Stephen E. Jones wrote:
>?:
>>Our ancestors should not have been doing these sophisticated
>>things for another 40,000 years at least. ... At Blombos, we have
>>African hunter-gatherers at 80,000 years ago doing many things
>>associated with the Late Stone Age "cultural explosion" 40,000 to
>>30,000 years ago - when Homo sapiens arrived in Europe for the
>>first time.
> [More confirmation of the
>Biblical picture that man was originally advanced but fell away.]
Stephen, could you elaborate on this? In the first place, I don't know
that anyone ever deduced a 40-80K history of man from the bible.
But anyway, surely the fall was not a fall away from technology,
but rather a loss of innocence.
Of course this is a point against man-from-chimp.
>?:
>>new state of nuclear matter, a quark-gluon plasma, which CERN
>>described as "the primordial soup in which quarks and gluons
>>existed before they clumped together as the universe cooled down." .
>[Interesting that they use the same "primordial soup" terms to describe the
>origin of the universe as they do for the origin of life!]
It's interesting that physicists get respect and credence for outlandish
speculations, while biologists don't dare to speculate about mechanisms
explaining the Cambrian Explosion.
>>?:They genetically engineered mouse cells to produce extra insulin,
>>but the cells did not release the insulin until "told" to do so by a drug
>>given orally.... "It will make gene therapy safer because you can shut it
>>off and more effective because you can fine-tune the effects of the gene
>>therapy,"
>[This sounds *very* promising and might avoid ethical problems.]
This also avoids the problem of patients being virtually cured and no
longer needing to buy drugs.
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com
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