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JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,10:47   

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Quote (Merc @ June 27 2013,06:40)
Fun!

Even when they "do science" they scramble around for a spin.

Any reasonable person would just say, "well, yeah, I guess it is pretty easy to do, sorry for the confusion".

more please

The money shot:
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It was surprisingly easy to add a new function based on our knowledge of evolutionary relationships between entire protein families.

It's hard to do lab work with a bible in one hand.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,10:49   

You guys made me look, and then I had to make a comment... :D

https://www.facebook.com/Biologi....7268096

Edited by Dr.GH on June 27 2013,08:53

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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,12:25   

Quote (Dr.GH @ June 27 2013,10:49)
You guys made me look, and then I had to make a comment... :D

https://www.facebook.com/Biologi....7268096

Me too.  :p

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OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,12:35   

Quote (Jim_Wynne @ June 27 2013,12:25)
Quote (Dr.GH @ June 27 2013,10:49)
You guys made me look, and then I had to make a comment... :D

https://www.facebook.com/Biologi....7268096

Me too. :p

Me 3.

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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,18:30   

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Quote (Jim_Wynne @ June 27 2013,12:25)
 
Quote (Dr.GH @ June 27 2013,10:49)
You guys made me look, and then I had to make a comment... :D

https://www.facebook.com/Biologi....7268096

Me too. :p

Me 3.

I quoted JohnW.


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Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,19:15   

I'd make a suitably inappropriate comment on their Facebook site but, of course, I'm blocked.

Yes, Gauger's silver banhammer came down on my head.

  
Merc



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(Permalink) Posted: June 27 2013,20:16   

The sad thing is that I've done far more to test her hypothesis than she has--inadvertently, with a completely different goal.

Would someone like to ask her why they didn't cite our papers, given their relevance?

  
Merc



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(Permalink) Posted: June 28 2013,01:56   

Amazing...

John Mercer Pardon me? This was about engineering. You wrote, "Ask protein engineers how easy it is to redesign a protein to a genuinely new function." It starts with the 1999 JBC paper listed at the link Gary provided.

Biologic Institute In that paper you generate a null mutation, meaning a "loss of function" mutation. Not a new function. "As cellcell junctions are important in morphogenesis, we generated a null mutation in the murine Af6 locus to test the hypothesis that lack of AF-6 function would cause epithelial abnormalities....


John Mercer You are mistaken. I pointed you to the 1999 **JBC** paper. You described our Current Biology paper. The JBC paper is Engineering of the myosin-I? nucleotide-binding pocket to create selective sensitivity to N 6-modified ADP analogs, JBC 274:31373.

  
Occam's Aftershave



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(Permalink) Posted: June 28 2013,08:33   

Quote (Merc @ June 28 2013,01:56)
Amazing...

John Mercer Pardon me? This was about engineering. You wrote, "Ask protein engineers how easy it is to redesign a protein to a genuinely new function." It starts with the 1999 JBC paper listed at the link Gary provided.

Biologic Institute In that paper you generate a null mutation, meaning a "loss of function" mutation. Not a new function. "As cellcell junctions are important in morphogenesis, we generated a null mutation in the murine Af6 locus to test the hypothesis that lack of AF-6 function would cause epithelial abnormalities....


John Mercer You are mistaken. I pointed you to the 1999 **JBC** paper. You described our Current Biology paper. The JBC paper is Engineering of the myosin-I? nucleotide-binding pocket to create selective sensitivity to N 6-modified ADP analogs, JBC 274:31373.

What do you expect? She's got her big fat mammary caught in the ringer, now has to resort to the usual Creationist tactic - lying - to save face.

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Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: June 28 2013,09:03   

How could it be a new function if they didn't grow wings and they're still monkeys?

Huh?

They're still fecking monkeys!

  
OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: June 28 2013,09:38   

Quote (Doc Bill @ June 27 2013,19:15)
I'd make a suitably inappropriate comment on their Facebook site but, of course, I'm blocked.

Yes, Gauger's silver banhammer came down on my head.

