Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Ron Dean Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: West Virginia creationism Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:33:14 -0400 Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Lines: 55 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <%AzVN.19359$8tL7.11884@fx09.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="20031"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13.4; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id C38DC229782; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:33:20 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F7D229765 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:33:18 -0400 (EDT) id 4B6E45DC2C; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 416345DC29 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:33:18 +0000 (UTC) by nntpmail01.iad.omicronmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4EB8E050F for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:33:15 +0000 (UTC) id A243322801A0; Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:33:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Path: fx13.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail In-Reply-To: X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:33:14 UTC Bytes: 5113 Martin Harran wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:27:09 -0400, Ron Dean > wrote: > >> John Harshman wrote: >>> On 4/26/24 6:06 PM, Ron Dean wrote: >>>> Ernest Major wrote: >>>>> On 26/04/2024 02:31, Ron Dean wrote: >>>>>> I think due to gradual increasing genetic errors and increase rate >>>>>> of deleterious mutations each generation becomes  less fit than the >>>>>> preceding generation, so in the passing spans of time the genes of a >>>>>> species become less and less incapable of reproduction or species >>>>>> survival. This could account for many of 99%+ of of all species that >>>>>> ever lived that have gone extinct. Of course the dinosaurs became >>>>>> extinct due to a 6 mile diameter meteor striking the Earth. Also >>>>>> changing weather the coming and going of ice ages; as well massive >>>>>> volcano eruptions  accounts for extinction of many species for >>>>>> example in Siberia. >>>>> >>>>> Are you taking a progressive creationist position, in which your >>>>> Intelligent Designer is continuously creating species de novo? Or are >>>>> you claiming that the current 10 million (+/- a lot) species biota is >>>>> the remnant of a much richer biota of a billion species? >>>>> >>>>> For your information, the conclusion drawn from the fossil record is >>>>> that (for multicellular eukaryotes at least) species diversity has >>>>> been generally increasing over time (though with big setbacks at >>>>> times of mass extinction). >>>>> >>>> This thread is going nowhere and I've some pressing issues I have to >>>> deal with. So, hopefully I'll be back soon. >>>> >>> Ernest had just made an attempt, above, to get the thread going >>> somewhere, and your response is to bail? This says something about you, >>> and it's not good. >>> >> I'm back. I got some bad news from my 6 months physical examine, and >> spent a few days in the hospital. I've had some health issues, but this >> latest diagnoses is the same condition that took my father's life. It's >> very concerning an depressing. > > I'm sorry to hear that and hope things turn out better than you fear. > You must be pretty stressed out about this and, if TO is causing you > additional stress, you might be better to take a longer break from it. > If it's any comfort to you, I will include you in my prayers. > Thank You, Martin I have to give up certain foods because or the high potassium such as bananas, potatoes etc. - there's a list. Hopefully, by doing this I won't have to go on dialysis. > >> >