Friday, August 28, 2026
The Math Problem That Breaks Evolutions' Timeline
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From: John Coffey <john2001plus@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: The Math Problem That Breaks Evolution’s Timeline
To: Grant
From: John Coffey <john2001plus@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: The Math Problem That Breaks Evolution’s Timeline
To: Grant
Grant,
I think that people misunderstand both entropy, which applies to a closed system and not to the Earth as a whole, and evolution.
According to Google, every human child typically receives about 50 to 90 new mutations that were not present in either parent's DNA. I view every biological organism as a new genetic experiment. The changes in one generation might not be significant, but these changes accumulate over time and combine with changes from other individuals.
It is unlikely for organisms to remain exactly the same over long periods of time. There are a few exceptions where organisms have been so successful that they have remained essentially the same for tens of millions of years. However, I think it is unlikely that humans will be the same tens of thousands of years from now, given that humans have changed somewhat over the last few tens of thousands of years.
I prefer a more traditional view of God, in which He is the creator of the laws of physics and not constrained by them.
The simpler explanation for the origin of species is not that they came from other worlds or that some form of magic created them. The simpler explanation is that they arose naturally through the laws of nature as evidenced by the clear observations we have made.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 2:27 AM Grant wrote:
John,When I was young I would have agreed with you completely. In Jr High, my math teacher, Dr Edwin Hershey, believed Darwinism but also believed in scripture and God as the creator. Personally I had spiritual experiences testifying of a loving Father, but I accepted science without significant questioning. More recently, a geological engineer friend lent me a book by the head of the geology department at the U of U who likewise believed in God but accepted Darwinism as one of His tools and didn't see a conflict. They held that God directs nature but didn't create the laws, a little like my wife creating and maintaining our garden but not making the plants from nothing. I.E. from youth I was taught that God did not create the laws of nature but rather mastered them including laws we do not yet know or comprehend. He also has somehow mastered time or else how could the prophets correctly foretell the future, such as Isaiah, Daniel, David and Book of Mormon prophets detailing events of Christ's birth, ministry, crucifiction and resurrection, plus foretelling events of our day, including the return of the Jews to Jerusalem, the Civil War starting in South Carolina (JS) and world wars and earthquakes coupled with signs in the heavens such as our numerous solar and lunar eclipses including the moon turning to blood which many will shortly witness. Natural disasters aren't new, but the apparent increased frequency and severity are consistent with prophecy. As I studied more science (e.g. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) and engineering this whole creation process would require even more time than timelines suggest, which is what this author is saying about whales and implying in more general terms.In the scriptural and scientific observation, simpler organisms came before more complex ones, and plants had to prepare the way for the animal kingdom. My personal conclusion (not doctrine) is that perhaps evolution, according to updated Darwinism, could have resulted in all the life forms we have but they were generally developed elsewhere over much more time on other worlds. God then followed the creative sequence from Genesis which per my interpretation matches the order from textbooks where plants largely preceded animals (in order to have oxygen for the animal kingdom) and protected sea life came before birds (dinosaurs) and mammals and finally man. Under this scenario, God placed on earth a variety of life in the sea and then placed seeds upon the earth for grasses, trees etc. and then later placed various species of mammals, culminating in anthropoids and hominids. There were destructive periods as well and he finally placed Adam and Eve in a garden in Eden. Were they the culmination of evolution or created from scratch? I don't think it matters, but they were grand beings who were expelled from Eden for sin and entered the already "lone and dreary world" where creatures had been dying for millions of years as evidenced by fossils, coal and limestone formed in the depths of the oceans. Personal belief: We are principally descendents from Adam and Eve, corresponding to written histories, and most of the hominids died out with the mammoths, saber tooth tigers and giant land sloths at the last ice age and from subsequent wars; however, Adam's posterity gave us written records and greater civilization, but there were a few men already in the world, so Cane, for instance, had no problem finding a wife after he killed Abel and was forced to leave.
Summary: My scientific/mathematical concern is that more time is required to create all the coordinated extremely complex diversity than is allocated by geologists and anthropologists. My engineering training says "don't reinvent the wheel", meaning if there is a god or gods (including alien theories), planting seeds and placing animals on earth is much easier and less time consuming than waiting for them to evolve and stay on the right productive path, which is statistically virtually impossible per the principle of entropy, without a divine overseer.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
The Math Problem That Breaks Evolution’s Timeline
@john2001plus
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What a waste of time.
