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Introduction Evolution: probably no other scientific theory has generated so much public controversy since Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the sun, not the earth, is the center of our solar system. This is most apparent in the realm of public education where “scientific creationists” repeatedly attempt to either remove evolution from, or add “scientific creation” to, science curricula (Zetterberg, 1983, p. 386-401; Belluck, 1999; Brown, 2000). The controversy was brought to the forefront most recently in Kansas during August, 1999, when the Kansas Board of Education voted to remove much of evolution from the state’s new science curriculum (Belluck, 1999; ...

Introduction Evolution: probably no other scientific theory has generated so much public controversy since Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the sun, not the earth, is the center of our solar system. This is most apparent in the realm of public education where “scientific creationists” repeatedly attempt to either remove evolution from, or add “scientific creation” to, science curricula (Zetterberg, 1983, p. 386-401; Belluck, 1999; Brown, 2000). The controversy was brought to the forefront most recently in Kansas during August, 1999, when the Kansas Board of Education voted to remove much of evolution from the state’s new science curriculum (Belluck, 1999; ...

Introduction Evolution: probably no other scientific theory has generated so much public controversy since Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the sun, not the earth, is the center of our solar system. This is most apparent in the realm of public education where “scientific creationists” repeatedly attempt to either remove evolution from, or add “scientific creation” to, science curricula (Zetterberg, 1983, p. 386-401; Belluck, 1999; Brown, 2000). The controversy was brought to the forefront most recently in Kansas during August, 1999, when the Kansas Board of Education voted to remove much of evolution from the state’s new science curriculum (Belluck, 1999; ...

Introduction Evolution: probably no other scientific theory has generated so much public controversy since Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the sun, not the earth, is the center of our solar system. This is most apparent in the realm of public education where “scientific creationists” repeatedly attempt to either remove evolution from, or add “scientific creation” to, science curricula (Zetterberg, 1983, p. 386-401; Belluck, 1999; Brown, 2000). The controversy was brought to the forefront most recently in Kansas during August, 1999, when the Kansas Board of Education voted to remove much of evolution from the state’s new science curriculum (Belluck, 1999; ...

Introduction Evolution: probably no other scientific theory has generated so much public controversy since Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the sun, not the earth, is the center of our solar system. This is most apparent in the realm of public education where “scientific creationists” repeatedly attempt to either remove evolution from, or add “scientific creation” to, science curricula (Zetterberg, 1983, p. 386-401; Belluck, 1999; Brown, 2000). The controversy was brought to the forefront most recently in Kansas during August, 1999, when the Kansas Board of Education voted to remove much of evolution from the state’s new science curriculum (Belluck, 1999; ...

Prediction 17: Functional molecular evidence - Protein functional redundancy Before the advent of DNA sequencing technology, the amino acid sequences of proteins were used to establish the phylogenetic relationships of species. Sequence studies with functional genes have centered on genes of proteins (or RNAs) that are ubiquitous (i.e. all organisms have them). This is done to insure that the comparisons are independent of the overall species phenotype. For example, suppose we are comparing the protein sequence of a chimpanzee and that of a human. Both of these animals have many similar anatomical characters and functions, so we might expect their ...

TalkOrigins has decided to move the 29 Evidences page into a PDF file. I'll repeat the link: 29 Evidences for MacroEvolution. If you're following along, we should be discussing items 15 and 16, Suboptimal Function, Anatomical and Molecular, respectively. If you can figure out how to paste from their .pdf file, you beat me. I'm giving up.

Previous thread. Full original article. Prediction 11: Anatomical paralogy One major consequence of evolutionary opportunism is the predicted existence of paralogy. Paralogy, as I use the term here, is similarity of structure despite difference in function. When one species branches into two species, one or both of the species may acquire new functions. Since the new species must recruit and modify preexisting structures to perform these new functions, the same structure shared by these two species will now perform a different function in each of the two species. This is paralogy. It follows that paralogous structures have a history that ...

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France has no seaworthy aircraft carriers PARIS, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The French news media continued to denounce Saturday what it is calling a national embarrassment that -- for the first time since 1945 -- France has no aircraft carrier. As the French daily Le Parisien put it, France actually has two aircraft carriers, but neither is seaworthy. There is the newly-built $2.6 billion plus nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle, now in dry dock in Toulon after one of her propellers shattered on her first, long test voyage. The other carrier is the obsolete French vessel, Foch -- now in dry ...

