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A gadfly with a point of view. Writing about the questions of life involving theology, science, and apologetics to inspire thought. Interested in the surprising and the inspiring world.
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
The DNA-Protein Evolution Paradox Evolution relies on random mutations and natural selection to be a viable theory for the diversity of life. However, there are issues with mutations causing changes in organisms. We can call these issues, evolutionary paradoxes. When the paradoxes are fully examined, they unveil the absurdity of evolutionary theory. One of the paradoxes is called the DNA-Protein paradox. DNA is the information carrier for the construction of proteins that are in turn the building blocks of cells. Without DNA, the only way to build a protein would be the chance assembly from a primeval goo. So, for life to exist and to replicate in an environment you must have the blueprint of a protein’s assembly that is contained in DNA. However, DNA is itself made of proteins and assembled in cells. DNA and proteins rely on the other for their assembly. This establishes a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” situation. It is inconceivable that one component can assemble itself spontaneously enough to form the other. The creation of a protein is extremely complicated and further complicated by the proper folding of the protein. The protein folds are what allows it to function properly. According to Cyrus Levinthal, there are 10^300 different ways that a protein can fold after a peptide chain is produced. [1] Only one of the folds is the correct one for the function of the protein. This is just one of numerous issues that either the protein or DNA would have to survive in order to spontaneously create. #grownostr #plebchain #science #evolution #creation [1] Levinthal, Cyrus (1969). "How to Fold Graciously". Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological Systems: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois: 22–24. image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Just wanted to share… I have grown up all my life with “get a career, save money, and contribute to your retirement. Then when you are 65 or so you can retire! That was good until 2015 when I had an aortic dissection and emergency surgery to get a graft put it. Then another surgery over a year ago to replace my damaged aortic valve. I am not reveling this to make people feel sorry for me. My life in many ways is much better now. I say this because it negatively affects my view on retirement and saving money. My life is now segmented into future valve replacements. I no longer have the comfort of an apparent long life. I am not sure now. So now all the years of saving for retirement with what the world told me seems a little hollow. I feel really cheated. The dollar has been manipulated into making me work my butt off. All for the payoff of “maybe” having enough from essentially playing the stock market (401k). That leaves me with what brought me to here and nostr. Bitcoin caught my attention a few months ago. After a deep dive research period, I finally invested. I am too new to really know if it will benefit my family and I. However, it gives me some hope that my hard earned money may not evaporate before I retire. I am not fully trapped in the system. Just my 2 cents/sats. Cheers! #grownostr #plebchain #introductions
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Just wanted to share… I have grown up all my life with “get a career, save money, and contribute to your retirement. Then when you are 65 or so you can retire! That was good until 2015 when I had an aortic dissection and emergency surgery to get a graft put it. Then another surgery over a year ago to replace my damaged aortic valve. I am not reveling this to make people feel sorry for me. My life in many ways is much better now. I say this because it negatively affects my view on retirement and saving money. My life is now segmented into future valve replacements. I no longer have the comfort of an apparent long life. I am not sure now. So now all the years of saving for retirement with what the world told me seems a little hollow. I feel really cheated. The dollar has been manipulated into making me work my butt off. All for the payoff of “maybe” having enough from essentially playing the stock market (401k). That leaves me with what brought me to here and nostr. Bitcoin caught my attention a few months ago. After a deep dive research period, I finally invested. I am too new to really know if it will benefit my family and I. However, it gives me some hope that my hard earned money may not evaporate before I retire. I am not fully trapped in the system. Just my 2 cents/sats. Cheers!
