Posted on 08/16/2004 9:40:47 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Then why bitch about it unless you are just another troll?
The apparent lack of such a resource opens the evolutionary community to questions.
It does NO such thing, this is a question for abiogenesis, not evolution.
Evolution starts when the first creatures that procreated appeared, any further back and you go into a whole other theory, or hypothesis actually, a number of them.
That field is abiogenesis, and Ichneumon made an excellent post with all kinds of resources in it about 4 pages back, I would advise you to go backand look at that post and study some of the very interesting work being doen in that field.
But again, you are trying to hurt evolution on questions it never asks.
Do you wish to try again, this time about evolution?
You are correct, thank you for that, I am running a fever of 102, so probably should not try to get at all technical, because I will miss something.
Thank you
Indeed it does. However, don't you think we should teach alternate viewpoints too?
:-)
My memory runs off, and drags me kicking and screaming with it.
Wow! You have the complete physiological definition of 4.3 billion year old bacteria? Time to write an article and win a Nobel prize!
Oh, wait, are you just assuming that bacteria haven't evolved in the last 4.3 billion years?
Oh, then, never mind.
Of course they haven't. How could they - there are no beneficial mutations. In fact, bacteria were once hyperintelligent beings, far more advanced than we. They built vast cities, and spaceships, and roamed the universe. Then those darn mutations started, and they slowly started to degenerate. By now they're only a single-celled shadow of their former selves.
Just look at cats.
Good old Felis Domesticus once enslaved mankind into worshipping them as gods.
And then they grew compacent, and our alien overlords then became pets..
They still try to uphold a pretense of their previous superiority.
/ joke
*chuckle*
Perhaps your interlocutor is unfamiliar with the term "state variable"......
I don't mind. But there are no chinks in the armor of the second law. In a modified form it recently "took down" Hawking.
Sez you. I could find you a dozen elegant perpetual motion machines of the second kind. It seems to me they ought to get equal billing.
Yeah, like the one sentence, religious mantra, "god did it".
Of all the reasoned criticisms I have seen leveled (which, of course, do not exist the instant they are out of your sight),
Could you attempt to be less vague?
every one has been dismissed rather than addressed.
Oh, utter horse manure. Do even *you* believe this crap you write? On this thread alone, the following creationist "challenges" have been "adressed rather than dismissed" (or "addressed *then* dismissed", as appropriate), even though you claim that "every one" has been treated vice versa:
nasamn777's "dice football field" analogy. Addressed in posts #318, #334, #366.And so on. Your overblown claim is quite simply false.nasamn777's "talkorigins leaves out stuff" charge. Addressed in post #317, #327, and #337.
Microgood claimed that evolution should require the number of species to continue to increase over time. This was addressed in post #324.
And anytime someone points out that the only trick you know (other than your disdain for unbelievers) is that one sentence,
How, when, and why did you get on this "one sentence" kick? And just how often do you imagine anyone else makes the same goofy point?
you roar about how the level of debate has never risen above that level.
No, we ask what in the heck you're going on about.
Are you sure you're even reading the same thread as the rest of us?
http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/793.html
Take a peek at that, it might interest you, if you are actually looking for answers, and not tilting at windmills.
What do you mean? Many, many, many of those PMMs get into the news. You just don't see many vehicles driving around with them providing the motive force.
That's because the Dictatorship of Evil Engineers makes sure they're excluded from auto plants.
So after you get drunk and bash up your new Escalade, are you going to blame the engineers at Cadillac?
They are always a disapointment, because once the gyro gets spinning, it's supposed to go forever, but they never tell you that you have to give it peanuts for the squirrel in the trunk....
huh?
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