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Read Me: Topics and Guidelines Natural Science 301
February 7th 2007
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showmeproof
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Posted: Today
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Macroevolution is most often discussed in terms of the fossil record, position of fossils in geologic column, position relative to other fossils in the geologic column etc. Predictions can be made about body structure and what one would see in the distant past (through study of fossils in the geologic column) based upon what is present. This has been well documented and discussed in another thread concerning Tiktaalik, and can also be seen in other organisms. I have long been a proponent of...
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grmorton
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Posted: Today
@ 01:30 AM
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Yes, global warming is still hard at work for you ladies and gentlemen. October was the 3rd coldest October ever. Yes, the 2nd coldest was 1977 and the coldest was 1925. The temperature was FOUR degrees F below the 20th century average. That is a HUGE amount of cooling. Yet anthropogenic global warming advocates will, of course, ignore this fact. They will also ignore the 3000 record low temperatures in July this year and the cool August as well.
from the government...
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grmorton
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Posted: Today
@ 01:30 AM
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Watch this lunatic make a scientific fool of himself. You only need to watch the darn add that comes up first then about 40 -50 seconds of the entire tape.
In this you learn that the earth's interior is several million degrees hot, and we have developed drill bits with which we can drill into such heat-as these bits don't melt, even in such high temperatures.
For all you guys who like to take YECs to task for their scientific silliness, would you have the guts to take Al to task for his...
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2cents
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Posted: Today
@ 12:18 AM
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If you believe in the theory of evolution, you should not have any problem with global warning because
1) this has happened before - isn't it that the ice age passed due to global warming
2) global warming can bring good thing - because of global warming human evolve well (i guess)
3) global warming phenomenom is not yet over - since it started (end of ice age), global warming haven't stop (my theory based on my understanding). It will edn when ice age begins:wink:.
So the debate of global...
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grmorton
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 11:58 PM
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When I was living in the UK I was sent on a trip to Dublin to look at some prospective acreage offshore Ireland. I traveled with a friend and geologist named Graham. Graham was a rabid socialist and described himself that way. Until that trip he was unaware that I was a strong conservative politically. The trip from Aberdeen, which should have taken about 4 hours took 10+ and we landed in Dublin at 2 am. That delay gave Graham and I lots of time to debate all forms of politics. He told me...
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gerry
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 11:44 PM
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There was no intelligible order prevailing in things when according to the theorists of evolution variety of life species came about.
Briefly described, the theory of evolution claims that there was a first species even a first one unit of life form, from which all species and every individual living things owe their beginning.
This assumption is already problematic, but let it pass; while the proponents of evolution will insist that there is a lot of misconception and misinformation and...
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Stax
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 11:37 PM
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As requested. The topic is YEC.
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grmorton
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 11:32 PM
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As promised a couple of days ago on the Peak Oil Still Future Thread, I am starting this thread to discuss the science of petroleum and how it affects the science of economics. I have run into a couple of data points with regard to future production.
"In 2008, 108 exploration and appraisal wells were drilled off the UK, similar to 2007 levels.
"However, in 2009 only 34 wells have rig slots so far, according to Oil & Gas UK statistics."
"It is therefore very concerning that, since 2004...
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grmorton
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 10:08 PM
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Modified from my blog http://themigrantmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/holocene-denial-syndrome.html
First came the holocaust--a horrible mass-murder, a genocide, in that day condemned by one
and all. Then came the holocaust deniers, people who were rightly condemned for denying
the obvious killing of 6 million people. Then came the idea of global warming; and in the rush
to shut up anyone who doubted what the global warming community, with its political allies,
said, the term 'global warming...
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CTD___
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 02:06 PM
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{1}One of the single most fundamental assumptions we make in these discussions is that some sort of "theory" of evolution exists. Clearly this is something that we should not have to assume. If it exists, it should be available. Indeed, it must have been available in the past, if it has been tested already, right?
I would like to read it. I may be mistaken, and I may learn something. At this moment, I do not believe there is an actual "theory" of evolution. I used to take it for granted; I've...
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Abigail
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 07:56 AM
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I am not sure exactly what I believe re dualism, however reading the (recycled) blog at DC today I think sometimes people (especially athiests ) are all to quick to conclude that there is no such thing and sometimes the stories they quote in support of their view are not all they seem to be at first glance.
Eg:
Interesting. However the guy didn't exactly spell he wanted to be a racer, but rather he spelled out 'automobile race' Now if you ask yourself what does a draughtsman and an...
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Tiggy
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Posted: Yesterday
@ 01:28 AM
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Our resident anti-science AGW denying wingnut has become enamored with posting photos of temper sensors close to heat sources, and challenging anyone to explain them.
OK here goes. The US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), maintained by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) uses a series of 1221 sensors at various places around the country to chart the average US temperature over the last century.
