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Helping Evolutionists Get It Right
By Karl C. Priest November 3, 2008 (revised 2-7-2010)
NOTE: Sadly evolutionists cannot be helped by this tongue-in-cheek article. Evolutionists “willingly are ignorant as the Bible proclaims. The purpose of this piece was to help objective seekers of truth to see that evolution has nothing to do with science. By removing useless references to “evolution” (even without inserting something about creation) would not affect reports of scientific research. On February 7, 2010 my final entry is about butterfly coloration. Fittingly, butterflies are best known for their transition from one type of creature to a totally different creature. That metamorphosis (transformation) is symbolic of the only think that will help evolutionists. Evolutionist caterpillars (metaphorically speaking) will only be able to experience the view that creationist butterflies can see by going through a spiritual metamorphosis—being born again. The way to do that can be found by clicking on the butterfly button “Get Saved” on the left.
With just a little tweaking evolutionist propaganda can be made accurate and truthful. I demonstrate how to do that in this article.
An easy step toward reality is to omit the useless modifier of biology from “evolutionary biology” or “evolutionary biologist”. “Biology” and “biologist” work just find and actually have scientific meaning.
In the following excerpts from actual scientific reports I have off set with < > in italics the inaccurate (or lying) words of the original and inserted in bold inside < > the facts (or truth). Where I had to make some comments I put my words in bold inside [ ].
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A lot of the malarkey mused by monkey-men fits well into my article “BWAH HAH HAH HAAAA!”. Originally that is what I did. In September 2009 I arbitrarily started placing the snips into one or the other. If you like this article, you also should read the other one.
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These butterflies have been studied since Darwin's day because they are such a striking example of <adaptation> <design>. For years, scientists have pondered whether when different species <evolve> <were designed> to look the same, they share a common genetic mechanism.
According to Jiggins: "It's interesting because it tells us how flexible <evolution> <God’s creation> is. If you get the same wing pattern <evolving> <occurring> independently in different populations, do you expect the same genes to be involved?"
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/uoc-htb020410.php
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Dr. Logan suggests that mosquitoes may deem hosts that emit more of these chemicals to be diseased or injured and "not a good quality blood meal." Proteins in the blood are necessary for female mosquitoes to produce fertile eggs, and Dr. Logan says it might be <evolutionarily advantageous> <a design feature> for mosquitoes to detect and avoid such people. [I recommend reading “ The Dragonfly’s Demise” ]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204660604574378933761528214.html?mod=rss_Today's_Most_Popular
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After 30 years of physiological research, the visual processing pathway mediating wide-field motion detection in insects is among the best studied of all neural pathways. We are using knowledge acquired about the key stages of motion analysis, in combination with our recent studies of adaptive properties of insect motion detectors, to develop and model 'biomimetic' algorithms based on insect vision. The assumption is that <170 million years of evolution have> <God designed> optimised efficiency in ways that may not be inherently obvious if we take a 'bottom up' approach to the problem.
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/davidoc/projects.html
Vision guides flight behaviour in numerous insects. Despite their small brain, insects easily outperform current man-made autonomous vehicles in many respects…One recipe for their success is the <adaptation> <design> of visual information processing to the specific requirements of the behavioural tasks and to the specific spatiotemporal properties of the natural input.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science (search “insect vision”)
Discerning a target amongst visual  clutter is a complicated task that has been elegantly <solved by> <designed into> flying insects, as evidenced by their mid-air interactions with conspecifics and prey. The neurophysiology of small-target motion detectors (STMDs) underlying these complex behaviors has recently been described...We review not only the underlying mechanisms involved in this tuning but also how recently proposed models provide a possible explanation for another remarkable property of these neurons  their ability to respond robustly to the motion of targets even against moving backgrounds
http://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/abstract/S0166-2236(09)00091-5
Using insects, we can discover how visual systems extract local cues or features and then assemble these to detect coherent and meaningful patterns. Flying insects use the patterns of optic flow induced by self-motion to control flight, much as we use the patterns of flow projected on a video screen to control a plane that we pilot on a flight simulator or video game. The patterns are coded by large, motion sensitive neurons that can be anatomically identified by dye-injection and recorded from for extended periods. These neurons and the motion detection pathway are among the best described and understood of all visual pathways.
In such a well established system we can determine the ways in which neurons and neural circuits <have evolved> <were designed> to operate effectively under different conditions. Does <adaptation> <the design> promote the efficiency with which higher order "pattern processing" circuits operate? We are investigating several aspects of < adaptation> <this design> in motion detecting networks. We combine electrophysiological recording methods with computer modelling, to establish what neurons do and why they do it.
