RE: Unbroken Mitochondrial line?
April 9, 2017 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2017 at 12:53 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 9, 2017 at 11:09 am)SamWatson Wrote:(April 9, 2017 at 10:39 am)Mermaid Wrote: First of all, mitochondria are derived from endocytosed bacteria, not mammals. They have a completely different genetic structure.
"completely different genetic structure". It is worth repeating: animals and humans have completely different genetic structure.
Why is it worth repeating?
It is because it appears to shallow thinkers to support a preconceived notion derived of an ancient Bedouin holy book in which they are still stupidly emotionally vested in the 21st century, and to which they seek to lend a 21 century sounding gravitas by pretending it is supported by sciency things they completely do not understand?
As it happens, many of us do understand it, and we understand the underlying science to a much greater depth than there is to understand in chapter and verse of any holy book why what you think to be worth repeating above is shallow, infantile, and above all, demonstrably false, bullshit.
Now repeat the actual fact: all animals and humans have identical basic genetic structure, differing only in details.. Facts are worth repeating, and yet are so even if unrepeated. Bullshit concocted to defend the biblical fantasy of what the world ought to be are not worth repeating, for no amount of repeating of what seems ought to be would ever advance the cause of making them so by a millimeter.
Why would that be? Could it be because the humans are animals and are rendered different from other animals only over time and only by the same minor incremental, naturally selected detailed genetic mutations which had also overtime made other animals different from each other?
And no. Bacteria are not animals. Words have meanings, all of god's creatures are not animals, and for that matter none of them are god's. But even bacteria's basic genetic structure, different from animals in many ways, share sufficient deeper commonalities to show they are quite related, and diverged from each other relatively late into the evolution, yes, evolution, of life on earth.
