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Evolution versus creationism (sometimes hot!). (Moderated)
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Ye Old One the Plagiarist.
 
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Ye Old Plagiarist has the thickest skin of any poster on the Usenet. Having been ridiculed for his abuse of women, idiocies and plagiarism, he continues to copy and paste articles as if nothing happened. Anybody with modicum of a conscience or any dignity would have disappeared and taken on a new "hobby."... more »
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Humans and Dinosaur coexistence cover up
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[link] "But he said our bones of the hominid and the dinosaur were together, in hard sandstone, and that they had to become the fossils at the same time, 140 million years ago, in the Upper Jurassic. The dinosaur is apparently trying to eat the cave-man, and then both became killed in... more »
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Speciation etc on Radio 4
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Auntie Beeb's Radio 4 offers an interesting non-technical, possibly over-simplified, prog about whitebeams, /Sorbus spp/, speciating before our eyes (<fundie bleat/>"...but they're still whitebeams" </fundie bleat>). Repeated on Wednesday 6th at 2100hrs; IIUC, it annoyingly won't come up on iPlayer.... more »
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Information Theory and Genomes
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I have to admit my grasp of Information Theory is tenuous at best, but I would like to run something past you guys and see if I am on the right track. So here goes. If an apparently random message is made up of just four different symbols (like the nucleotides of a DNA sequence), would the maximum storage requirement for each symbol be two binary digits?... more »
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News: Evolution Of A Beneficial Mutation.
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Evolution Of A Beneficial Mutation By: Bradley Fikes — January 3rd, 2010 [link] Evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski has demonstrated evolutionary methods in computer models and long-running breeding programs with the bacterium E. coli. A new paper he co-authored documents the evolution... more »
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Is this just a Google problem?
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Is this current lack of postings a general failure of the system or just Google? Just seeing when, if ever this is going to show up. Ron Okimoto
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Dog genome may hold key to one of humanity's own diseases
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Dog genes may hold secrets to human disease By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | January 4, 2010 Scientists scouring the genome to better understand complex human diseases are looking to an unlikely ally for guidance: our pets. Dogs have been an integral part of human life for centuries. It is precisely because of that intertwined history that dogs are a... more »
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Is Google groups working?
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Ok, I admit, I use Google groups, neither comcast nor at&t seem to still offer access to usenet feeds. :( so the few groups I read have to come through Google. Anyway, I am not seeing any posts from today (4th) in TO and am wondering if I Google is at fault or some other thing is wrong. I am, however, seeing posts in other groups from today.... more »
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News: How the worlds first flowers evolved.
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How the worlds first flowers evolved [link] Washington, January 2 : A new study led by Florida Museum of Natural History researchers is helping shed light on the evolution of the first flowers in the world. Charles Darwin described the sudden origin of flowering plants, which... more »
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