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/davidoc/projects.html
Ongoing work is aimed at refining our observation of tuning of motion detector responses to visual ecology (see above). In a related project, we are investigating the ways in which dynamic adaptation of the motion pathway might help 're-tune' the system to different pattern speeds. <Adaptation> <This design> in both this dynamic sense and as an <evolutionary phenomenon> <example of God’s genius>, may represent fundamentally similar processes operating on different time scales, optimizing the performance of the visual system for the demands imposed by behaviour…we are investigating the ways in which optical eye design of diurnal versus nocturnal insects (particularly moths) and these neural properties combine to 'optimize' vision at different light levels.
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/davidoc/projects.html
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Professor Pete Vukusic of the University of Exeter said: "<Natural> <created> systems are packed with inspirational designs that have evolved to serve key biological functions Developing scientific knowledge about where to look and then how to take technological or industrial insight from them is an increasingly important practise, especially in this current financial climate. On this occasion, the Cyphochilus beetle has bridged the distance between university research and industrial application. There are a great many other <natural> <created> systems awaiting discovery or detailed study that will certainly do the same."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoe-bsi061009.php
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Bees – besides the honey bee there are over 600 species of wild bees in Switzerland – are herbivores that <have specialized> <were designed to specialize> in high-protein pollen as their staple diet <in the course of evolution>. <Omit this anti-science lie.>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517214622.htm
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Therefore it is not surprising that <evolution> <God> has optimized the behavior of the ants (or all social insects).
http://www.physorg.com/news157627187.html
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We then examined genome-wide changes in expression in the selected flies relative to unselected controls, both of which had been infected with the pathogen. This powerful combination of techniques allowed us to specifically identify the genetic basis of the <evolved> <designed> immune response. In response to <selection> <this design>, population-level survivorship to infection increased from 15% to 70%. The <evolved> <developed> capacity for defense was costly, however, as evidenced by reduced longevity and larval viability and a rapid loss of the trait once selection pressure was removed.
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1000385
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By choosing insecticides that act more slowly, or that specifically target older mosquitoes, researchers may be able to prevent the <evolution> <development> of pesticide resistance, a problem that has long bedeviled malaria control efforts.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/407/2
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It's not just insects that could be used as snoops. Researchers have already developed remote control systems for rats, pigeons and even sharks. The motivation is simple: why labour for years to build robots that imitate the ways animals move when you can just plug into living creatures and hijack systems <already optimised by millions of years of evolution>? <that God created> "There's a long history of trying to develop micro-robots that could be sent out as autonomous devices, but I think many engineers have realised that they can't improve on <Mother Nature> <God’s creation>," says insect neurobiologist John Hildebrand at the University of Arizona in Tucson. [I see this type of comment frequently. Blinded to reality and seeking to deny God, evolutionists are forced to refer to a god(ess) such as “Mother Nature”.]
[After a lengthy article describing the hugely complicated research the blinder-brained writer concludes with this unbelievabley foolish I found this quote from a leading scientist]: “Engineers have been attempting to gain control of insects' bodies for some time, to act as discreet spies or to take advantage of their advanced sense of smell to detect chemicals or explosives.” [I had difficulty deciding whether or not to put that brain-bustin quote here or in BWAH HAH HAH HAAAA!]
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726461.800-the-cyborg-animal-spies-hatching-in-the-lab.html
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So how exactly does an ant go about forming partnerships with a fungus and a bacterium? No one really knows. With new advances in molecular and genetic technologies, such as whole-genome sequencing, Professor Currie and Dr Suen <hope to discover how these associations were established, and to understand how these interactions resulted in the remarkable fungus-growing ability of the ants.> [I cannot easily reword this part because it is a waste of time and money since the goals of their research is to discover things they will not admit were established by the Creator. Society and science would be better served if they sought to discover ways to use this God-given ant ability to help mankind. See my article Thank God for Insects.]
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082048.htm
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[Usually, as you will see as you continue reading, it is easy to help evolutionist present the truth.]
