NERD AGONIES: Life as Creationist Grad Students in the Secular World, Pt. 2
18Sal and Emory relate their stories as creationist researchers and graduate students in biology and physics.
In response to two e-mails from Cindi Lincoln and another person wanting to remain anonymous, there will be a discussion of the "created light" solution to distant starlight. Faint Young Sun Paradox, Genetic Entropy, young fossil evidence.
Sall will briefly respond to some supporters and critics and people hes' tossed from his channel ( internet howler monkey).
Other topics on the docket:
Discovery Institute Conference Saturday January 22, 2022. The Institute of Creation Research.
Do Gunter Bechly, Richard Sternberg not understand how evolution works? Do evolutionists understand how evolution works?
The Sternberg-Collins Paradox will be discussed, SINES and LINES and CTCF.
Youthful ancient fossils like Cycads, Sharks, Horseshoe Crabs and mutation rates.
The absurdity of saying birds and humans are Sarcopterygian fish. How about saying we're also Chanoflagellates! Linaenism vs. evolutionary biology, engineering vs. evolutionary biology.
Chimp vs. Human Centromeric DNA, problems for Primate Evolution.
Emory's Channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaKEYyS9ER0iKOoZnnowhQ
[Thumbnail is of Linnaeus]
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Regarding the chromosome mismatch in the centromeric regions: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030181
"Phylogenetic analyses confirm that human and chimpanzee HOR alpha-satellites share a common origin [23] that is evolutionarily distinct from the flanking peripheral monomeric sequences. Every major human alpha-satellite suprachromosomal family shares homologous sequences with chimpanzee (Figures 6A and S5), despite the fact that they map to nonorthologous chromosomes between the two species (Table 3)."
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Regarding they Cycad, and analysis I did for Dr. Sanford:
John,
You might be aware of some of this, but I wanted to pass it on to you just in case. If it is of interest, I can talk about it more when we meet.
Through browsing genomes, I noticed the lack on intra-specific variation, that is variation within the same species. The intra specific variation of humans is around 0.5% which indicate a most recent common ancestor (MRCA) not too far back in terms of geological time.
I was actually shocked to see this for just about every species I studied.
Epidemiologists have quietly recalibrated the molecular clock for bacteria apparently while studying diseases in the present day. The recalibration effect has been used to revise the MRCA of some bacterial species, but it's yet to take hold on the literature, no doubt, because of evolutionary ideology.
Since we had strains of cholera from 1937 pandemic still in our possession, we compared it to the 1961 pandemic and got molecular clock rates 100 times faster that previous estimates.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004053
Now using the recalibrated clocks other researchers in 2010 revised the MRCA date of one E. Coli strain (originally 14,000-312,000) down to 400 years.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008700
The revised ages show a previous error factor ranging from 35 to 780 too slow!
I applied a comparable correction factor using the recalibrated clock (a factor of 175 times faster) to one of Lenski's papers on E. Coli O157:H7 which he reported in 2005 with an MRCA date of 1.5 million years ago, and the figure I got after the correction was 8500 years.
By providence, there were a few papers that pointed out the surprising result that the MRCAs of all existing Cycads can't be older than 12 million years. The researchers expressed disappointment. I suspect they were hoping the MRCA would be in the 300 million year range. Even the figure of 12 million is suspect because they relied on evolutionary clocks and were consulting the paleontological record to do clock calibrations! If supposing the error factor present in their work is on the order of that we find for E. Coli, the MRCAs of the Cycads could be in the 10,000 year range. Here is a popular Cycad article.
http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2011/10/20/cycads-no-longer-living-fossils/
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best,
Sal
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