The main problem with these arguments is that they don't take into account the massive parallelism taking place across the entire species, with genes coming from multiple ancestors and genetic errors accumulating over many generations. The genetic pool is effectively a soup of randomness. Nature weeds out the worst combinations, with up to half of all pregnancies terminating spontaneously before the mother even knows that she is pregnant.
The other problem is that we know evolution happened from the evidence in the fossil record and from genetics. Two facts are strongly supported by evidence:
1. The Earth is very old.
2. Simpler organisms came before more complex ones.
Where did the more complex organisms come from? You could say that they were created by God, but we don't have good evidence for that. The scientific explanation is that complex organisms arose from simpler ones.
Monday, August 24, 2026
Is this trans thought experiment just wrong?
16 hours ago (edited)
A person's feelings about their body do not make a man a woman or a woman a man, nor is it possible to make the switch. A trans person will never be able to produce children. The changes are cosmetic only and don't change the fundamental reality of a person's biology. It seems to me that people are sold a lie about gender affirming care.
From what I read, some people do benefit psychologically from surgery. However, this is a serious operation that does irreversible damage to the body, with potential complications. Maybe psychological care would be more appropriate?
Some of us didn't exactly win the genetics lottery. We have to deal with the reality of our bodies instead of some fantasy. Surgery only becomes needed when it is medically necessary.
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Vacuum Tubes
I saw one of these tube testers in the 1970s, maybe at a TV repair shop. I think that my dad simply bought a replacement vacuum tube for one that had gone bad in a TV. He was good at fixing things.
Vacuum tubes work like transistors in that they allow a small current to control a much larger one. This is necessary for the amplification of radio signals that are very weak. In the case of the vacuum tube, electrons on a grid block the flow of the larger current.
Given how primitive this seems, I am impressed that something as complex as a cathode ray television could be made with these tubes. The response time to controlling the current flow would have to be in nanoseconds to deal with VHF signals. Furthermore, they have to control the path of the electron beam on the cathode ray tube.
Monday, August 17, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Friday, August 7, 2026
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl3X88KEgg
This echoes pooints I have seen in other videos. Long distance space travel seems too dangerous. Even going to Mars is very risky.
I have long speculated that in some distant future we might send android robots, with human personalties, to the stars. By coincindence, I'm listening to the "Bobiverse" audio book series about that same topic.
Re: Christian DESTROYS Evolutionist Teacher
To: J
Of course, this video comes across as staged rather than spontaneous.
My degree is in biology, and my education convinced me that evolution is the best explanation for the diversity of life.
I'm not going to claim to know everything, but I do try to stay well informed about the subjects I have opinions on.
I feel that the video is full of inaccuracies, and I don't think a real biologist would respond the way the person in the video does.
The claim that there are no transitional species is simply false. The fossil record is incomplete and never will be complete, but many of the species we have discovered can reasonably be viewed as transitional between earlier and later forms. For example, there is a well-documented transition between land mammals and whales and dolphins.
However, every time paleontologists discover a new fossil that fills a gap—for example, if they connect species A and C by finding an intermediate species B—critics simply argue that we are now missing the transitions between A and B, and between B and C. The expectation of an infinitely detailed fossil record is unrealistic. Fossilization is a rare event, and evolution often proceeds relatively rapidly in response to changing environmental pressures, leaving comparatively few fossils from those transitional populations.
There are a couple of facts that are strongly supported by the evidence:
1. The Earth is very old.
2. Simpler organisms appeared before more complex ones.
How did the more complex organisms arise? One could argue that God created them directly, but we do not have physical evidence for that. The simpler scientific explanation is that complex organisms evolved from simpler ones. Many creationists try to challenge the mechanisms by asking questions such as, "How could this possibly work?" But even if we did not fully understand every mechanism, that would not change the historical evidence that evolution occurred. The evidence tells us that it happened.
That said, we do have a good understanding of the mechanisms involved. DNA replication is not a perfect process, and extremely small mutations occur in every generation. If too many harmful mutations accumulate, the organsim is often not viable. In fact, roughly half of all pregnancies end in spontaneous miscarriage before the mother even realizes she is pregnant, often because of chromosomal or other genetic abnormalities.
Some mutations, however, are neutral or beneficial. Those mutations increase genetic diversity, and that diversity gives populations a better chance of surviving changing environmental pressures. Over many generations, natural selection acting on that genetic variation can produce the large-scale evolutionary changes observed in the fossil record and in living organisms.
