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Okay, We Give Up [Scientific American "Caves" on Evolution]
Scientific American ^
| 01 April 2005 (ponder that)
| Editorial staff
Posted on 04/05/2005 8:56:03 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator
To: Lazamataz
No, no. The world is a disk that sits on the back of a giant turtle. The turtle had nothing to do with making it.
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:03:44 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:04:44 AM PDT
by
visualops
(Skepticism? Hmmm... I've got my doubts about that.)
To: dead
Do they intend to be a science publication or a political publication?...Actually, in their snitty way, I guess they did answer it. I'll not be renewing my subscription. Totally Agree...first, it was the Global Cooling (70s), Acid Rain (80s)...etc. Global Warning (90s) was the last straw...stopped mine in '94.
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:06:05 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: PatrickHenry
I got a year subscription using FF points, so it was free. After getting it for many months now, I must say I paid too much. They beat on Bush like a particle accelerator target.
To: RadioAstronomer
The one that got me good was their rope and pully computer from ancient times! I bought it hook line and sinker.You mean, it wasn't true. :^)
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:10:26 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: dighton; dead; general_re; Happygal; hellinahandcart; Nick Danger; JohnHuang2
I'll not be renewing my subscription.My cancellation list is growing by the day.
For example: Out, The New Yorker. In, Atlantic Monthly.
Fortunately, I tumbled to SA a long time ago and never read it.
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:10:27 AM PDT
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: PatrickHenry
That is hilarious! Marvellous stuff!
To: Mr. Jeeves
National Geographic answered that one for me last year, too. That's why I dumped them after 31 years Their "Was Darwin Wrong" attack on their readers caused me to cancel my subscription after 21 years as well.
To: dead
Actually, in their snitty way, I guess they did answer it. I'll not be renewing my subscription. I wrestle with the decision each year myself. I guess I read the leftist slanted articles on global warming to see what the "science" crowd thinks they can pass off as real science. As far as missile defense they have concluded that a few lost cities is OK with them. Strange since the leftists seem to like the cities. Oh well.
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:12:35 AM PDT
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
Comment #51 Removed by Moderator
To: PatrickHenry
Indeed. Our conservative scientists are a treasure!
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:14:26 AM PDT
by
Alamo-Girl
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To: skinkinthegrass
You mean, it wasn't true. :^)Oh man it got me good! HAHAHAHA!
(My colleagues kidded me for weeks! One even left a rope and pully on my desk. LMAO)
To: Dr. Zzyzx
Saying that Darwin was wrong was an "attack on their readers"? Is suppose for some readers who take their theories just a little too personally...
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:24:27 AM PDT
by
inquest
(FTAA delenda est)
Comment #55 Removed by Moderator
To: RadioAstronomer
One even left a rope and pully on my desk. I kept thinking about the early Geek Greek made computer-like Astrolabe (use mechanical gearing) found in that shipwreck in the 60s-70s. :)
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:28:02 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: PatrickHenry
If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security, you won't hear about it from us. This is exactly the thing that gives ammunition to the creationists. The ABM system is not only workable, it's already done it's job without even being in existence. The mere threat of ABM pushed the USSR over the brink of bankruptcy. It didn't matter if it really could have defended us against a full attack from the USSR, it was workable merely because the Russians believed it might have been.
The fact that SA is so politically blinded that it doesn't see this even in retrospect, is the evidence creationists use to accuse them of blindness in scientific matters like evolution.
The blind allegiance to environmental radicalism by SA and other mainstream scientific outlets also discredits them.
It's a sad day for real science, when they're daily attacked from the outside, and shooting themselves in the foot at the same time.
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:36:35 AM PDT
by
narby
To: dead
Do they intend to be a science publication or a political publication?They offer politically slanted science. I stopped my subscription to the Lysenko American many years ago.
To: RadioAstronomer
..found in that shipwreck in the 60s-70s 1900....comments by Price in 1974.
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posted on
04/05/2005 10:42:29 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
I kept thinking about the early Geek Greek made computer-like Astrolabe (use mechanical gearing) found in that shipwreck in the 60s-70s. :) That thing was pretty cool :-)
From here:
http://www.cciw.com/content/april_fools.html
"The Apraphulian computer was the subject of A. K. Dewdney's article, "Computer Recreations: An ancient rope-and-pulley computer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul" published in Scientific American, April 19, 1988. What begins as an April Fools' joke turns out to be an excellent explanation on the basic circuitry in a digital computer. "
:-)
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