Video trailer for the Crossway Theistic Evolution book

[Jonathan_Burke (Jon)]

@r_speir

If this proposal develops and gains traction, it will set evolutionary science back 150 years, and throw it on its rear-end where it belongs.

Please write it up and submit it to a professional journal. Amaze the world with your deep genetic insights.

[Christy (Christy Hemphill)]

@r_speir

If this proposal develops and gains traction, it will set evolutionary science back 150 years, and throw it on its rear-end where it belongs.

Sure it will.

[T_aquaticus]

@r_speir

I’m guessing by now you realize that you have no argument against this proposal using modern genetics because today’s science concerns itself only with specie or close-specie reproduction. The scenario I am describing would be a venture into deep cross-specie science, something that is outside all textbook genetics. If Nephilim mated with concurrent beasts (and apocryphal literature says they did) and conception occurred, you frankly have no idea what would have been produced. It may very well have been today’s identical chimpanzee! - and all in the first generation offspring!

We do know what would be produced. Half of the genome would be nearly 100% identical to the Nephilim genome and the other half would be nearly 100% identical to whatever species the Nephilim mated with. It’s how diploid genomes work. Do you remember those Punnet squares from grade school?

@r_speir

If this proposal develops and gains traction, it will set evolutionary science back 150 years, and throw it on its rear-end where it belongs.

Your own knowledge of genetics hasn’t even caught up with Mendelian genetics which is 150 years old. Perhaps you should actually learn how genetics works before you tout its demise.

[DennisVenema]

@r_speir

only with specie or close-specie reproduction

Just a quick comment, because this is a pet peeve of mine…

“Species” is both the singular and the plural. One species, two species, etc. “Specie” is not a word in this context.

Yes, yes, I know.

/pedant

[jpm (Phil McCurdy)]

I am just glad we are not discussing plurals of octopus. Something else I learned from Xkcd.
octopus | Etymology, origin and meaning of octopus by etymonline
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/928:_Mimic_Octopus

[Jonathan_Burke (Jon)]

@DennisVenema

“Species” is both the singular and the plural. One species, two species, etc. “Specie” is not a word in this context.

Paging John Garvey.

[beaglelady]

This is so insightful! Should I start an incubus thread?

[gbrooks9 (George Brooks)]

@T_aquaticus

We might as well propose that the babies were cocooned in a 4th dimension that reduced their mass and size, and upon birth they were quantum teleported out of the womb.

@T_aquaticus and @beaglelady

The suggestion that the womb is actually a 4-dimensional “matrix” (the Latin word for womb) that accommodates volumes well in excess of its apparent size would go a long way to explain monthly cramping …