The USHCN knows that not all sensors are placed optimally, some have been...
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Ansgar Seraph
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Posted: November 20th 2009
@ 01:03 PM
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I have omitted a summary of the history and morphology concerning giraffe evolution. It should be considered a supplement to my OP and not necessary reading. Since I had originally included the history and morphology in this essay, some references to ancestral artiodactyls can be traced in the supplement. Anyone interested in these topics or in an easily-printable version of the essay can PM me.
I would also ask that this thread be limited, for the time being, to Jorge and myself. Jorge...
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Jorge
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Posted: November 20th 2009
@ 11:27 AM
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Coming at you from the not-so-sunny mountains of Manchester, Tennessee.
On my way here I saw the following advertisement:
VISIT RACCOON MOUNTAIN & CAVERNS, ESTABLISHED 500,000 BC
I kept wondering where the '500,000 BC' label was printed. :huh:
I also wondered if, besides that date, the label also showed
Made in Taiwan or China or Mexico or Korea or Japan.
Those kinds of questions stay with me for a long time. :hehe:
Anyway, that's another subject.
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rogue06
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Posted: November 19th 2009
@ 10:07 PM
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On this thread I plan on highlighting new fossil discoveries.
First up is the discovery of the nearly complete skeleton of a tiny pterodactyl, called Nemicolopterus crypticus, in the western part of China's Liaoning Province in northeastern China. What makes this find so unique, aside from being one of the smallest pterosaurs known, possessing a wingspan of only 10,” is that it had curved foot bones. This means that unlike its larger cousins, which lived near shorelines eating fish, this...
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Darwin's Dog
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Posted: November 19th 2009
@ 08:21 PM
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The most prime example of this doomsday prediction at the moment.
The above link contains many "reasons" why the world will come to an end in 2012.
I don't believe this thing for one tiny second, but I'm wondering what your take on 2012 is.
My own take is that humans have an innate tendency to worry about the future, making doomsday predictions like that.There are numerous, and I do mean numerous, examples in the history of civilization.The so called "reasons" used to justify 2012 range from...
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rogue06
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Posted: November 18th 2009
@ 07:36 PM
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William Dembski, the prominent advocate of Intelligent Design and proponent of irreducible complexity is upset with a critical review over at RationalWiki of his and Robert Marks paper "The Search for a Search - Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search," claiming copyright infringement because the authors exceeded fair usage.
Considering that the article at RationalWiki states in the opening that “To preserve the thoughts of Marks and Dembski for posterity, here are the first...
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CTD___
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Posted: November 18th 2009
@ 06:03 PM
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I came across an interesting piece of philosophy, and I thought it might prove an interesting topic for discussion. At this time I'd prefer people to evaluate it on its own merit, so I'm minimizing the emotional bias by excluding the author's name from my post.
I see both strengths and weaknesses involved in the approach advocated by the author
It is my intent that the whole of the quoted text be subject to discussion in this thread, and I'll get the ball rolling by offering my opinion on...
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oxmixmudd
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 16th 2009
@ 04:16 AM
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Hi All,
This one is for our astronomy buffs. A bit of nostalgia is also involved.
This time I was not walking the dog while listening to the iPod. However I was walking and the iPod was speaking to my ear.
The iPod article was from a national radio program titled “Star Stuff”, and one of the topics of conversation brought back memories of the first time I became involved with YEC.
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grmorton
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Posted: November 16th 2009
@ 12:31 AM
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The worst thing we Christians can do is to tie the infallible Word of God to a falsified Scriptural interpretation. I have presented data as to why the young-earth (YE) interpretation of the Scripture simply won’t explain the geologic data. The silence on the part of the YEers is evidence that Answers in Genesis not only has no answers for this data, but also they never show their readers such things, leaving them totally and unfairly unprepared to deal with geology.
I am going to present an...
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Tiggy
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Posted: November 15th 2009
@ 09:16 PM
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Ray "banana man" Comfort has been in the news recently for his plan to distribute 100,000 copies of Darwin's Origin Of Species with a 50 page special "introduction" by Ray himself. As you may guess, the "intro" is an idiotic rant from a scientific ignoramus, and tosses out many of the same old stupid PRATTS (2nd law of thermo, irreducible complexity, etc.) along with some incredibly bad theology.
Now it turns out that a good chunk of Ray's intro describing Darwin's early life was plagiarized...
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Jaecp
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Posted: November 15th 2009
@ 05:55 PM
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From a thread of over in Apologetics.
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/showpost.php?p=2829021&postcount=77
Volcano Rocket was telling me things like
There is a number of stuff there that is odd, like a treating the supernatural like it includes, essentially, any explanation that isn't "proven" in the colloquial sense, by scientific inquiry.
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DMCanuck
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Posted: November 14th 2009
@ 10:21 PM
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Breaking news!
