François Sarre Asks, 'Will an Exemplar of Obligate Bipedalism in Those Hominoids That Bequeathed It Only to Hominid Species Stand Up . . . Please? Where Is Bigfoot Hiding Himself Out?'

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/biology/desarre.htm

François Sarre is no shrinking violet when it comes to his acceptance of hominid evolution; he accepts the theory. His little pictograph (see below) humorously sums up his belief about what the major fossil specimens salient to the paleoanthropologists' theories of hominid evolution -- as the fossil specimens relate to what he alleges was retention of obligate bipedalism only in the hominid species --, would teach us, if we would but view those fossils specimens as he views them. He uses a pictograph that begins with an upright, obligate bipedal (human) that seemingly descends into creatures that have lost obligate bipedalism. It is a simplistic pictograph, because it does not represent in him a belief that chimpanzees and the great apes are descended from humans, but rather that those species are our cousin descendants, descended from certain hominoids whereby 'in that descent of our cousin species from bipedal hominoids there gradually became the loss of obligate bipedalism -- though it was once present in certain hominoid ancestors (and may yet be represented by certain of those species that have survived into historical times here on earth, and maybe still do).' The theory here has it that there was an ancestor common to humans and the great apes who was an obligate bipedal creature, but that in the lines that branched off from him, 'the obligate bipedalism he owned came to be lost in some branches of his descendants, it being retained, in fact, only in the branch that became, in time, according to François de Sarre's theory, homo sapiens.'

It's a wild, wild West out there when it comes to paleoanthropologists' theories. Who among them wields the fastest spade for remarkably finding and digging out other fossil specimens just right for added support of some alternative theory he trumpets?




© François de Sarre
Published in Animals & Men, Issue Six

 

Distance-responsive genes found in dancing honey bees

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00622.x/full

Distance-responsive genes found in dancing honey bees

The link above is to an article that its authors would hardly acknowledge does the following thing in their discussion of the honey bee genome: in effect, the article shows that there is descriptive modeling of genetically programmed honey bee behaviors that are mathematically sensible/presentable, but the authors apparently do not agree that we may argue that the modeling they present shows forth God's wisdom. The concluding paragraph states, "Results indicate that the responsiveness of the genome to social information extends to inputs that require the formation of quantitative representations in the brain . . . One challenge in [deterministic] behavioral genomics is to elucidate how brain genomic responses lead to adaptive behavior. Distance measurement joins a growing number of naturally occurring and experimentally accessible traits [-- well, after all, probably all are agreed that the traits are not traits 'acquired through "dint of free will" intrinsic to honey bee Mind (self awareness-driven mentational properties in honey bees)' --] that will help us to solve this important problem." (Emphases are mine, Al Kidd's.)

Ah, Yes! "Important problem" indeed! for the evolutionists' theory that these behaviors in honey bees are result of something other than the ordaining will and creative power belonging to the owner of a Mind pre-existing the honey bee's existence itself ought to be seen by materialists as a theory fatally driven through by Karl Popper's "sword" (i.e., evolution is not a falsifiable theory), but is a theory shot through with incredible naiveté as we can see evidenced when evolutionists assert that the honey bee's behavioral genomics is not evidence of intelligent design, but that the challenge for them "is to elucidate how brain genomic responses [can blindly pursue and successfully] lead to adaptive behavior." Their naiveté is borne of their wish to resist the logical implication of the necessity of Mind (the Creator, God) reflected in creation.

The introductory and, again, the concluding paragraphs are presented below without my commentary.

"We report that regions of the honey bee brain involved in visual processing and learning and memory show a specific genomic response to distance information. These results were obtained with an established method that separates effects of perceived distance from effects of actual distance flown. Individuals forced to shift from a short to perceived long distance to reach a feeding site showed gene expression differences in the optic lobes and mushroom bodies relative to individuals that continued to perceive a short distance, even though they all flew the same distance. Bioinformatic analyses suggest that the genomic response to distance information involves learning and memory systems associated with well-known signaling pathways, synaptic remodeling, transcription factors and protein metabolism. By showing distance-sensitive brain gene expression, our findings also significantly extend the emerging paradigm of the genome as a dynamic regulator of behavior, that is particularly responsive to stimuli important in social life....

"Our results indicate that the responsiveness of the genome to social information extends to inputs that require the formation of quantitative representations in the brain . . . One challenge in behavioral genomics is to elucidate how brain genomic responses lead to adaptive behavior. Distance measurement joins a growing number of naturally occurring and experimentally accessible behavioral traits that will help us solve this important problem."