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Evolution versus creationism (sometimes hot!). (Moderated)
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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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Doctrine of Signatures: Why not ID support?
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The Doctrine of Signatures was a belief popular among herbalists, in the 16th century, that held that God had placed a sign in various medicinal plants indicating what the plant was best used for. [link] For example, if the plant had heart shaped leaves, it was believed... more »
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Jesus of Siberia?
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I'm riding a bike like Jesus rode a donkey. Do you get the hint? There's no place for Quixotes or Jesuses! Or do you think there's a place for a modern Jesus? —Jesus of Siberia Back in 1989, as the Soviet regime was collapsing, a man from the Siberian town of Minusinsk, named Sergei Torop, lost his job as a... more »
By His Highness Comandante Banana, King Of The Apes I & Chief of Quixotic Enterprises -
Nov 20
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