tinieblas, on 02 November 2009 - 01:11 AM, said:
you focus on what you want to focus on....we don't know what the DNA which might cause this is or where it is located so why would genetic testing actually reveal anything? You fail to aprehend, willingly I feel, the actual gist of what I was saying....I'm trying to take the 'magical' side away from this and actually allow for possible scientific explainations but it seems even scientific people tend to not bother listening to anything but accepted theory if it sounds different to what is commonly accepted as real....
Are you serious? Read up on some developmental biology. Genetics make your cells what they, this is just commonly accepted, it is universally accepted due to the overwhelming mass of evidence for it. You genes control your biological traits.
Comprehend btw, not apprehend. And it is nothing to do with accepted theory (though you may want to find out what a theory in science is, it is very different from the colloquial use) it is too do with what you can back up, anyone can makes claims, claims have no value.
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can you not even begin to possibly accept that there are things yet which science does not know which might make sense of these things which are now considered magical or impossible.....not so long ago, the creation and birth of a human being was magical, the cycles of the sun and moon were magical, so many things which were considered magical and are now not. What was formally considered stupid and unbelievable are now common knowledge. Expand your mind and think outside of the box Matt, you don't know everything and nor does science.
Actually if that were true I'd never become a scientist. I will, however, not accept blind conjecture as a reason to dismiss what we do know especially when it contradicts available evidence.
Blind conjecture is not thinking outside the box and it is not how the world progresses because it has no constraints and fails to be applicable. You want progress you experiment, not random conjecturing.
This post has been edited by Mattshark: 02 November 2009 - 01:41 AM