Posted on 07/04/2006 8:42:50 AM PDT by DouglasKC
TheCreationNetwork comes to mind...you know, those wacky 1/2hr programs, that, at least in my area, come in a couple times a week, on one of the religious channels...
I have seen about 6-8 episodes on this channel, and they really are just dreadful...there is so much evangelizing, and advertising their viewers opinions, and of course, the usual attempt to entice viewers to buy their tapes and DVDs, that there is almost no time at all left for any science, and what they claim is their 'scientific presentation', can and is refuted by 'true' scientists...
I admire the cast ironity of your stomach.
Because bananas would take over the world if humans had to eat them all themselves.
Venus Flytrap amd Sundew plants move.
So do slime molds. Slime molds are not plants and they are not animals.
Can they die?
What about an organism with flagella, that can and does move, but also chlorplasts?
[Whoop-de-doo! Stops those Darwinists every time!]
Holy rocks? Does it also have polonium wings?
I actually loathe that CreationNetwork and the rubbish they run...but I watch it, to try and see what kind of stuff they are promoting...what they are best at is promoting the sale of their tapes and DVDs...
What is really starting to bore me tho, is their testimonials...not because of the content of what they are saying, but because its the very same testimonials over and over and over and over...they never had any new ones...which makes me wonder if just the usual 5 or 6 positive testimonials is all that they have...and they are constantly asking for people to phone in their testimonials...so its a big old mystery, why they run the same stuff over and over and over again...it would seem to me, that having new testimonials would prove to the viewers, how valuable their programs are...its a puzzle..
There is also something else I have noticed over this time, and its also puzzled me...of the programs that I have watched, the majority of the presenters have an accent...Now, there is nothing wrong with an accent, I rather like foreign accents, but it leads me to question where these presenters are born, and where they got their educations...the minority of the speakers appear to be Americans...what does that mean, I wonder?...Does it mean that there are more foreign born and foreign educated scientists, as opposed to American born and American educated scientists who support creationism as opposed to evolution?...I am just curious about this, and wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this...
I know exactly what a polonium halo is. You obviously don't.
If it's so gosh darn silly why didn't you post any examples of beneficial mutations?
To make monkey moonshine.
Ummm, yeah, I know a whole bunch of people that would die to have sickle cell anemia. Aren't a bunch of scientists actually making designer babies specifically to have sickle cell anemia?
Wow, I am sure glad you admit how dumb you are. What an appropriate screen name.
"If it's so gosh darn silly why didn't you post any examples of beneficial mutations?"
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoMutations.html
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoHumBenMutations.html
BTW, just so you know, humans have on average about 4 mutations every generation.
You didn't google it like I suggested.
You wrote "There are no such examples of beneficial mutations." I posted two examples showing you are wrong.
You came back with a remark showing you don't understand the problem. Google it!
You apparently don't have a clue as to the significance of what I posted, or why these are "examples of beneficial mutations."
Years ago we were told that is another reason not to marry your own cousin, and then there would be the requisite joke about Arkansas or Appalacia. LOL
The closer the couple are on the family tree, the more danger their is in passing along a mutation, and that is detrimental as a rule.
Happy Independence Day everyone.
That would be a recessive allele, not a mutation. Nobody expects the Spanish Mutation.
Try this is you want to read about a beneficial mutation:
http://www.secs.iub.edu.bd/TechNews/ScienceTech/science/009.htm
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