Posted on 07/03/2006 10:05:56 AM PDT by doc30
We humans customarily assume that our visual system sits atop a pinnacle of evolutionary success. It enables us to appreciate space in three dimensions, to detect objects from a distance and to move about safely. We are exquisitely able to recognize other individuals and to read their emotions from mere glimpses of their faces. In fact, we are such visual animals that we have difficulty imagining the sensory worlds of creatures whose capacities extend to other realms--a night-hunting bat, for example, that finds small insects by listening to the echoes of its own high-pitched call. Our knowledge of color vision is, quite naturally, based primarily on what humans see: researchers can easily perform experiments on cooperative human subjects to discover, say, what mixtures of colors look the same or different. Although scientists have obtained supporting information from a variety of other species by recording the firing of neurons, we remained unaware until the early 1970s that many vertebrates, mostly animals other than mammals, see colors in a part of the spectrum that is invisible to humans: the near ultraviolet. ...
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I think UV would appear as a new primary color. To describe it to the rest of us would be like trying to describe the difference between red and green to a person with red/green color blindness. It's all the same color to them. If it did appear as a new primary color, we would no longer have a color wheel, but a color tetrahedron with the primaries at each corner, the blending of two colors would form the edges and the blending of three colors would forn the faces.
It was not funny. It was insipid. Typical wordy Trudeau. I stopped reading his cartoons before I was 20 years old. His works are never funny, and they are idiotic.
Liberals love him for the exact reasons that that I stopped looking at that crap so long ago.
Yeah. I think that would work.
Sort of like Entropy, which is what your sentence reminds me of.
It was funny, you are just a tightass. It was dead on, and you can't handle it. I'm looking at the cartoon, not the author.
How long have fungi been classified as Eukaryote organisms?
Taxonomy is an ongoing process.
Honestly. it was not funny.
I like good humor. If I saw humor in it, I'd say so.
Remarkable!
Honestly, you are a tight ass, If I saw any humor in you, I'd say so.
"Unfortunately, for some, to be conservative, you must be a white christian who believes in creationism, and never ever veers from that."
Yes, it is a work of genius how they take a book of the history of the Jew's struggles, give Jesus a white boy look, and tell the people (that the book is written about to begin with) that they are going to hell if they do not adapt the Christian way. The Mayan's loved being the Christian's slaves. The Crusaders went out to save the world. Yeah boy, it is just a history of love and joy.
What do primary colors look like? Serious question. I'm I guy, I "know" five colors. Not three...
More seriously, I see Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Brown and Purple as distinct colors. I know intellectually that there are two sets of three primary colors (red green blue, and yellow, magenta, cyan) but in my personal 'perception space' I have the seven listed.
Yes, Newtons words do speak for themselves and they did not require that man reject creation to pursue science.
So your post was irrelevant.
But you knew that.
Poor guy. Still doesn't know the difference between an observed gene duplication and an assumed one. That's the problem w/ these guys. Their imagination is transferred into reality in their minds and they think that everyone else has to accept it.
Ah yes, redefinition. That always helps to deceive.
Evidence is facts. Interpretation is speculation.
To equivocate speculation w/ 'evidence' is to deceive.
The basis of evolution.
We do not see legs 'evolving' today. Why should that process have stopped? No reason.
You do not understand that imposing a 'leg evolution' sequence on a jumbled mess of geology is not science.
It seems GourmetDan believes science can only be done with direct observation using our 5 senses. GourmetDan. virtually everything in science is the result of indirect measurements through various techniques and instruments. I suppose you believe that the speedometer on you car or a cop's radar gun is an inferred measurement based on assumptions. I'd love to see the expression on a cop's face after he pulls you over for speeding and you tell him he's wrong because his measurements are assumptions and inferred facts!
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