One of the most important developments in human civilisation was the practice of sustainable agriculture. But we were not the first - ants have been doing it <for over 50 million years> <since they were created>.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/sfgm-fac111408.php
Caterpillars destroy plants by feeding on leaves, flowers, and fruits. But they have a predator of their own: the wasp. To defend itself, the caterpillar <has developed> <was created with> sensory hairs that "feel" the air vibrations caused by the beating of wasp wings.
http://www.newsguide.us/education/science/Hey-Caterpillar-Buzz-Off/
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"Some insects <have adapted to> <were created for> life underwater by using this bubble as an external lung," said John Bush, associate professor of applied mathematics
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/miot-lia073008.php
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Watch a pond closely and you'll likely see hundreds of little water striders zipping across the water with remarkably long, thin feet. What determines the precise length of the bugs' feet? A new calculation suggests that <evolution> <the creator> has optimized their length: They're just long enough to support the maximum possible weight without adding needless drag.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/808/2
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The genes that make a fruit fly’s eyes red also produce red wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly found in South and Central America, finds a new study by a UC Irvine entomologist.
“We found that <evolutionis> <creation was> achieved primarily through recycling old genes into new functions, as opposed to <evolving> <creating> entirely new genes from scratch,” Reed said.
Within one species of the butterfly genus Heliconius, more than 20 distinct wing patterns can exist in different geographic regions. Over time, the Heliconius <evolves> <can vary> to look like local unrelated butterfly species that are poisonous to birds, a phenomenon called mimicry.
“It is a very basic textbook example of <natural selection> <superb engineering>,” Reed said. “If you look like you’re poisonous, you’re not going to get eaten and you can produce offspring.”
http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1684
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Evolutionary Biologists from the University of Virginia -- Nick Priest, Laura Galloway and Deborah Roach -- manipulated the mating frequency of female fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, and observed how mating frequency affected the lifetime reproductive output of those females and their daughters.
They found that frequent mating decreased maternal survival and reproductive output, but increased the reproductive output of daughters.
This finding indicates that cross-generational fitness effects may play an important role in <evolution of> <just delete the italicized words> mating frequency in the fruit fly and may have a more general role in life history evolution.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080104174025.htm
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D. melanogaster varieties that have been bred in laboratories for years, especially Canton-S and both Oregon-R-C and R-S, were not as selective in the experiments as the newly collected Swedish Helsingborg flies were. This may be the result of genetic differences between varieties that <evolved> <developed> in different geographical locations, or the consequence of artificial selection of the flies - in the course of breeding them in the labs of geneticists and neurobiologists.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123995.php
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[Referring to critters that a pine beele carries.] In addition, this study shows how the symbiotic relationships between plants, animals, and microbes are essential for the diversification of life and <evolution> <survival> of organisms.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/hms-ckc092908.php
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Beyond that, these insect attacks are actually <nature's> <God’s> mechanism to help restore forest health on a long-term basis and in many cases should be allowed to run their course, according to Oregon State University scientists in a new study published this week in the journal Conservation Biology In Practice.
As these systems <add which God created> become more fully understood, Schowalter said, it should be possible to work with insects, rather than against them…"We have to pay more than lip service to the balance of <nature> <God’s creation>."
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2001/Oct01/insects.htm
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"It may be that some organisms <evolved> <have or were created with> symbioses (cooperative relationships) as a strategy to give them an advantage over others when competing for resources
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/nsf-bgb100208.php
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Asian and European honeybees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having <evolved> < just delete the italicized word> different forms of communication, an international research team has shown for the first time.
The nine species of honeybees found worldwide <separated about 30 to 50 million years ago, and subsequently developed> <have> different dance 'languages'. The content of the messages is the same, but the precise encoding of these languages differs between species.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080604074930.htm
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The team tested the ability of 180 bees to learn that yellow flowers provided the biggest nectar rewards, and to ignore blue flowers. To test the <evolutionary> < just delete the italicized word> relationship between learning and immunity, they also took workers from the same colonies and tested their immune response against bacterial infection.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/qmuo-bsb103008.php
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Fruit flies and humans share most of their genes, including 70 percent of all known human disease genes. Taking advantage of this remarkable <evolutionary conservation> <design feature>, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies transformed the fruit fly into a laboratory model for an innovative study of gliomas, the most common malignant brain tumors.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/si-ffs021109.php
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See, it’s easy to be honest and factual. If you are not a creationist you can still get it correct with mostly deleting unnecessary (untruthful) words.
Try it on your own. It's almost always very easy and it sure is whole lot of fun!
Addenda
Sometimes scientists can get it right on their own. Bold font is mine.
Lead researcher, Dr Holger Krapp, from Imperial's Department of Bioengineering says the pathway from visual signal to head movement is ingeniously designed: it uses information from both eyes, is direct, and does not require heavy computing power. He continues:
"Anyone who has watched one fly chasing another at incredibly high speed, without crashing or bumping into anything, can appreciate the high-end flight performance of these animals.
http://www.physorg.com/news135917718.html
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