Some limited evolution has been observed in organisms alive today.
P.S. I meant to add that birds are part of Theropods that make up dinosaurs. Many theropod dinosaurs shared characteristics in common with birds, such as feathers.
Birds have been reclassified as avian dinosaurs, with only the non-avian dinosaurs considered extinct. I'm not totally comfortable with this change in classification. It seems to me that birds are different enough from what we think of as dinosaurs to be considered separate from them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda
"Birds are the only extant members of Dinosauria, and are a type of paravian theropods."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
Saturday, August 1, 2026
The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic
Several lines of evidence support the hypothesis that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from activities associated with the live wildlife trade there. Spatial analyses within the market show that SARS-CoV-2–positive environmental samples, including cages, carts, and freezers, were associated with activities concentrated in the southwest corner of the market. This is the same section where vendors were selling live mammals, including raccoon dogs, hog badgers, and red foxes, immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic. Multiple positive samples were taken from one stall known to have sold live mammals, and the water drain proximal to this stall, as well as other sewerages and a nearby wildlife stall on the southwest side of the market, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (24).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
Friday, July 31, 2026
Why Fauci's Pardon Won't Protect Him From This
Rand Paul is using Fauci as a punching bag, trying to implicate Fauci for the pandemic, implying that it was created in a lab, to which Fauci provided a modest amount of funding to catalog bat viruses. However, none of this is supported by evidence, so this is just a witch hunt.
Many conservative commentators that I like regularly make statements about the pandemic that aren't supported by research. The truth is that masks and the vaccines slowed the spread of the disease. I have read the studies. The truth is that the vaccines reduced overall mortality at all ages.
Fauci deserves at least some credit for dealing with a major crisis under difficult circumstances. Instead, people want to condemn him over actions they find questionable. It is easy to second-guess people when you are not the one facing tremendous responsibility.
Many conservative commentators that I like regularly make statements about the pandemic that aren't supported by research. The truth is that masks and the vaccines slowed the spread of the disease. I have read the studies. The truth is that the vaccines reduced overall mortality at all ages.
Fauci deserves at least some credit for dealing with a major crisis under difficult circumstances. Instead, people want to condemn him over actions they find questionable. It is easy to second-guess people when you are not the one facing tremendous responsibility.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Satellite growth
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From: Larry
The number of active satellites in orbit has grown exponentially from about 1,400 in 2015 to about 15,000 currently. As many as 100,000 are expected to be in orbit within the decade
Where Did Ancient Humans Go to the Bathroom? The Surprising Truth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-C-jNrmNYg
We know that roughly 60 thousand years ago, humans built the first permanent structures.*
However, farming wouldn't come along until the neolithic period, about 11 to 12 thousand years ago.
Either way, humans would have some sort of civilization to manage their affairs, even if it was primitive.
* I had previously read that a drought in Africa had nearly wiped out the human race, forcing a small population to live along the southern coast of Africa. They came out of this drought roughly 50,000 years ago, beginning the Upper Paleolithic period.
However, I keep reading different numbers as to when this occurred. Some sites say 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. However, Google AI is telling me that it started 190,000 years ago.
ChatGPT tells me the following...
The confusion comes from the fact that several different events are being conflated. They are not all referring to the same thing.
Here's a rough timeline based on the current evidence:
- ~300,000 years ago: Homo sapiens first appears in Africa.
- ~195,000–130,000 years ago: There is evidence that human populations went through one or more severe bottlenecks, although their causes and severity are still debated. Some researchers link these to long periods of climatic stress, while others argue they resulted from a combination of factors. This is likely what Google AI was referring to.
- ~74,000 years ago: The eruption of the volcano at Lake Toba occurred. It was once thought to have nearly wiped out humanity, but that hypothesis is no longer widely accepted.
- ~70,000–60,000 years ago: Southern Africa experienced periods of severe drought associated with changing climate. Archaeological sites such as Pinnacle Point and Blombos Cave show that coastal populations survived by exploiting seafood, shellfish, and other marine resources. These populations also developed sophisticated stone tools and symbolic behavior.
- ~70,000–50,000 years ago: Modern humans began expanding out of Africa, eventually reaching Asia, Europe, and Australia.