Shall I mention that you're blocked?  I suspect all of us will be soon enough.

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: June 28 2013,21:03   

One observation regarding these online discussions- if there are "like" buttons we should use them. This might seem trivial, but market reserachers have found that they are significant in the opinions of neutral readers.

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Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: June 28 2013,22:09   

Remember when Bio-Logic set all these Facebook rules?

No postings more than 100 words and no off-topic or uncivil or postings that contained letters between a-z.

I didn't say that Gauger "was" related to the troll king in the Hobbit, I said she "might have been."  Sheesh, picky picky!

  
Merc



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(Permalink) Posted: July 01 2013,01:10   

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What do you expect? She's got her big fat mammary caught in the ringer, now has to resort to the usual Creationist tactic - lying - to save face.

It's a very stupid kind of lying, though. I could see her not knowing about the relevance of our work, as it was done to test mechanistic hypotheses, but for her to claim to be a "protein engineer" but not know about Shokat's work is just laughable.

And there's her inability to read Google Scholar lists of papers, abstracts, and figures, too...

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 01 2013,03:18   

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I didn't say that Gauger "was" related to the troll king in the Hobbit, I said she "might have been."  Sheesh, picky picky!

Hey, I liked the troll king.

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: July 01 2013,10:54   

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Quote (Occam's Aftershave @ June 28 2013,08:33)
What do you expect? She's got her big fat mammary caught in the ringer, now has to resort to the usual Creationist tactic - lying - to save face.

It's a very stupid kind of lying, though. I could see her not knowing about the relevance of our work, as it was done to test mechanistic hypotheses, but for her to claim to be a "protein engineer" but not know about Shokat's work is just laughable.

And there's her inability to read Google Scholar lists of papers, abstracts, and figures, too...

It is remarkable how little creationists care about lying, or being caught lying.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 01 2013,14:56   

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I didn't say that Gauger "was" related to the troll king in the Hobbit, I said she "might have been." Sheesh, picky picky!

Hey, I liked the troll king.

Are you allowed to unlike the troll king without being eaten?

  
Doc Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: July 01 2013,15:14   

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I didn't say that Gauger "was" related to the troll king in the Hobbit, I said she "might have been." Sheesh, picky picky!

Hey, I liked the troll king.

Rumor has it his daughter is available and sleepless in Seattle.

  
Glen Davidson



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(Permalink) Posted: July 02 2013,10:30   

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Quote (Merc @ June 30 2013,23:10)
Quote (Occam's Aftershave @ June 28 2013,08:33)
What do you expect? She's got her big fat mammary caught in the ringer, now has to resort to the usual Creationist tactic - lying - to save face.

It's a very stupid kind of lying, though. I could see her not knowing about the relevance of our work, as it was done to test mechanistic hypotheses, but for her to claim to be a "protein engineer" but not know about Shokat's work is just laughable.

And there's her inability to read Google Scholar lists of papers, abstracts, and figures, too...

It is remarkable how little creationists care about lying, or being caught lying.

It's that transcendent morality.

Wonderful stuff.


Glen Davidson

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 03 2013,18:54   

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It's that transcendent morality.

Wonderful stuff.

And, that's stuff that can't be derived from an algebraic equation!

  
The whole truth



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 03 2016,10:28   

I wonder if the discotoot will close down the "Biologic Institute" now that Douglas Axe says:

"For me, the book, career-wise, marks a transition from doing a careful extended critique of Darwinism — I reached the point several years ago where I thought, I can’t think of anything else we can do; we’ve done all these careful experiments, we’ve published the results. We get people who bash them, but it’s only in blog articles. Nobody has gone in a lab and done work at the level we’ve done it to critique the work we’ve done. So, I feel like we’re beating a dead horse at some point, and I really want to shift gears."

http://www.wataugademocrat.com/mountai....fd.html

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NoName



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 03 2016,10:34   

What, exactly, would shutting down the lab required?
Deleting the stock art picture file and the photoshopped file using it?

