Genetic Changes In Mice 'Question Evolution Speed'

Ananova ^ | 5-21-2003

[ALS]

You guys all sport secret squirrel darwin tattoos as well?

devoted moonies to the hilt

[f.Christian]

The full quote goes ...

"The great mystery of evolution is --- why there is no precambrain fossils" !

circa 1968 ... don't have the author !

[ALS]

That seems to be quite the problem for darwood, but not for his groupies...

[Aric2000]

Here, I'm sorry, but I have got to help you out, since no one else is.

Hypothesis:

A tentative explanation or idea about how things work
A hypothesis guides you in further work to get a better answer
Example of a hypothesis: "The moon is made of cheese" (note: this is the kind of hypothesis my wife would come up with). How could we test this hypothesis?

Construct a rocket to go to the moon and return with samples
Make a cheese pizza substituting the moon samples for the cheese
Ask people (e.g. graduate students. No, wait, they aren't real people…) to eat the pizza and see if they can tell any difference from pizza made with real cheeseTM (from Wisconsin)
Most likely conclusion: Hey, this pizza tastes like dirt
New hypothesis (altered to include additional information from above experiment): The moon is not made of cheese, but is made of dirt, sort of like the Earth

Theory:

A theory is an explanation of the general principles of certain phenomena with considerable facts to support it
A theory remains valid only if every new piece of information supports it
If a single piece of available information does not support a theory, then the theory (as proposed) is disproved


Or go here and it will give you a better idea.

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/modeltheory.html

You think that you are making fun of me with that tagline, when in fact, I am making fun of you.

It really is quite funny.

[longshadow]

"raging troll" placemarker

[Junior]

Un autre marque du place.

[ALS]

Still bothered by your own quote huh

You and darwood have something in common it seems.

However, according to the rules of evolunacy, you must privode at least 3 pages of context in order for it to be believable/understandale/spinnable.

ps - you're talking to me again. but you knew that, right?

[ALS]

"raging troll" placemarker


1,245 posted on 05/28/2003 7:25 PM CDT by longshadow


why dost the heathen rage?

[ALS]

Un autre marque du place.


1,246 posted on 05/28/2003 7:25 PM CDT by Junior


and yer French. as if we had to guess...

[Aric2000]

No, I'm not bothered, but you should be.

I was just trying to be helpful, you're the one being made fun of every time you post it.

Leaving it up is fine with me, but please make sure that my name is next to it please, it is common courtesy.

[ALS]

"In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with wide open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits with larger and larger mouths till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."—*Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859; 1964 edition), p. 184.

embrace the intelligence...

[Aric2000]

Besides the fact that I would like the credit for you making yourself look foolish.

[ALS]

"So under nature with the nascent giraffe, the individuals which were the highest browsers and were able, during dearths, to reach even an inch or two above the others, will often have been preserved . . By this process long-continued . . combined no doubt in a most important manner with the inherited effects of increased use of parts, it seems to me almost certain that any ordinary hoofed quadruped might be converted into a giraffe."—*Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species (1859), p. 202.

embrace the imagination...

[f.Christian]

aH2000 ...


"Darwins Hypothesis was full of holes, that have since been filled, that is why it is called a theory"


fC...

big holes --- little filler ... lotsa air !

[ALS]

"My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least I should hardly be accused of having started from any preconceived anti-evolutionary standpoint."—*H. Nilsson, Synthetic Speciation, (1953), p. 31.

[Dataman]

I want my wife to hear me laughing all the way downstairs.

You keep your wife in the basement?

[js1138]

If I were to take any two or three bits of text from unrelated parts of the Bible, starting in midsentence if I so choose, starting with a capital letter even though the quote starts in mid sentence, piecing the whole thing together, declaring it to be a single quote from a single verse, would you accept this as the word of God?

[js1138]

More doctored quotes...

Having been exposed as a dissembler, he now tries to bankrupt me.

[ALS]

is there an echo in here?

did you not ask this already and did i not answer?

hello... earth to js

meanwhile:
"Just as pre-Darwinian biology was carried out by people whose faith was in the Creator and His plan, post-Darwinian biology is being carried out by people whose faith is in, almost, the deity of Darwin. They've seen their task as to elaborate his theory and to fill the gaps in it, to fill the trunk and twigs of the tree. But it seems to me that the theoretical framework has very little impact on the actual progress of the work in biological research. In a way some aspects of Darwinism and of neo-Darwinism seem to me to have held back the progress of science."—*Colin Patterson [senior paleontologist at the British museum of Natural History, London], The Listener

pssst - you are holding back real science... pass it on

[ALS]

"Mutations rarely occur. Most genes mutate only once in 100,000 generations or more. Researchers estimate that a human gene may remain stable for 2,500,000 years."—*World Book Encyclopedia, 1966 Edition.

"It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation."—*Francisco J. Ayala, "Teleological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology," in Philosophy of Science, March 1970, p. 3.

"Although mutations is the ultimate source of all genetic variation, it is a relatively rare event."—F.J. Ayala, "Mechanism of Evolution," Scientific American, September 1978, p. 63.


be a good boy and go scan up some discreditation for the "gang".