Posted on 05/05/2009 12:00:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The cable networks were starting to foam at the mouth thinking about how they were going to keep their audience now that swine flu is fading...
This was on CSI last Thursday. Sort of.
Are you aware of this?
ping FWIW
Critter *ping*
Yes ma'm!
But I thank you for the link (and ping)
This is frightening - bats, coyotes, fox, javelina, raccoons - it has become dangerous to even walk our pets!
Oh, good. I was getting tired of the swine flu.
Cap’n Tripps — at least a more likely version than the “swine flu” aka H1N1 aka a flu strain covered by last year’s type 1 influenca vaccine...
This whole article must just be made up because evolution is, you know, not real and all...
Actually, evolution is not real. Mutation is not the same as “Evolution,” this respect to your haughty sarcasm. There has never been any evidence, ever of one species transforming into another. Oh, we have mutation, it occurs among offspring of many, but a species is a set of organisms one that is genetically able to reproduce viable and fertile offspring, and will do so in a given population grouping.
and that is the evolutionists silly little misconception. Mutation never has proven “Evolution.” God created all things after their kind, and they never have leaped from one species to another, although characteristics vary from one individual to its offspring. Grow up and don’t please don’t taunt believers just for a gratification for your own pride. Evolution doesn’t apply to this virus, because viruses are not living anyway, they can be identified as neither living nor non-living, they are not in any of the kingdom’s of life, they are encapsulated genetic material incapable of reproduction.
Bark up another tree please.
Runaway mutating viruses all over the place! Has someone been messing around?
Must be caused by global warming. We better hurry up and implement “carbon taxes” to fight this.
BTTT
Sometimes a cigar is just a joke.
Wow.
We need nationalized health care right away!
2) Implications for punctuated equilbrium happening by multiple methods -- e.g. environmentally-driven vs. genetic drift (skunks haven't changed, this one must be random)
3) Corollary implications for "genetic clocks" -- what determines how often an punctuated event happens, how regularly/irregularly, and implications for cladistics and dating of species by genetic similarities.
Haven't seen them discussed in these threads: only a couple of FReepers would be competent to discuss them, and they're not on speaking terms with me :-(
Have an all-day training seminar at work, have to run.
g_w Cheers!
Fair 'nuff, in its own way, if you arent' begging the question/engaged in circular reasoning.
But as a riposte, the fundamental mistake evolutionists make is assuming any designer gave us the original blueprints and design requirements, acting as an engineer and not an artist, and that there have been no vandals in the workshop.
Their "zeroth order" model of theism contradicts the actual beginning tenets of most monotheic religions. Equal a priori probabilities and Occam's razor and all that, but those are only *meant* to be used when you are entering blind, and wish to minimize false positives. Religion at least *claims* to be revealed (attacking the first point, as some people -- and/or deities and spirits are more trustworthy than others); and the a priori / razor approach gives little confidence in protecting against false negatives.
State of the art of my thinking on it at the moment. (Read my tagline tho'.)
Sometimes a cigar is just a joke.
And sometimes it's an expensive hand-rolled Cuban.
How *does* one go about telling the difference, Monica?
:-P
Cheers!
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