Human brain result of 'extraordinarily fast' evolution

The Guardian (UK) ^ | Wednesday December 29, 2004 | Alok Jha, science correspondent

[balrog666]

Don't forget the genius, Jacob Bronowski!

[VadeRetro]

... And the bottom two aren't wrong. I'm having quite a night, and I haven't had a drop.

[balrog666]

And the bottom two aren't wrong. I'm having quite a night, and I haven't had a drop.

Then you aren't having enough of a night!

[VadeRetro]

I think he claims we ascended rather than fell. Good for him!

[VadeRetro]

Was about to crack one of those little quarter bottles of merlot. (That's a 188 ml bottle, not a 25 cent bottle.) It'll probably decrease my error rate.

[balrog666]

I think he claims we ascended rather than fell. Good for him!

Yes, he certainly did! He's been replaying lately on the History Channel or one of the Discovery channels. Or somewhere.

[balrog666]

Was about to crack one of those little quarter bottles of merlot. (That's a 188 ml bottle, not a 25 cent bottle.) It'll probably decrease my error rate.

Merlot? Ugh! It's a rare Merlot that is worth drinking.

OTOH, we've been cleaning out the cellar by drinkling all the "Pinot Grigio". After a few glasses you do get used to it. But I think tomorrow is going to be a baaaaad day.

[VadeRetro]

It does take work. And that's why, having chased down a few of his "quotes," I'm confident that my opinion of his track record is justified. His posts are rubbish.

Just like tracing DNA relationships by the viral infection scars, you can trace the "scientific" basis of creationist scholarship from the bloopers in the stuff they crib off each other. I'll have to look for that pairing of "The Descent of Man" and "Preservation of Favored Races" in future posts.

My other favorite is "... the boy from Tukana ...," where "... the boy from Turkana ..." occurs in the Lubenow original. (Turkana being a lake in Africa and Lubenow being a creationist.)

[VadeRetro]

Ugh! It's a rare Merlot that is worth drinking.

There seems to be an odd disorder in your taste buds. Well, more for me!

[PatrickHenry]

I'll have to look for that pairing of "The Descent of Man" and "Preservation of Favored Races" in future posts.

It's a curious error. First we have this:
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. .

And then there's this: THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX.

[VadeRetro]

When something is being copied endlessly around forever by people who wouldn't FOR ANYTHING risk their souls by reading the purported original, there's no limit to what error can do.

[PatrickHenry]

I'm looking over those google hits for the mis-matched titles. The first four are freerepublic addresses. All seem to have the title wrong. Not surprising. We've got a lot of 'noids on this website.

The next two have it wrong also. The last two, however, seem to have that subtitle appended to Origin of Species, so they're apparently okay.

[VadeRetro]

Also, if you substitute Darwin's original British "favoured" for "favored," you only get one hit and it's actually right. The point of origin of the error in Matchett-PI's cribbed BS is the good ol' USA. It has been recycled on FreeRepublic by a few people amplifying each other with their fantasy version of how "science is discrediting Darwin."

[Elsie]

Sure, I just want to repeat it, as there are folks on this thread who did not participate last time.

[Elsie]

It's the time-frame, right, that you don't agrre with; for surely you believe that it DOES speak to people today, don't you?

[Elsie]

You say to-mah-to.........

[Elsie]

When something is being copied endlessly around forever by people who wouldn't FOR ANYTHING risk their souls by reading the purported original, there's no limit to what error can do.

Are you talking about DNA replication here?

[D Edmund Joaquin]

What are your disagreements with Darwin and macroevolution?

They are true believers and have no disagreements. The reason for this is that they know the theory is true. When believers know that strongly that something is true they don't question it. (Notice how absolutely no proponent of evolution here, ever questions even one little thing about it.)

And "when you don't question it, you're living by faith, not by science."(Ian Stewart, quoted from Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos)

For these people here, few of them scientists, mind you, they are defending dogma

[VadeRetro]

Sure, I just want to repeat it, as there are folks on this thread who did not participate last time.

And if you outlive me, you win.

[skylight4u]

Very interesting thread.

So many passionate self delusions expressed.

Apparently people can "believe" "trust" "have faith" and even "know" a theory to be true and get absolutely nowhere except to justify their own ego and pride that drives their interpretation of how we got here.