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Evolution versus creationism (sometimes hot!). (Moderated)
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Side note on deep time
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One of the more annoying native plants where I live (Texas) is the locust tree. Which apparently exists to make mesquites look wimpy and human- friendly. Instead of sticking with needle-sharp thorns in the half-inch or less range, locust trees really overdo it. The trunk is a mass of two or three inch thorns pointing in all directions at porcupine-like... more »
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How Unreliable Is Evolution? Let's See:
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"The findings mean that instead of humanity being 99.9 per cent identical, as previously believed, we are at least 10 times more different between one another than once thought - which could explain why some people are prone to serious diseases." "Another implication of the finding is that we are more different to... more »
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The inside info
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One of the perrennial claims of creationists is that evolutionary processes cannot create "new information". The idea (if one can dignify it thereby) is that there is, or at least ought to be, a law that states: "information can neither be created nor destroyed." Conservation of information, although desireable for creationism, is... more »
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It's hard being green
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Here is a curious thing: there are no green mammals, as far as I know. There are green birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, but no green mammals. How come is that? Anybody know?
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historical era human evolution firmly documented yet again
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Oh, my, how inconvenient for the creationists. More evidence has been gathered that evolution _does_ apply, even to humans, and has been observed by researchers to have occurred in modern times. This is a result creationists dread, since the main impetus for creationism, disputing that humans are just another kind of ape, falls if evolution in... more »
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Cats brain is a Go. at IBM.
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They have simulated a cortex and theirs contains 1 billion spiking neurons and 10 trillion individual learning synapses. Exactly, I asked the same question, "why a cat"? Some interesting figures here; "For some scale reference points, consider this: A cat cortex has roughly 760 million neurons and 6 trillion synapses.... more »
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palin, naipul and creationism
 
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andrew sullivan has a comment posted on his website from a reader regarding palin and efforts to bring her to rationality from her lies: I couldn't help but think that it's a fruitless effort. There's nothing under the facade. She believes her own myths. She is ignorant and foolish enough to accept modern conservative slogans as true and... more »
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