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"Reinventing the Spirit, Resurrecting the Soul"

Discussion in 'Religion & Spirituality Forum' started by sdplusbeauty, Oct 21, 2009.

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    I assume you are referring to DNA methylation? Or can you link some study that shows where the DNA sequence is actually changed by some process associated with mood or environment, as you claim?
     
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    The sea of genetic material in your body is never exactly similar. There are lots of influences that can alter any single piece of DNA, from radiation to viruses. I can't see how DNA could change all at once, in concert with the other pieces, unless there was some form of chemical signal, and I don't think there is any evidence for that.
     
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    The sequence doesn't change....as I said before.
     
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    There is a constant battle between forces trying to change the sequence and our own efforts to protect it. You digestive system is awash in "foreign" bacterial sequences not to mention symbiotic viruses. Don't forget, viruses are simply genetic material that have built a vessel for travel around themselves.

    Cancer, with growing evidence of some forms being from a viral source, is itself the cell division and propagation of a mutated strain of our own genetic material. The resulting non-functioning cells are called tumors. Maybe you have heard of them?
     
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    Again....your genetic sequence doesn't change....it can be damaged in individual cells, but the genetic sequence of your DNA does not change.
     
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    When you say "your genetic sequence", you are referring to the pattern used at conception to build the fetus?
     
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    The nucleotide sequences that make up the DNA.
     
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    "The DNA" implies that the wide sea of DNA in your body is a single entity when in fact it is billions and billions of pieces of individual material, some incomplete, some mutated and non-functional, some altered by point contact with the environment or microbial influence.
     
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    The sequence of your DNA, regardless of its state of health, is such that, even if the chain were broken, could find it's corresponding pieces and rebuild it self to resemble the originally sequenced strand. The nucleotide sequence remains the same, regardless of how you break it up.
     

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