiving
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Why wait for December, when November is to remember?
Welcome to Earth, population – one: Three billion years ago sea was a single huge creature that split to form life as we know it
It’s fascinating to observe the evolution of a faith and its defense.
This free exchange and lack of competition meant that the ocean functioned as the ‘single mega-organism’.
The origin of left-wing ideology which rejects individual dignity and sanctity of human life, and favors submission to a central authority.
The mega-organism was only broken apart when some of the cells evolved ways of producing everything they needed.
The origin of right-wing ideology which favors individual dignity and sanctity of human life, and rejects submission to a central authority.
The left-wing ideologues have been pursuing regression ever since; and the right-wing ideologues have continued to evolve. Finally, the left-wing’s fitness function has been described and it is now clear why their principles do not favor the long-term viability of human beings. We do indeed have two different perspectives of reality; but worse, the two perspectives by their nature are fundamentally incompatible.
This is the best hypothesis yet of what distinguishes the two “races” of human beings.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cool link n.n. check this out. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/gen1st.htm Sciences Eve:
Dr. Lynn Margulis thinks humans are, essentially, a colony of closely associated bacteria. When she first proposed her theory in The Origin of Eukaryotic Cells in 1970, the ideas proved so controversial that they “could not even be discussed at respectable scientific meetings.” Today, however, the theory that most scientists rejected out of hand has earned, in the words of biologist Richard Dawkins, “triumphant near-universal acceptance.”
The human story, as Margulis first saw it, began about 3.2 billion years ago when the only inhabitants on earth were bacteria. About that time, two primitive species of bacteria, a “mother” bacteria (Bdellavibrio) and a “father” bacteria (Thermoplasma acidophillium) started “exchanging energy” in a stable and dependable way that led to the formation of all subsequent life forms. This happened when the free-living bacteria took up residence in large “eukaryotic” cells. Confined within the large cells, the bacteria transformed into swarming elliptical membrane-filled bodies called mitochondria. With the formation of mitochondria began the flow of a riverof DNA that sweeps through three billion years to include us all.
According to Margulis, each one of the hundred trillion cells in the human body is an enclosed garden of specially tamed and always multiplying bacteria. Not only is every man not an island, in the vision of Margulis, he is in essence a community of communities. The mitochondria perform essential functions, such as allowing chain reactions to occur that are critical to breathing and digestion. As Richard Dawkins notes, “Without our mitochondria, we’d die in a second.”
Mitochondria, with their own simple DNA that is not affected by sexual mixing, come from our mothers only. Your mitochondria came exclusively from your mother’s mother’s mother–and so on, back generation after generation, to the beginning of our species. The culture of mitochondria in the female egg seeds a newborn’s body, while whatever mitochondria might be in the sperm are lost with the tail at the time of egg fertilization. The female-only transmission of mitochondria, coupled with its slow rate of genetic mutation, make its DNA ideal for tracing and dating maternal ancestry.
Researchers in the 1980s used computers to analyze samples of DNA drawn from 135 diverse women from all over the globe—Chinese, African tribeswomen, Australian Aborigines, Native Americans, Europeans. The researchers discovered that the family trees of these women all led back toAfrica. Remarkably, the analysis demonstrated that genetic differences among the various people within Africa all are twice as great as the differences between all other population groups. This strongly suggests that all the population groups outside Africa are descended from a small band of humans that left Africa—probably about 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. In a sense, we are all Africans.
The ancestral human population that lived in Africa started to split up roughly 150,000 years ago, when the mitochondrial tree makes its first branches within the African continent. The very root of the mitochondrial tree seems to lie in the northwestern Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. The true home of Eve—Mitochondrial Eve—is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a hot African desert. The mitochondrial research matches nicely with recent genetic research using the Y chromosome, transmitted exclusively by males, which also points to southern Africa as the home of Adam. Unlike the Genesis version of human origins, however, the Y chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve that our genetic trees trace back to did not have the planet to themselves—there probably, in fact, were thousands of other humans living at the time. Moreover, other humans had lived and died long before they did. All we know is that these two humans, alone among the population of their time, can claim an unbroken line of sons and daughters that persists to this day.
It’s interesting, but their conclusions are still derived from a permanent condition of limited, circumstantial evidence. They are not and cannot be conclusive. This suggests this field of study, while intellectually satisfying, should be relegated to the domain of philosophy and not science. In fact, this would apply to most, if not all, of the proxy evidence from which knowledge is often inferred. By its nature, the evidence, and its context, cannot be definitively reproduced. The only reason to elevate its status is if it served a practical purpose to elevate the human condition.
In general, as with other circumstantial evidence, I would consider it if there were multiple, independent sources. However, even then it is only “true” until it is not. The test would only increase the likelihood of correctly inferring knowledge and then there is the secondary matter of drawing the correct conclusion.
Well, I am not convinced. I assume they traced the lineage to Africa based on the few (or is it less?) fossils they have located. Their hypothesis is interesting but will forever remain hypothetical.
What do you think? What evidence or argument would be sufficient to convince you?
Confirmed: Non-Africans found to be part-Neanderthal
December 2004, Diego Garcia. Temp 89 degrees, humidity 98%. Sand and surf. No family around, I would’ve loved to have them there, but you can’t exactly jump in a car and drive there. Kinda lonely. I missed snow, the cold, and mountains – you can only take the tropics for so long if you’re a Northern boy.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and a Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year!!
This will indeed be a December to remember, I can feel it in my bones…
December 2002 when my beautiful daughter presented to me a grandson — on my very own birthday!
Best gift – ever. The gift of life.