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The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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Re: The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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I’m surprised this does not mention humans can grow back the tips of their fingers (past the white part of cuticle) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854... Supposed to be only kids but I’ve chopped off a few mm by accident it came back as an adult or I can’t tell the difference.

Does your fingerprint look normal? When I was a kid I was goofing around with a pair of scissors and lopped off a good chunk of the pad of one finger. Thirty years later my fingerprint looks like a bunch of little dots at that location. The ridges never grew back properly.

Same. Chopped off the tip of my thumb with an axe, it’s healed but very scarred and fingerprint is not normal.

Re: The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus, if he existed, didn't actually heal anyone or perform any miracles. That's mythology, not reality.

How do you know?

Because I'm a grownup who knows the difference between reality and make-believe.

Re: The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I'm a grownup who knows the difference between reality and make-believe.

I take from this that you don't, otherwise you would explain it

You're the one who believes magic is real, it's up to you to explain it. Extraordinary claims and such.

Re: The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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Lol, I once sharpened my knives and went to cook. During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife is", next thing you know, i cut about 1/4" of my finger tip off, right through the finger nail with zero resistance. Besides the blood getting everywhere and needing superglue to stop it, it grew back completely fine.

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I didn't look at the edge, I was just thinking of that idea while slicing some vegetables and coincidentally not paying attention at the same time.

Re: The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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In a study they figured out that organs seem to have an electrical potential range as a signature/command for stem cells for which organ to build and where.

In a frog they were able to grow legit eyes in the gut just by artificialy inducing a certain voltage in that area. No need for any cell transplantations: the voltage really seems to be the only signal needed.

This might also be how it might be done in the future in humans: block scar tissue then induce voltage with the signature of the organ you wish to regrow.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22159581/

Re: The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus, if he existed, didn't actually heal anyone or perform any miracles. That's mythology, not reality.

How do you know?

I think to claim that 2000 years ago there was one person who performed miracles and/or healed people that nobody else could, with no actual evidence it was done and nobody else has been able to do it since, you need a better response to someone questioning it than “oh were you there? prove it didn’t happen.”
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