10th April 2009, 5:08 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:lazy you seem to be misunderstanding me. That's understandable as I didn't really make myself clear.
Yes cells respond to their environment. However, that is not the method by which they evolve, which is what I was talking about. They evolve due to changes during reproduction which are selected for or against by their surrounding environment. Evolution does not occur in a single creature. It occurs in a population.
Oh, by the way, you really have no basis to propose anything. THAT WAS AN APRIL FOOL'S DAY JOKE OF AN ARTICLE! It's FAKE!
Your examples are lemarcism by the way. And, you've got to provide evidence for them. What experiments have you ever done to actually demonstrate this? You're essentially claiming that you, a film student, have some total revolution of the understanding of evolution, only minus any actual evidence on your part, which flies in the face of over a century of research by thousands of biologists.
Further, you are anthropomorphising cells way too much. Cells don't "know" anything. They don't "fight for their life" with any willing intent. They survive and act as they do because their behaviors led to their survival, and the behaviors that didn't died off.
The thing is, I've been taking a lot of time to research biology lately. I've learned a lot. However, this poor misunderstanding of evolution as something an individual actively does as a willing gambit to survive is NOT in anything I've ever read.
That's honestly too bad about the article, but its funny because this debate has gone on for years in the study of evolution. So disappointment city. D;
What does film have to do with this particular subject? I'm also long sense graduated so I dont really qualify as a 'student' in that sense, but I dont get your meaning. I suppose within film you realize the need of study and research to develop realism which, in science fiction among others, can mean having to soak up entire volumes of info before turning it on its ear for the purposes of the story. I suppose you were making reference that a person who specifically went to film school isn't capable of discerning or understanding complicated issues within modern sciences. I also have a degree in computers, latin, taxonomy and horticulture blah blah pissing in the wind and beer. And if you know me at all and i'd hope you do by now, you would know that I love to shove my head in to the asses of anyone who's willing to talk anything concerning the existence of everything.
When I propose something it's not because i'm throwing out a guess. Evolution is still *unproven* and that's a kick in the balls if you ask me. Yunno what's also funny? Human cells haven't changed at all in 4 millions years. But the host keeps on a'changin. Kinda... creepy, doncha think? Single celled organisms are nature's perfect organism with ***billions of years*** of evolution backing up their perfection. They're using us. Literally, like our understanding of parasites and viruses and ...If that doesn't make you shit brix I dont know what will! Think of this: a single virion can infiltrate the very polymerization of deoxyribonucleotides before its freakin DNA! It knows what it wants. Its not 'life' on the projected scale that we understand it to be but when something can seek out and either kill, replace or absorb something else to create more of itself or something brand new you have to really start evaluating how much of the rules need to be bent or broken.