Steviepinhead
Posts: 532 Joined: Jan. 2006
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Hi, ftk!
I was just wondering why you think it is that scientists and medical researchers and cancer investigators are coming around to the view that canines may be better research animals for modeling human cancers than mice are?
Evolutionary biologists are able to explain this puzzling fact, in part, based upon the more recent common ancestor shared by canines and humans, and the more distant one shared by mice.
I'm wondering what your explanation might be. "Common design"? If so, what rationale might the designer have had for designing dogs such that they are more susceptible to human-like cancers than mice?
Did the designer just like mice better?
Wouldn't it have been more convenient if mice had been designed so as to be the more useful cancer model? After all, in other respects, their swifter generations, smaller size, greater fecundity, etc., make them much more tractable--and somewhat less soulful-eyed--research subjects.
Please feel free to share any religious or philosophical implications you feel may bear on the mice-dog-human cancer triangle.
But I'd sure appreciate it if you started with the scientific evidence, given how much you like to read original research papers.
Or, hey, if you don't like that one: how old is the earth? How do you know? If radiometric dating isn't reliable, why hasn't the earth cooled internally long ago? Why hasn't the sun gone out?
If radiometric dating isn't reliable, how can such fundamental constants as the weak force inform us about "fine tuning"? I mean, if those extremely well-measured constants are reliable as indicators of "fine tuning" and cosmic design, why aren't they reliable when they cause atoms to decay in a finely-designed and scientifically-predicatable manner?
Just, y'know, wondering.
If none of those questions set your tall, blonde self to pitter-patting, just let me know what the problem is, and I'll try to come up with some issues that your tall, blonde, scientifically-astute self will warm to...!
All the best, Stevie P.
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