  
Glen Davidson



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 03 2016,12:22   

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I wonder if the discotoot will close down the "Biologic Institute" now that Douglas Axe says:

"For me, the book, career-wise, marks a transition from doing a careful extended critique of Darwinism — I reached the point several years ago where I thought, I can’t think of anything else we can do; we’ve done all these careful experiments, we’ve published the results. We get people who bash them, but it’s only in blog articles. Nobody has gone in a lab and done work at the level we’ve done it to critique the work we’ve done. So, I feel like we’re beating a dead horse at some point, and I really want to shift gears."

http://www.wataugademocrat.com/mountai....fd.html

Oh come on Doug, you could do something even less connected with actual evolution and pretend that it means something.

Not much less connected to real evolutionary theory, but still somewhat less connected with the actual science.

Glen Davidson

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 03 2016,12:35   

Quote (The whole truth @ Sep. 03 2016,11:28)
I wonder if the discotoot will close down the "Biologic Institute" now that Douglas Axe says:

"For me, the book, career-wise, marks a transition from doing a careful extended critique of Darwinism — I reached the point several years ago where I thought, I can’t think of anything else we can do; we’ve done all these careful experiments, we’ve published the results. We get people who bash them, but it’s only in blog articles. Nobody has gone in a lab and done work at the level we’ve done it to critique the work we’ve done. So, I feel like we’re beating a dead horse at some point, and I really want to shift gears."

http://www.wataugademocrat.com/mountai....fd.html

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DA: What bothers me about the way the debate has played out is that both sides — the sides that I’m referring to here are the intelligent design proponents and the defenders of the orthodox Darwinian view — have tended to perpetuate the idea that this is basically a technical argument for scientists to hash out, and that the general public is to consume only the simplified explanations of what’s happening in that technical argument. That has bothered me for two reasons. One, because the establishment side, the orthodox Darwinian position, will always win if that’s how we frame the debate, because they outnumber us. There are far more people with Ph.D.s at top research facilities who disagree with me than the people who agree with me.
The other reason it bothers me is that I don’t fundamentally think that this is, at rock bottom, a technical issue. Common sense and very universal, simple reasoning actually can show you that Darwin’s story cannot be the true story.
So, I use the term common science to connect to common sense, but also to show that it’s not just that we have these intuitions, we actually have experienced observation models that we build as we go through life, beginning with early childhood, that really are scientific in nature. We don’t just pull these things out of thin air, we base them on our own observations and collective experience. They are really scientific in nature. That’s what I was aiming for with the term “common science.”


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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 03 2016,12:37   

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TM: It’s fairly late in the book before you actually begin writing about God, by name. Why is that?


Cuz I'm worn out from all this dishonesty and just don't care anymore?

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 04 2016,02:54   

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You guys made me look, and then I had to make a comment... :D

https://www.facebook.com/Biologi....7268096

Me too. �:p

Me 3.

I couldn't resist making my own comment (under my real name) although I think I am the least academic person in the game. 7 years in school, that's all! It may not be appropriate to praise yourself but just this once, I am proud of my 86 years old brain!

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 04 2016,10:31   

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Quote (Jim_Wynne @ June 27 2013,12:25)
   
Quote (Dr.GH @ June 27 2013,10:49)
You guys made me look, and then I had to make a comment... :D

https://www.facebook.com/Biologi....7268096

Me too. �:p

Me 3.

I couldn't resist making my own comment (under my real name) although I think I am the least academic person in the game. 7 years in school, that's all! It may not be appropriate to praise yourself but just this once, I am proud of my 86 years old brain!

Doesn't look like ur comment has seen the light of day yet.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 25 2021,05:43   

Just for the record:
According to The Sensuous Curmudgeon and Panda's Thumb the Biologic Institute is closing. After being dead for ages, though.

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Alan Fox



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(Permalink) Posted: May 25 2021,13:40   

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Just for the record:
According to The Sensuous Curmudgeon and Panda's Thumb the Biologic Institute is closing. After being dead for ages, though.

Wasn't the Biologic Institute registered at Doug Axe's home address?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: May 25 2021,13:41   

Oops please delete double post.

  
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