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Our ears once breathed [evolution of ears]
Nature Magazine ^
| 18 January 2006
| Helen Pearson
Posted on 01/18/2006 6:10:34 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: ashtanga
It sounds like you have the right idea. I like the way you put that, bioligical change over time. I would like to see evolution taught in religious schools. And I am sure it is, because there are some really good parochial schools out there.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:51:40 PM PST
by
phantomworker
("Don't accuse me of your imagination.")
To: DouglasKC
Oh? I've never heard a mathematician state that 2 plus 2 might equal 4. Or a chemist say that a water molecule MIGHT contain two parts of hydrogen and one part oxygen. But maybe they're not real scientists.
1.9999999999 is deducted 2 and 1.9999999999 plus 1.9999999999 is 3.9999999998. 3.9999999998 is is deducted 4
H2O is water H3O is heavy water and exists in bodies of H2O. Both are water but heavy water is so named because of molecular weight difference.
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posted on
01/18/2006 9:56:25 PM PST
by
jec41
(Screaming Eagle)
To: razorbak
On the basis of this new fossil evidence, the team speculatesCheck out my post: 200.
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:04:38 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: wyattearp
I think it's bedtime now. %-)
Me too. No new revelations today.
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:17:30 PM PST
by
jec41
(Screaming Eagle)
To: PatrickHenry; ntnychik; devolve; PhilDragoo
Al Gore failed to evolve! He's breathing hard!!
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:22:09 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:27:01 PM PST
by
jennyp
(WWJBD?)
To: jennyp
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:31:00 PM PST
by
Rudder
To: PatrickHenry
There are times when my ears plug up so bad I feel like I can't breathe.
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:50:27 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: Rudder
This is very strange. Here's the URL:
http://69.64.39.6/cgi-bin/ImageFolio3/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Humor_and_Quirkyℑ=951203D.jpg&img=60&tt=
My IE interprets the "&image" part as some kind of HTML character & mucks it up. In fact, if you're using IE, all you see in the url above after "Humor_and_Quirky" is the unprintable character block! But Firefox, OTOH, handles it correctly.
Oh well. Here's the tinyurl for it. (That was a long walk for a short payoff, I'm sure. :-)
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posted on
01/18/2006 10:55:16 PM PST
by
jennyp
(WWJBD?)
To: crghill
I don't want there to be a God. I don't want to be responsible to a God. I don't want to think that maybe I'm not the highest thing in the Universe. But more than anything, I don't want you to think that their is a God who is smarter than we scientists because in our little world, WE ARE GOD.
For the vast vast majority of them that says it all crghill.
Wolf
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posted on
01/18/2006 11:59:57 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
To: qam1
I went to school with some other chemists who claimed did not accept evolution in ANY way. I then asked them if they understood the principles involved in the process of bacterial resistance, and if so, whether they wanted to change their claim a little ;) Got alot of 'er..um..er'...
To: wfallen
"Although evolution has been falsified, it is not through thermodynamics."
Just a short LOL before I go on.
"It's [evolutions] main problem are that
1.) it cant credibly explain how something as complicted as the first cell was formed from random reactions."
It's like teaching math to some kids which always answer "I'll never understand it!" instead of listening.
- The theory of evolution doesn't try to explain the origin of life. It's about the origin of species. -
"2.) where the raw material came from."
For that problem astronomy provides a solution: stardust.
Is the theory of gravity wrong because it doesn't answer the origin of mass?
"It third problem falsifies it. It cant explain how 'irreducibly complex' organisms evolve, in contradiction of its own 'natural selection' postulate."
Pardon, but it was often shown wrong here on FR.
The limited definition of IC itself can't exclude evolutionary process to reach an IC status. So even if you can show us anything IC in biology you can't exclude evolution or introduce some designer or FSM. You still lack of showing us something that is IC.
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posted on
01/19/2006 12:47:22 AM PST
by
MHalblaub
(Tell me in four more years (No, I did not vote for Kerry))
To: jec41
H2O is water H3O is heavy water and exists in bodies of H2O.H2O is water, and also heavy water. In ordinary water, the hydrogen atoms are almost entirely the light isotope of hydrogen, 1H, occasionally called protium. In heavy water, they are a heavier isotope of hydrogen, 2H, also called deuterium. The chemical formula of both, however, is the same.
To: DouglasKC
"Or a chemist say that a water molecule MIGHT contain two parts of hydrogen and one part oxygen."
Chemist are always a little bit lazy about that. A water molecule may also contain deuterium (heavy water) or tritium or oxygen-16, oxygen-17 or oxygen-18.
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posted on
01/19/2006 1:21:27 AM PST
by
MHalblaub
(Tell me in four more years (No, I did not vote for Kerry))
To: potlatch
They could drink a beer
Thru each ear
-- Mia Angeloopy
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posted on
01/19/2006 2:04:06 AM PST
by
devolve
(<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
To: DouglasKC
"Oh? I've never heard a mathematician state that 2 plus 2 might equal 4."
Mathematics is founded on axioms.
"In mathematics, an axiom is not necessarily a self-evident truth but rather, a formal logical expression used in a deduction to yield further results. Mathematics distinguishes two types of axioms: logical axioms and non-logical axioms."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom
Your problem with 2 + 2 is it is per definition 4.
Mathematics is a philosophy and not natural science.
There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics.
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posted on
01/19/2006 2:04:25 AM PST
by
MHalblaub
(Tell me in four more years (No, I did not vote for Kerry))
To: PatrickHenry; All
FYI
From the article:These allow the fish to inhale water over their gills while lying on the seabed, and avoid gulping in grit through the mouth.
I've kept rays in aquariums. In addition to moving water over their gills, they'll also squirt it out of their mouth to stir up the sand/gravel to find food.
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posted on
01/19/2006 2:40:32 AM PST
by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to lie - joebucks)
To: Emmett McCarthy
All these "discoveries" and "facts" seem to be set 370 million years ago. Ever seen a shark or a ray?
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posted on
01/19/2006 2:42:47 AM PST
by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to lie - joebucks)
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Not this crap again. It's the only crap she's got ...
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posted on
01/19/2006 2:49:16 AM PST
by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to lie - joebucks)
To: crghill
Let me translate the article for you:
I don't want there to be a God. I don't want to be responsible to a God. I don't want to think that maybe I'm not the highest thing in the Universe. But more than anything, I don't want you to think that their is a God who is smarter than we scientists because in our little world, WE ARE GOD.
---
And I will now translate the above posting, showing all the relevant and truthful parts:
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