N.A.S.C.A.R. found the consonant letters H, J, K, L, M, N and the vowels I and O in the moon dust!
The letters had been missing since Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Alphabet on April 9, 1865.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who in 1969 made his historic Apollo 11 moonwalk with Neil Armstrong (and more importantly an avid N.A.S.C.A.R. fan) was pleased to hear of the latest discovery, but still believes N.A.S.C.A.R should focus on finding the remaining letters of the Alphabet on...
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 14th 2009
@ 06:14 PM
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Hi All,
This essay reports on a series of experiments in which researchers showed how the evolution of new sex chromosomes also drove reproductive isolation. This was achieved by:-
1) Demonstrating that the new sex chromosomes had evolved in large part via chromosome fusion.
2) Determining the factors that maintain reproductive isolation.
3) Showing that some of these factors moved onto the new sex chromosomes from the old sex chromosomes.
And all this within a fish that could be deemed...
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 14th 2009
@ 06:05 PM
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Hi All,
I decided to bring this forward.
Just to keep it real, nice and simple for Jorge, seanD and CTD__
The following is the abstract for reference (1)
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 13th 2009
@ 05:29 PM
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An interesting one from "RedRuth" at CARM. And a good one for Jorge to contemplate - the idea of one gene acting as a master control for other genes.
The implication is – a wee amount of evolution in a master control can have profound affects elsewhere. Now consider the claim you made to Sam about what is needed for giraffe neck evolution:-
The blurb announcing the main article:
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091111/full/news.2009.1079.html
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grmorton
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Posted: November 13th 2009
@ 01:55 AM
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The incredible eco-wacko-nuttery is like a cancer on our nation and the world. As will be shown below, some want us to eat our pets. Others want us to eat human breast-milk ice cream source. And then there are the Holocene-denying AGW hysteriacs, who think our current climate is unprecedented, showing how utterly ignorant they are. But they battle on. The following is from my blog a few days ago:
Having lived in China and having eaten dog, the above title is not something that repels me. I...
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 12th 2009
@ 08:14 PM
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Hi All,
At this link:-
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03islam.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
you will read the following -
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 11th 2009
@ 08:37 PM
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http://www.physorg.com/news176660912.html
This one looks to be a beauty.
Thanks to a poster named supersport for bringing this to our attention.
Rogue? If you wish to put this in your fossils thread, then feel free.
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rogue06
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Posted: November 11th 2009
@ 03:07 PM
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Transitional fossils are strongly suggestive of Evolution since they have characteristics that are intermediate in nature to organisms that existed both prior to it and after it.
When Darwin first published his "Origin of Species" he stressed that the lack of transitional fossils was the most formidable obstacle to his theory. At that time very little was known about the fossil record and complaints that there were a lack of any transitional fossils were understandable. Since that time,...
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Theoferrum
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Posted: November 10th 2009
@ 04:58 PM
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This aught to stir up some debate.
Young earthers have no problem accepting the many anomalous artifacts that have been found, like man made objects found in coal, shale, and other 'million year old' strata, yet these facts are ignored by Evolutionists and many 'old earthers'.
A metal sphere found in a 3 Billion Year old chunk of Precambrian Strata and Letters found in a chunk of 500 Million Year old Marble.
And, the kicker, is the man made hammer found embeded in a chunk of Cretaceuas...
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rogue06
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Posted: November 10th 2009
@ 04:04 PM
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Well this is eye-opening if accurate.
Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent. In other words, a biological specimen determined by traditional DNA testing to be 100,000 years old may actually be 200,000 to 600,000 years old, researchers suggest in a new...
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Collier
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Posted: November 9th 2009
@ 11:35 PM
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Several years ago a little girl was walking through the back lane, where garbage was out waiting to be picked up. Something caught her eye, and she took it home to show her mother.
"Look, Mom," she said, holding up her prize. "Somebody threw away a perfectly good cat."
"Perfectly good" - for nothing. The cat was dead.
So what is life, anyway? Has anyone come up with a good scientific (or medical) definition? Or maybe more than one?
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Zimri
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Posted: November 9th 2009
@ 02:15 PM
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Hi all,
You may or may not remember me. I was active in this forum last summer. Then I became very busy with my uni work and now I'm in my final year. I have been assigned a project looking at the antimicrobial properties of plants and I've been breaking my head over this. I'm trying to find the most obscure plants to test for i.e no published work (in the scientific literature) on these plants and I'm failing miserably on this. Its shocking (for a newbie like me) how much is published and...
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rogue06
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Posted: November 8th 2009
@ 08:34 PM
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The Ice Age. The term usually refers to the most recent global cold period that peaked roughly 20,000 years ago in which sheets of ice thousands of feet thick covered much of Asia, Europe and North America (and likewise the land masses of the Southern Hemisphere to a lesser extent), although technically it appears there were at least four of these events in Earth’s history.