- ~50,000 years ago: The Upper Paleolithic began in Europe. This date marks the appearance of advanced stone-tool industries there, not the end of an African drought. Humans had already been behaving in "Upper Paleolithic" ways in parts of Africa for tens of thousands of years.
The statement that "only about 7,000 humans survived" also needs some qualification. Older studies often estimated an effective breeding population of only a few thousand individuals. More recent genetic studies usually estimate an effective population size of roughly 1,000–10,000 breeding individuals, which does not mean there were only that many people alive. The actual census population may have been several times larger.
So the dates you've seen correspond to different ideas:
- 190,000 years ago: An early proposed population bottleneck.
- 70,000–60,000 years ago: A later period of climatic stress in southern Africa and the expansion of coastal populations.
- 50,000 years ago: The beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe.
The version you previously read—that a drought reduced humans to a relatively small coastal population in southern Africa that later expanded—is still a plausible summary of one influential hypothesis. However, archaeologists today tend to view the story as more complex, with multiple climate fluctuations and population bottlenecks rather than a single catastrophic event that almost exterminated humanity.
What’s the only country in all four hemispheres??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE_oLmpXpO8
@john2001plus 1 minute ago
@john2001plus 1 minute ago
Why are there 4 hemi-spheres?
I was guessing the United States, because we have 14 official territories in the world.
What about the British Empire? Does it still exist?
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Re: Cyclospora
On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM Grant wrote:
Here in Utah, Taco Bell is highly suspect because they get their lettuce from Mexico.
For a long time I liked to eat salads. But lettuce doesn't keep very long and now I am highly suspicious of things like that.
I eat Roma tomatoes for the higher lycopene content.
I have concluded that a moderate amount of chips with salsa is healthy, and a good substitute for salads. The high fiber is filling and helps with appetite.
Tortilla chips are high in resistant starch, which is linked to some health benefits.
Google AI says...
Yes, lycopene is highly beneficial. It is a potent antioxidant found in red foods like tomatoes, watermelon, and pink grapefruit. It protects your cells from oxidative stress and is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, and strokes. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
For maximum benefit, consider these key details:
- Better with fat: Lycopene is fat-soluble. Eating lycopene-rich foods with healthy fats (like cooking tomatoes in olive oil or eating them with avocado) boosts your body's absorption by up to 4.4 times. [1, 2, 3]
- Better when cooked: Heating and processing tomatoes (e.g., in tomato paste, sauce, or salsa) actually makes lycopene more bioavailable than eating them raw. [1]
Yes, salsa contains lycopene. Because tomatoes are the primary ingredient in traditional red salsa, the condiment is packed with this powerful antioxidant. Lycopene is linked to reduced inflammation, better heart health, and a lower risk of certain cancers. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The bioavailability of lycopene actually improves when tomatoes are cooked, processed, or mixed with a little fat (like avocado), making this flavorful condiment an excellent way to boost your daily nutrient intake. [1, 2, 3]
Yes, resistant starch is highly beneficial. It bypasses small intestine digestion, reaching the colon intact to feed beneficial gut bacteria. This produces short-chain fatty acids (like butyrate) that improve gut health, stabilize blood sugar, increase satiety, and support heart health. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Key benefits of resistant starch include:
- Blood Sugar Control: Because it resists digestion, it does not cause blood sugar spikes. Some research indicates it can also increase insulin sensitivity. [1, 2]
- Gut Health & Digestion: It acts as a prebiotic, nourishing your microbiome and protecting the lining of the colon, which may lower the risk of colorectal cancer. [1, 2]
- Weight Management: By fueling the production of satiety hormones like GLP-1, it helps you feel full longer. [1]
You can naturally incorporate resistant starch into your diet by eating legumes, seeds, unripe (green) bananas, and whole grains. Additionally, cooking and subsequently cooling starchy carbohydrates (like rice, pasta, and potatoes) turns them into resistant starches. [1, 2]
Yes, corn tortillas contain resistant starch. The traditional process of making them—called nixtamalization, where corn is soaked in an alkaline lime solution—alters the starch and naturally increases resistant starch. [1, 2, 3]
You can boost the resistant starch content even further by cooking and cooling them (e.g., storing them in the fridge), which causes the starches to crystallize and become more resistant to digestion. For example, fresh corn tortillas might contain roughly 2.6 g of resistant starch, but this can increase to over 3.5 g after being chilled in the refrigerator. [1, 2, 3]
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