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Flavius Josephus and Jesus Christ Flavius Josephus was a prominent Jewish born historian in the first century AD. He wrote about the history of Isreal and the surrounding area of that time. In his book "Jewish Antiquities" he discusses the historical Jesus of Nazareth. "Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, 9 those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; 10 as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day." ~Jewish Antiquities, 18.3.3 §63 #grownostr #plebchain #Jesus #christianity #bible image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Triceratops Horn Unfossilized Soft Tissue Here is a video showing the examination of tissue from a triceratops horn collected in Montana by Mark Armitage. The tissue in not fossilized and is still very flexible. Unfossilized tissue is not that uncommon among fossils and is being found more often. #grownostr #plebchain #christianity #bible #science #dinosaurs #creation #youngearth #evolution image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Pigeon Poop Leads to a Universal Discovery The biggest piece of evidence for the viability of the Big Bang theory came in 1964 when Bell Labs scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were conducting research at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna. During their work recording the microwave radiation of the Milky Way galaxy, an unusually high background microwave radiation was detected. The source of the excess radiation could not be determined and they thought that it could be the leftover radiation from a high altitude nuclear explosion that was conducted a year earlier. However, the radiation measurements didn’t decrease as time passed so it was ruled out as a cause. Even the pigeon droppings that were all over the inside of the antenna, described as “white dielectric material” by Penzias, was cleaned out and examined to see if it was the cause of the excess radiation. In the end, no terrestrial cause of the radiation was found and it was determined that the radiation was coming from the universe itself. This radiation was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) that was left over from the big bang event and was later shown to be almost uniform throughout the universe. This evidence placed the Big Bang Theory as the prominent theory of the origin of our universe and is dominant to this day. #grownostr #plebchain #physics #science #engineering image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Carlisle Cathedral in the United Kingdom is the final resting place of Bishop Richard Bell. Bell who was laid to rest around the year 1496 AD was buried within the stone floor of the cathedral. Brass strips are inlaid in the floor as a border for his tomb. The strips have various contemporary animals skillfully engraved on them. The animals are easily identified as a bird , a pig, a dog, and even an eel. All of the animals would have easily been identified within the medieval period in which they were engraved. However, there are animals that are curiously out of place and resemble sauropod dinosaurs. The animals are of such detail that they can be identified as possibly vulcanodon and shunosaurus due to the spikes on its tail. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs #evolution #creation #youngearth image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Marco Polo wrote in "The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venitian" his account of his long journey to China. The book was written after his return to Venice in 1295. He wrote of creatures in the land of Karazan that do not fit the description of any known living creature. They were described as: "[H]uge serpents, ten paces in length, and ten spans in the girt of the body. At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, having three claws like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a fourpenny loaf and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal, can approach them without terror." He then told of the hunters that take the creatures as prey and later eat them: "Those whose employment it is to hunt them observe the track by which they are most frequently accustomed to go, and fix into the ground several pieces of wood, armed with sharp iron spikes, which they cover with the sand in such a manner as not to be perceptible. When therefore the animals make their way towards the places they usually haunt, they are wounded by these instruments, and speedily killed.” "..The flesh also of the animal is sold at a dear rate, being thought to have a higher flavour than other kinds of meat, and by all persons it is esteemed a delicacy.” #grownostr #plebchain #science #evolution #dinosaurs #history image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
A statue was found in Tell el-Dab’a, Egypt between 1986 and 1988 that has a remarkable resemblance to the biblical Joseph. “Over the statue’s right shoulder you can still see his “throw stick” i.e., the symbol of his rule. On the back – remarkably, as with the Biblical Joseph – you can still see evidence that this ruler was wearing a striped garment, made up of at least three colors: black, red and white. He was found in a tomb. The tomb was empty.” “he is not Egyptian, rather he is a man who comes from the area of Canaan/Israel.” #grownostr #plebchain #christianity #bible image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
Many cultures around the world have stories involving dragons and large serpents. This carving at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, Ta Prohm looks remarkably like what we know as a stegosaur. It was carved around 1200 AD. #grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs #creation #youngearth image
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Random Gadfly 2 years ago
The established scientific age of the universe and Genesis may not conflict when you apply the right frame of reference in mathematics. You decide for yourself. #grownostr #plebchain #physics #science #creation #youngearth