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| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Mar. 07 2008,19:25) | I could probably delete a big chunk of the files on my hard drive with no ill effects. I would not even notice they were gone until I needed them - which could be months or years later.
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If you never needed them or used them for anything, they are not functional.
| Quote | | The again, I might never notice if they were files used for the one-time setup of my computer. Yet they are all functional files. |
Are you claiming that these repetitive sequences were deleted after the setup (development) of the mouse?
Do you realize how brain-dead these ID arguments from analogies are, particularly since you aren't even constructing a true analogy?
| Quote | | Maybe the chunk deleted from the mouse genome was used during ontogeny and then not used again. Deleting it would produce no ill effects then. |
Dan, that has to be one of the most ignorant things you have ever written here, which is saying a lot.
What do we real scientists do when we delete a chunk of the mouse genome?
Are you so dense that you think that a chunk of the genome could be deleted from an adult mouse? How would we get into every cell to do it?
Oh, and when you see that your entire premise was false, will that affect your claimed confidence in your conclusion?
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