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Evolution versus creationism (sometimes hot!). (Moderated)
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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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"Survival of the Sickest"
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Cornelius Hunter should read this book...LOL It explains how so many diseases are actually adaptations to stresses...better to live to 30 and reproduce than die at 2 and not...
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