Erroneous assumption of Evolution BRAINS!

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Erroneous assumption of Evolution BRAINS!

Is this where zombies come from?

Yes Brother Nobar; eating the flesh and drinking the blood of another human being can result in the cannibal turning into a mindless drone possessed by their victim's thoughts. Worse yet these zombies will seek out other people to spread their zombism like a virus. Christianity has long observed this.

[Nobar King]

Re: Erroneous assumption of Evolution BRAINS!

Is this where zombies come from?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Erroneous assumption of Evolution BRAINS!

Does this gene also cause tusks to grow from their noses?

YIC
V

A reasonable enough question Brother V, however, the answer seems to lie in this site:

http://immersivemedical.com/nose-surgery_papua-new-guinea_2.html

I believe Obama's Heath Plan is based on a similar proposition.

[Brother V]

Re: Erroneous assumption of Evolution BRAINS!

Does this gene also cause tusks to grow from their noses?

YIC
V

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Brain-eating tribe enriches understanding of mad cow disease

It is sometimes difficult to see why so-called scientists persist in trotting out conclusions based on misinterpretation of data and fail to consider all the data.

Take this case below. As you read it, bear in mind this quotation,

Although the practice was banned in the 1950s and kuru has disappeared,

1. Who banned it? God.
2. How did He ban it? Through Landover Missionaries.
3. What was the Godly reward for obedience? No more pestilence!
4. Why did the missionaries ban it when God clearly says cannibalism is permissible?

DEU 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

There was no siege or straitness and the only enemies had been witchdoctors and other heathens who were slaughtered, as enemies of God, by the Missionaries.

I assure you, no True Christian™ would ever place “genes” or “prions” in the category of “evidence” or “data.”

Let there be no more talk of evolution.

A cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead tribespeople were eaten by their relatives has triggered one of the most striking examples of rapid human evolution on record, scientists have discovered.

In the middle of the 20th century the Fore tribe of the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea was devastated by a CJD-like disease called kuru, which was passed on by mortuary feasts in which the brains of the dead were consumed.

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Although the practice was banned in the 1950s and kuru has disappeared, it has left an imprint on the tribe’s DNA. Research has now identified a genetic mutation unique to the Fore that protects against the brain disease and which has spread swiftly through the population by natural selection.

As the mutation confers high or almost complete resistance to kuru, carriers have a survival advantage and have had more descendants. About 8 per cent of people from the Purosa Valley region, where kuru hit hardest, now have the gene, which is unknown anywhere else in the world.

The findings, from a team led by Simon Mead, of the Medical Research Council Prion Unit at University College London, show how quickly human evolution can respond to new environmental pressures.

They are described today in The New England Journal of Medicine as scientists prepare to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species on Tuesday.

Professor John Collinge, the director of the prion unit, said: “It’s absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people have developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable.”

The research is also significant because it promises to shed light on the rogue prion proteins that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease.

Dr Mead said: “It isn’t going to lead to a drug tomorrow but it would improve our background understanding of how prion diseases work and how they might be prevented.”

Oral histories provided by elderly members of the Fore tribe suggest that kuru emerged in the early 20th century and developed into a serious epidemic with an annual mortality rate of more than 2 per cent in some villages.

It mainly affected women and children, who would eat the remains of dead relatives. Kuru disappeared when cannibal rituals were stopped in the 1950s under the influence of missionaries.

In the new study scientists analysed the DNA of more than 3,000 people from affected and unaffected parts of the Eastern Highlands, including 709 who had taken part in cannibalistic rituals and 152 who had died of kuru.

The variant in the prion protein gene, called G127V, appears to have emerged about 1800 and then became advantageous with the arrival of kuru.

Dr Mead said that the variant would have spread rapidly for two reasons: “First, if you’re a carrier you’re resistant to the disease. More subtly, it also had benefits in terms of the relatives eaten. If you were in a family protected against kuru and ate auntie’s brain you were less likely to be eating an infected brain.”