This isn’t going to be about the various Ice Ages, or the mechanisms that may have brought them about, but rather to ask...
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Jorge
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Posted: November 8th 2009
@ 07:14 PM
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Next week I will be meeting with Dr. John Sanford to discuss several issues related
to his work and book Genetic Entropy. This is being done using my own time and
financial resources - I am not taking up a collection here. :smile:
If you wish to submit some input / questions for Dr. Sanford, here's your chance.
I cannot guarantee that your input will be addressed but I will make an attempt.
The magnitude of my effort to address your input will be proportional to its value.
It would be...
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 8th 2009
@ 04:49 PM
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http://www.physorg.com/news176721370.htmlNASA/
(Thanks to Hamed Khan at CARM for bringing this to our attention.)
Regards, Roland
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rogue06
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Posted: November 7th 2009
@ 08:43 PM
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A new study finds that a change in a single gene has sent two closely related bird populations on their way to becoming two distinct species. The study, published in the August issue of the American Naturalist, is one of only a few to investigate the specific genetic changes that drive two populations toward speciation.
Speciation, the process by which different populations of the same species split into separate species, is central to evolution. But it's notoriously hard to observe in...
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 7th 2009
@ 03:10 PM
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Seriously though folks, this is an interesting piece of research .
Mr Fernandez has been busy undertaking research on mysteries regarding the complexity of the human genome. He and his fellow researchers think they have uncovered a mechanism explaining this complexity, in part at least. It has to do with the consequences of gene and genome duplication, and what the genetic system does in order to cope with this occurrence.
Here are the details in layman’s terms:
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 6th 2009
@ 10:58 PM
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Hi All,
What follows is another example of testing evolutionary hypotheses and theories. My thanks to SteveF at TR for bringing this to our attention. His purpose at TR was simply to bring this to the attention of readers there, and hopefully you will agree, the quotes are interesting.
Do high mutation rates cause genomic meltdown? Maybe not. Researchers had thought that such a scenario may in fact occur. However the theory behind this was somewhat piecemeal. And so some scientists...
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USIncognito
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Posted: November 4th 2009
@ 09:41 PM
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Tuesday night PBS will start airing a three part Nova series on human evolution called "Becoming Human". Here's a link to a preview video of the show.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1300385165/
Also, and I'm not going to post any links for it, but I read a review in the Dallas Morning News of a new illustrated version of Genesis by Robert Crumb. Yes, the R. Crumb who brought us Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. If the artwork is anything like the example page printed with the review it's bound to...
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Pai Geacademe
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Posted: November 4th 2009
@ 07:35 PM
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https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5823596693953871104&postID=5134479834533748223
Actually, those are the comments on Ray's blog to his apology, which I find much more engaging than the apology itself. Atheists are very decent and understanding folk, it appears.
This guy's world seems to be crashing all around him. With so many lies told and so little honest research conducted, it doesn't surprise me that this is happening. The interesting bit -- the truly sad part if you are a...
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Darth Executor
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Posted: November 4th 2009
@ 12:34 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6494213/Climate-change-belief-given-same-legal-status-as-religion.html
Thanks for confirming what a lot of us already knew. :thumb:
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rogue06
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Posted: November 4th 2009
@ 11:11 AM
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At least according to the calculations of the Archbishop James Ussher who in 1658 declared the Earth was created at precisely 9AM on October 23rd, 4004 BC. I wonder if anyone realizes that he calculated the year of creation by starting with the known dates (confirmed through secular science btw) of the reign of the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II and subtracting the life spans of the patriarchs as stated in the Bible?
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 4th 2009
@ 10:10 AM
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Hi All,
The above was posted to CTD__ about 5 days ago, providing him with the theory of evolution.
It took several attempts to get him to address it. When he finally did, he simply responded with:-
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grmorton
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Posted: November 3rd 2009
@ 11:37 PM
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that occasionally one must look out the window at the actual weather rather than a model.
I must confess that I am shocked that the very groupie-thinking BBC let this one get by their editors, but the headline is: What ever happened to global warming?"
"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that
the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in
global...
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superdan54
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Posted: November 3rd 2009
@ 01:08 PM
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Thought this would stir up some spirited discussion. Apparently a new print has been found in North Texas near the infamous Paluxy River.
http://www.mineralwellsindex.com/homepage/local_story_210093256.html
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Theoferrum
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wattsr1
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Posted: November 2nd 2009
@ 07:47 PM
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YEC "science" often relies on miracle.
Yet when it comes to explaining how we can understand miracle, it is deemed to be utterly beyond our comprehension. All we can say is - "Well, it's a miracle".
Thus, God did ordain a universe in which completely random processes occur throughout time. God made it that way. YECs appear to have no problems with this, when it comes to certain phenomena.
These phenomena are random in that there is no way any human can predict an outcome other than by...
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