dallashistory

We're evolving back to the topic of genealogy, and then back again to, well ... wherever it all began. Evolution itself could always proceed in a circular manner, you know. You may have posted pictures of our descendants (just kiddin')!

"I did actually look a lot like that when I was younger, only better, more rugged, more worldly." Yay! We need more of your kind invading our phenotypes; manifesting boldly in our genotypes. Bob Schneider is a Deutsch Mann, I believe, but no matter. It seems that a half-dozen generations spent on North-American soil has a way of its own in producing a sturdy physique (whether of the stocky or the lean variety). I don't know ~ the hands of native Englishmen are just ... beautiful and delicate, after a fashion. And English women have the loveliest complexions in the world, imho. They won't need fur again for a very long time! So, devolution must be slow if it is, and I'm glad I won't be around to catch the boomerang.

I'm still reading Stephen C. Meyer's Signature in the Cell. Good read about the science of the origins of first life. Despite his maddening habit of putting up strawmen that he can take down, I've learned a lot from him about what's happening right now in the scientific community about explaining how earth went from a planet with no life to a planet with life.

http://www.signatureinthecell.com/

That's a legitimate scientific concern. As far as anyone can tell for sure right now, first life has only originated once. It's possible, but unlikely to have been a chance event, in the sense that chance (relative frequency) is typically used in science. What can the signature in the cell tell us about the alternatives to chance?