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Simple common sense should tell you that more complex information is not created by disorder.

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fivepointer said:

Scientists are people with predisposed assumptions based on personal beliefs.

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nunciate said:

I'd like to ask what your beliefs recommend you do if a better explanation than the one you currently have surfaces.

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Lol, like you didn't already knew the answer.
The Gospel of course
Accept the gospel or bur in hell .

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The bottom line is that most scientists are not concerned with truth, but making theories to defend what they already believe, then cloaking this in high sounding jargon.

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Men are willfully ignorant of basic facts when it comes in conflict with beliefs.

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MushroomTrip said:

nunciate said:

I'd like to ask what your beliefs recommend you do if a better explanation than the one you currently have surfaces.

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Lol, like you didn't already knew the answer.
The Gospel of course
Accept the gospel or bur in hell .

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Mutations have never create new information that will result in the creation of a new species.

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Oregon said:

I consider evolution and mutation completly different things.

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A microscopic creature that hasn't had sex for 40 million years has stunned scientists by managing to evolve into different species.

Up to now most scientists assumed that asexual animals could not carry out natural selection processes quickly enough, if at all, to be able to produce new species.

And it had been thought that sexual reproduction was essential for forming new species because of the mixing of genes.

But researchers at Imperial College found that the microscopic aquatic animals bdelloid rotifers ARE subject to natural selection processes and have survived for so long by diverging into different species.

The creature - about a third of a millimetre in size - multiplies by producing clones of the mother, and there are no males.

By analysing the DNA and jaw measurements of bdelloid rotifers living in different environments across the UK, Italy and other areas, the research team found that distinct species existed.

And the diversification was surprising because it occurred not just because of isolation in certain habitats, or because of random mutations in the cloning process, but because of the different selection processes caused by those environments, as is common with sexual organisms.

Dr Tim Barraclough, who led the research, said it was groundbreaking.

He said: "This research has thrown open a new world of scientific interest because it poses the question 'Do we know everything we think we know about species divergence and even evolution itself?'.

"There has been a lot of scepticism about these organisms in particular, about how they had survived for so long, and now we have been able to put the issue to rest. And I think there will be a lot interest in the findings.

"What we've shown is that it is really natural selection that is helping these creatures survive."

He went on to describe the bdelloid rotifers as being "amazing creatures." He said: "We have always thought that asexual organisms like the rotifers should become extinct because they cannot perform natural selection quickly enough.

"These organisms are really unique because they've survived for millions of years - they are by far the strongest candidate from the asexual field to have lasted this long."

Dr Barraclough, from Imperial College, described one "remarkable" instance of diversification. They found two different species of rotifer living on the body of the same creature, a water louse, one round its legs and one on its chest. The species differed in body size and jaw shape according to the different habitats.

And he added that the techniques used in the study were revolutionary.

He said: "There have been other studies along the same lines which have used genetics as a basis only, but ours is the first to take into account morphology as well.

"I'm very excited about two things - how we can use these processes to analyse species variation in a wider range of organisms, and secondly how we can use the results to work out how the rotifers have been able to survive for so long."

Bdelloid rotifers live in watery or occasionally wet environments including soil, rivers and ponds

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The bottom line is that most scientists are not concerned with truth, but making theories to defend what they already believe, then cloaking this in high sounding jargon

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fivepointer said:

Scientists are people with predisposed assumptions based on personal beliefs. The origins of man reaches right down to what one believes. The bottom line is that most scientists are not concerned with truth, but making theories to defend what they already believe, then cloaking this in high sounding jargon.

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