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| jon-nyc | Oct 31 2011, 11:02 AM Post #251 |
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You were unable to link the study's findings to Jolly's conclusion without adding an unsupported and somewhat ridiculous assumption. |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 31 2011, 11:05 AM Post #252 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Not sure I get that, Moonbat. While appreciating the limitations of analogy (no mechanical fallacy) metals can be composed to form an airplane or a spoon. The same metals, organized differently, produce different sorts of things. The basic nucleotides in all types of DNA are alike, aren't they? Plant DNA and pig DNA and human DNA have different sequences and different combinations and different amounts of nucleotides, but isn't it at the level of DNA that we can really speak of differentiation? If so, then the question of "human nature" should be addressed at the level of the sort of DNA that constitutes a "human being". |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 31 2011, 11:09 AM Post #253 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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No, Jolly seems to have had a competent grasp of the material. You seem to have missed the whole point of the study until I pointed out that your concern was not germane to the purpose of the study. Why don't you actually try to build an argument to defend your position about Jolly's interpretation while giving due respect to the words of the article and the words of Jolly's posts, rather than rehash the rest. Earlier I asked you to do that, but you seem to be avoiding that. |
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| Moonbat | Oct 31 2011, 11:30 AM Post #254 |
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Basically yes DNA is made of the same 4 nucleotides regardless of the organism what differs is the sequence of those nucleotides.
In common parlance talking about genes is equivalent to talking about DNA sequences. |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 31 2011, 11:33 AM Post #255 |
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OK, which is why I had written "a "genetic" basis strictly speaking". So why do you find these sentences incoherent? |
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| Moonbat | Oct 31 2011, 11:35 AM Post #256 |
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Because you said "DNA not genes" when genes are DNA sequences. |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 31 2011, 11:52 AM Post #257 |
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Oh, OK, sorry about that. So on what level would you differentiate a human being from a pig or a plant? The genome? The chromosome? The allelomorph? |
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