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A recent discovery highlights the importance of viewing living things as purposeful and goal-oriented systems. Here, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center discover that breast cancer cells are in sophisticated communication with a whole array of physiological processes within the body from wound repair to immune response to metabolic homeostasis and the blood clotting cascade – all from the very earliest stages. We can detect these communications in the plasma proteome as nascent cancer cells seek strategies and suitable recruits to assist metastasis.
It’s sort of like studying terrorists by listening to their communications chatter as they try to recruit and plan their attack, as opposed to studying them by watching them blow up a disco.
UD News staff are all veterans of mid-life cancer funerals. Go ahead, Telic: Blow the cancer to hell.
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Ah, one of the top flight Christians who followed the Emperor to Constantinople, not a descendent of the dregs left behind in Rome. Congratulations.
I think a very old universe is pretty well established. The earth-moon system is ~ four billion years old and changing that age would mean changing several radioactive half-lives, which is very unlikely.
There might be some room to play with the 14 billion year age of the universe. If some supernovas turned out to have a different brightness than we think they have it could be older or younger. And the newly discovered expansion of the universe might change things too. But I think the 4 billion year age of the earth is very secure and the universe is certainly older than that.
When reading the various combinatorial criticisms coming from ID and creationist sources, bear in mind that those figures are only as good as the author’s understanding of what they’re trying to “mathify” and none of the ID/Creationist stars that I’ve read seem to be very good at story problems. e.g. Dembski and his search spaces that evolution doesn’t actually search. For that matter, he doesn’t seem to realize that every living thing is already in one of the spaces life is supposedly searching for.
It looks to me like the greatest delay in getting really complex life on earth was waiting for the oxygen levels to build up to where they were possible.
Sorry, hit the “reply” button again instead of “Post Comment”. This should have gone to the “Astronomy, Hawking, and the Importance of Being Info” thread.
Since the scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center were probably NOT thinking of cancer as purposeful or goal oriented, the good old scientific method probably did the job again.
dmullenix:
I wonder how much the scientific method needs Darwin to do successful research in medical science.
arkady967 as to:
This is a good article for answering that:
further notes:
More than ID, apparently.
Is there an alternative link for that article on teleology? It seems the link is broken.
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