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Geez y’know, I still need to get to the Big Bang stuff, and I keep getting more questions than I can keep up with. (Biology, Physics, Theology) Remember it’s like 10 against 1 on here. But I did have at least most of mine listed on one post. LOL

Ok since most you love to discuss evolution once life has already started, which is still skipping over major flaws…

If evolution is true, how did we get from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction? Which evolved first male or female? To get to sexual reproduction you have to find two of the opposite sex in the same place at the same time.

If evolution is true, how do you explain symbiotic relationships? You want some facts, here are some facts.

The following have been observed:

1) Termites cannot digest cellulose.
2) They can only chew it up and swallow it.
3) The little critters that live in their intestines digest the cellulose.
4) Those critters cannot live outside of the termite.
5) And the termite cannot live without those critters.

If they evolved, so which one evolved first, and how could each one survive without the other one?

Yabor, you stated that everything is random. If that’s true, how can you write a coherent sentence down on this forum? How come it wasn’t…..dkjwoeur23405hg54hyujrghhgajherwjtkaiu21n cxzli9wj290gmw90et23

Your thoughts are not random thoughts. You do think. I hope you do anyway.

There is extreme order in things you might not notice. The DNA in your body during development tells your body where to generate the nose, ears, eyes, mouth, fingers, sexual organs, etc. If everything is random chance then how come we don’t see every single person being way different? Eyes on one “person” would be on their arm, that’s if there arm wasn’t attached to their behind, their nose would be upside down and on their forehead, etc. If it was truly random, it would be a mess. I don't even want to think where the sexual organ would end up! LOL

Going back to the sickle-cell anemia thing….

Sickle-cell anemia is a bad thing plain and simple. It will cause many other things to kill you. So what you are saying is, once you have this particular disease, you can't get this other disease. But dude, you are still susceptible to many others. If you have a disease to start with you are not better off. Now listen carefully....

A person with sickle-cell anemia is missing the information needed in their DNA to produce correctly formed red blood cells (loss of information). Sickle cell anemia affects the hemoglobin gene by encoding the wrong protein in the RNA protein synthesis that normally builds and maintains hemoglobin. The “mutation” is not a positive thing. (Since the DNA “program” RNA is not working the way it’s supposed to, but it’s still all the same information, just scrambled. If it was working in the correct order there cannot be an abnormal amount of hemoglobin) It doesn’t make you a healthier person because if you have it, nothing can be more opposite.

The symptoms of sickle cell disease are caused by abnormal hemoglobin. Hemoglobin, the main protein inside red blood cells, carries oxygen from the lungs and takes it to every part of the body. Normally, red blood cells are round and flexible and flow easily through blood vessels. But in sickle cell disease, the abnormal hemoglobin causes red blood cells to become stiff and, under the microscope, may look like a C-shaped farm tool called a sickle. These stiffer red blood cells can get stuck in tiny blood vessels, cutting off the blood supply to nearby tissues. This is what causes pain (called a sickle cell pain episode or crisis) and sometimes organ damage in sickle cell disease. Sickle-shaped red blood cells also die and break down more quickly than normal red blood cells, resulting in anemia.

Now you can say it is a "benefit" because you can't get malaria, but am I really better off because I have SCA? When you have sickle-cell anemia, you are more susceptible to:

Infections
Infants and young children with sickle cell disease are especially vulnerable to serious bacterial infections, such as those that cause meningitis (infection of the lining of the brain) and blood infection. Infections are a major cause of death in children with sickle cell disease.

Pain episodes
Pain can occur in any organ or joint in the body, wherever sickle-shaped cells pile up and block blood vessels. Mild pain episodes can be treated at home with over-the-counter pain medications (such as acetaminophen and ibuprofen) and heating pads. But some pain episodes may be severe and need to be treated in the hospital with strong pain-killing drugs given intravenously (in a vein).

Hand-foot syndrome
Hands and feet may swell when small blood vessels become blocked.

Stroke
If sickle-shaped cells block a blood vessel in the brain, a stroke can result.

Acute chest syndrome
This is similar to pneumonia, with symptoms such as difficulty breathing, chest pain and fever. It can be caused by an infection or by blocked blood vessels in the lung.

Vision problems
When tiny blood vessels in the eye become blocked with sickle-shaped cells, vision problems and even blindness can result.


Wow, sickle-cell anemia is such a positive thing.

So how does having a disease, and not getting another disease, create new information to spawn forth progress that evolution needs?

Let’s say, best case scenario, 1) you have sickle-cell anemia, 2) you don’t get fatally sick from anything else (hopefully), 3) and you are still immune to malaria. What do you do? You live, and that’s it. Where is the evidence (no new information is created) to say that you progress or evolve because of your state of deficiency and are better off than the “species” that came before you? So you increase your chances of survival by getting a disease that is damaging and can kill you (wow that’s logic?) But wait, good thing your immune to malaria!

If you are born without arms, (a loss of information in your DNA caused you not to be born with any arms.) Or they happen to get cut off for some reason. Say the person gets arrested for something, they cannot be handcuffed. Hey, that’s a positive thing. You would be immune to handcuffs. It may be beneficial for the moment, but is the person really better off, back in society, in day-to-day life. And it didn’t create any new information.

Last time I checked, arms are quite helpful in the real world.

If you are born without legs (again, loss of information) or they get cut off for some reason. You would be immune to athlete’s foot. Hey that’s a positive thing. But am I really better off? And it didn’t create any new information.

Last time I checked your feet come in pretty handy.

Translate the above examples to the sickle-cell case.

How can you get ahead, if you keep losing information? And you’re still not generating any new information. Yes boys and girls that’s how we came to be……we lost everything so that’s how we got everything. What?