To: Marie2
Passing off 30 year old information as current fact borders on the dishonest - especially when a 5 minute search would show that you got them wrong.
It would be the same as if I tried to pass off 150 year old Biblical interpretations as correct.
73 posted on
04/16/2009 6:40:46 PM PDT by
DevNet
(What's past is prologue)
To: DevNet
“Passing off 30 year old information as current fact borders on the dishonest - especially when a 5 minute search would show that you got them wrong.”
I was taught evolutionary theory all through my childhood. Mentioning a couple of examples from my junior high and high school classes is not dishonest.
“It would be the same as if I tried to pass off 150 year old Biblical interpretations as correct.”
There would be nothing dishonest about that. Basic Christian doctrine has not changed.
89 posted on
04/17/2009 12:10:43 AM PDT by
Marie2
(The capacity for self-government is a moral quality. Only a moral people can be free.)
To: DevNet
Here I am apologizing for the fact that scientists figured out all about bumblebee flight without telling me, and I become curious. I start searching around to see the explanation and lo and behold: "Finally, Dickinson discovered that wake capturethe collision of the wing with the swirling wake of the previous wing strokeassists in the flight of insects. Each stroke of the wing leaves behind a complex of vortices. When the wing reverses direction, it passes back through this churning air. A wake contains energy lost from the insect to the air, so wake capture provides a way for the insect to recover energy. Scientists still do not know every intricacy involved in the flight of bumblebees and other insects. REFERENCES Dickinson, Michael (2001), Solving the Mystery of Insect Flight, [On-line], URL: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000EE5B1-DCA8-1C6F-84A9809EC588EF21. Macphee, Kona (2001) The Buzz on Bumblebees, [On-line], URL: http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue17/news/bumble. Peterson, Ivars (1997), Flight of the Bumblebee, [On-line], URL: http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_3_31.html. Segelken, Roger (2000), Bumblebees Finally Cleared for Takeoff, [On-line], URL: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March00/APS_Wang.hrs.html.
91 posted on
04/17/2009 12:17:37 AM PDT by
Marie2
(The capacity for self-government is a moral quality. Only a moral people can be free.)
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