āWolf Manā by Ariaera .
A cute little drawing, referencing āTwilight Princess.ā
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āWolf Manā by Ariaera .
A cute little drawing, referencing āTwilight Princess.ā

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A quote, though slightly misquoted, from the book āThe Time Keeperā by Mitch Albom. A good quote just the same, and it seemed appropriate for the image.
Itās sad, because itās true.
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āMaLink - Danceā by mr-tino.
This is very well done. They look so elegant.
āIām Yoursā by marthlovesroy. We all know this was a thing. Donāt kid yourselves.
āLink and Malonā by jankjabberwock. Arenāt they cute?
āProtect The Cowsā by Left-Handed Knight.
An illustration of āMajoraās Mask.ā
Samus looking kinda badass.
Art by kaj18.

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A cute fan art of Zero Suit Samus by LenLenBell.
āZero Suit Samusā by doghateburger.
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Itās actually a bit bewildering to me that several people I love and respect are skeptical of macroevolution because personally my belief in evolution is intrinsically linked to the reason I became Catholic
Like my love of natural history led me towards the Church because I saw the Church as a leader of science and and the pursuit of truth
And I felt that agnostic and atheist scientists didnāt have any explanation of where their senses of morality came from, so I deduced that our morality canāt be solely derived from deterministic principles like evolution, it has to have been taught to us by a higher power.
So itās a bit surreal to see a good Catholic person see macroevolution as fundamentally opposed to Christian theology and soteriology, cause thatās just so contrary to my entire foundation of belief
@msburgundy @catholicismandpharmacy I donāt really understand though. To me macroevolution is self-evident and simple, just the cumulation of small changes over a long time. Eventually the population will become so different that they canāt reproduce with their ancestral brethren anymore. And I donāt see what metaphysics has to do with it. Iām sorry I just donāt really grasp the rationale being used here.
for me itās not about metaphysics, itās that genomics doesnāt work like that
the reason we can observe microspeciation in single cellular organisms is not because of the short lifespan/reproduction, itās because of the size of the genome
when youāre working with say, idk Iāll pull from experience and go with a bacteriophage with a genome of about 40,000-70,000 base pairs
across a 47k bp genome, you might have 70 or so genes. each gene is coded with a start and stop and the lengths are variable.
a single nucleotide variation might do nothing, or change the protein structure, or be fatal. mutations are most often negligible or fatal.
on the next level, that single variation can change the codon. a codon is a group of 3 nucleotides which forms an amino acid. this can be negligible, or change the function of the codon. a mutation causing a stop codon to form mid gene is another fatal mutation.
a different nucleotide often will not change the amino acid, because there are multiple ways to form the same one, at which point the coding error is corrected and everything forms as usual.
in a small gene, a different amino acid can cause somewhat significant structural changes. these often do not lead to any phenotypic variation however, or they are typically suboptimal and die out.
the rate at which these mutations are retained is significantly higher in single cellular organisms because they reproduce asexually. in the absence of a new, untarnished set of genetic data, the cell will more likely repeat the same error
but weāre already at some pretty unimpressive odds for the occurance of mutation, that mutation then not being negligible or corrected, and then subsequently being inherited
when you raise the degree of complexity, this already meager number gets blown to astronomical improbability
the genome of a dog is 2.5 BILLION base pairs, the length of a single gene is larger than the entire genome in the bacteriophage example. there are far more moving parts, which means need for more significant change to affect anything and a higher potential for fatality if there is a structural change.
things donāt form part way slowly, the idea that hands to feet was a gradual change makes no sense when you consider that any in between stage is unusable. thereās no proto-foot, and thereās no reasonable way for that to form except a sudden massive change. and then that has to be passed down, which is anyoneās guess as to the probability of that because it depends entirely on the structure of the gene itself and the fact that most large scale change is affected by more than one gene
and when you go from asexual to sexual reproduction, you are now battling the fact that you have two sets of DNA and that in the presence of mutation or transcription error DNA will often be pulled from the other X chromosome.
no matter how generous you are with your probability estimate, and even if the earth is as old as the most generous estimate, thereās no way we could possibly have had enough time
because no amount of time will ever be enough to accidentally go against all laws of nature on a macro scale
Hmmm that makes a bit more sense lol
But tbh that could also indicate the presence of an outside force interfering with the probabilities, like a Creator. And I have been operating under that assumption for much of my life. Iām just really bad at understanding genetics
While its possible that it is operated by a Creator outside the universe, science is the way we DESCRIBE what the Creator is doing. Yes, theoretically the Creator could do anything outside the binary ārulesā we have assigned to things, but then, what would be the point of the Creator making those rules?
^if God was just gonna bend biology to have us evolve, why bother having us macroevolve into modern humans into the first place?
personally, my skepticism of macroevolution has nothing to do with religion. i have no theological qualms with it being true, iāve just had too many holes in the theory pointed out to me for me to unquestioningly accept it as fact.
Itās said that āyou donāt look for God in what you donāt know; look for God in what you do knowā or something to that effect. Couldnāt these little āirregularitiesā and āskipsā in what you might call āholes,ā just be the thumbprint of a creator?
āIrreplaceableā from āMetroid : Other M.ā If you didnāt feel even the slightest something when you first saw this, you have no soul.
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Actually, the first European to reach North America was an Irishman; St. Brendan on Clonfert (St. Brendan the Navigator). The tale of St. Brendanās voyage was well known in Europe for centuries, even inspiring Christopher Columbus, who travelled to Ireland himself to follow up on their claims, and even had Irishmen as part of his crew. The Vikings themselves said, they were inspired to sail west, after hearing the tales of several monks who had done them same, Modern analysis of the places described in the tale, seem to describe some of the islands the Norse found, such as Iceland and Greenland.
In the 1970s, British explorer Tim Severin, recreated the vessel as described in the book, and sailed in to North America. More an more archaeological artifacts are turning up all the time, that also indicate, that the first Europeans in North America, were just a group of monks in a small boat, talking about God.

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A fantastic piece by Ninto. Iāve seen some art like this before. Very well done.
A quote, though slightly misquoted, from the book āThe Time Keeperā by Mitch Albom. A good quote just the same, and it seemed appropriate for the image.