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio –– A man lived in a 15-year-old girl's bedroom closet for three weeks before her mother found out and had him arrested, a prosecutor said. Jeffrey Scott Martin, 26, was arrested and charged with corrupting a minor through sexual contact and illegally using a minor in nudity-oriented material. He faces 9½ years in prison. The girl's mother discovered Martin when she opened the closet to put away some sweaters and found blankets, a pillow and dishes, prosecutor John Baker said Thursday. Her daughter then admitted that Martin had been living there since Nov. 17, he said. Several ...

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THE first evidence of a safe and effective cure for rheumatoid arthritis, the crippling disease that affects more than 750,000 people in the United Kingdom, is to be unveiled tomorrow by British scientists. Until now doctors have been able to offer only limited pain relief. Now a team of researchers at University College, London, has identified drugs that produce significant improvements in patients. In results to be announced at an international scientific conference tomorrow, the team will show that patients see a dramatic improvement after a single treatment, with some apparently cured of the disease completely. The success with patients ...

SUNDAY's official State dinner at the White House was nominally held to honor Indian Prime Minister Atai Bihari Vajpayee, but Hillary seized the opportunity to reward donors, curry favor with New York political reporters and stroke Empire State politicians. Brazen in her use of the dinner to reward her friends, the first lady turned the official reception for the leader of the world's largest democracy into a dinner for her campaign. Even a cursory examination of the guest list reveals the following links between her campaign and those who were wined, dined and feted: Big Donors: Take Their Money and ...

On guard ... cops stand by as one of five tankers moves out of Purfleet refinery TONY Blair last night confronted refinery pickets head-on as police stepped in to let the petrol tankers roll. The defiant PM took the giant gamble after angry talks with the oil moguls he blames for cashing in on the fuel crisis. And he told millions of drivers the drought at the forecourts is OVER. Mr Blair acted as Britain shuddered to a standstill - with more than half the country's 13,000 filling stations shut down by the crippling anti-fuel tax protest. Fights broke ...

Stories of modern science...From UPI NEW TYPE OF BLACK HOLE FOUND Using the X-ray telescope 'Chandra,' scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered a new type of black hole. Only two varieties had previously been known -- those that are similar in mass to stars, and much larger ones that can be a million or billion times more massive. Scanning the galaxy called M82, Martin Ward, a professor of astronomy at the University of Leicester and his colleagues found two stars orbiting around one another. The X-ray emissions produced by the system suggest they are revolving around a black ...

The Prime Minister predicted last night that Britain's worst civil crisis since the late Seventies would be eased within 24 hours after claiming to have won assurances from oil bosses of an imminent resumption of fuel deliveries. Tony Blair said the situation that had brought large parts of Britain to a standstill would be "on the way back to normal" by this evening. He admitted a full return to normal conditions would take longer. But last night, with around 90 per cent of Britain's petrol stations out of unleaded fuel, there was a large amount of confusion with some oil ...

Protests halt fuel deliveries; Thousands of petrol stations closed; Queen in crisis talks 12 September 2000 Panic buying, a very non-British militancy and the most widespread public protests since the poll-tax riots left large swaths of the country facing an unprecedented fuel drought last night. The Queen chaired a meeting of the Privy Council at Balmoral, which approved the use of emergency powers to require the oil companies to ensure even distribution across the country and maintain fuel supplies to the emergency services and schools. Helen Liddell and Richard Caborn, who are both Trade and Industry ministers, were present at ...

HUNDREDS of petrol stations will start drying up today after a protest outside one of Britain's biggest refineries forced oil company executives to abandon fuel deliveries yesterday. Hauliers and farmers angered by fuel price rises issued a warning last night that they will intensify their demonstrations, which also brought chaos to the A1 in the North as lorry drivers blocked all lanes. A string of further protests is planned for the next few days at other oil refineries, ports and on main roads, culminating in a national day of action on September 22. Shell reported that filling stations in ...

Updated 12:40 PM ET September 8, 2000 LONDON (Reuters) - Something catastrophic occurred on Earth 1,500 years ago that may have led to the Dark Ages and coincided with the end of the Roman Empire and the death of King Arthur, a Northern Ireland scientist said Friday. It could have been a bombardment of cometary debris or the eruption of a super volcano. But whatever it was, it is clearly etched in the chronology of tree rings from around the world, according to Professor Mike Baillie, of Queen's University in Belfast. The global environmental event that occurred around 540 ...