Saturday, September 5, 2026
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Joe Rogan Is Blown Away by What Homo Erectus Could Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uQRGo8sMc
Homo Erectus emerged around 1.9 to 2 million years ago in Africa. They went extinct roughly 110,000 years ago. They also evolved into other human species.
I suspect that they didn't seem much different to our ancestors.
There is some evidence of different human species interbreeding. This includes humans and Neanderthals, but also Homo Erectus with Denisovans.
Modern Europeans have about 1% to 2% Neanderthal DNA in their individual genomes, with essentially 100% of people with European ancestry carrying these traces.
Homo Erectus emerged around 1.9 to 2 million years ago in Africa. They went extinct roughly 110,000 years ago. They also evolved into other human species.
I suspect that they didn't seem much different to our ancestors.
There is some evidence of different human species interbreeding. This includes humans and Neanderthals, but also Homo Erectus with Denisovans.
Modern Europeans have about 1% to 2% Neanderthal DNA in their individual genomes, with essentially 100% of people with European ancestry carrying these traces.
Monday, August 31, 2026
Sunday, August 30, 2026
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
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