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Butterfly Unlocks Evolution Secret
Anonymous Coward writes "The BBC has an article about a dramatic discovery in the quest for understanding evolution. From the article: 'Why one species branches into two is a question that has haunted evolutionary biologists since Darwin. Given our planet's rich biodiversity, "speciation" clearly happens regularly, but scientists cannot quite pinpoint the driving forces behind it. Now, researchers studying a family of butterflies think they have witnessed a subtle process, which could be forcing a wedge between newly formed species.'"
I have a "theory"... it's about this invisible man who lives in the sky. His name is "Jesus H. Christ". He's responsible for everything good in the world. He's everywhere all the time and you can talk to him anytime you want. He's very nice if you believe in him. If you believe in him, you get to live with him when you die. If you don't, then you're in bad shape. Oh yeah, and he hates gay people, and thinks they should all die. That's a funny theory, huh?
Expect really concentrated attacks on this research by the redneck^Wcreationist brigade. "But speciation has never been observed" has been the strongest rallying cry of evolution-deniers for more than a century...
I have two things for you to think about that may possibly allow you to understand why Hell exists. First of all the Bible makes it very clear why we were created, God got bored and wanted toys. He also realized that boring toys that do whatever they are told are boring and he wanted to be loved, think a wind up toy with a button that you push saying I love you every time. Now making toys that have a mind of their own has a consequence, they must be given choice, and this choice means they may make a poor choice (look at real life if you don't believe me). Now free choice is a very important thing and quite frankly our lives would suck without that freedom of choice. But it also has a lot of consequences like Hell. So my point is that God cares for us, but he wants to give us freedom of choice, and he can't have both. Now for another food of thought on another line, what if God is not in control apart from outside this universe. We are never told whether or not God has rules to abide by in his own little universe, but I think he may (though these rules are obviously much broader than ours). What if God has no direct control of his angels, which I believe he may not as look at the fall of Satan. And what if the rules of the game are that you can try and win souls, but you cant steal one anothers souls. Now the first argument is clearly true and can be backed up by numerous verses and also makes sense you can't have humans who choose to love you and then only give them the choice to love you. The second one is off the wall and I always wondered it myself but I have no reason to believe it other then a thought I came up with. Now back to the topic I also think that this article doesn't prove macro evolution, which never has been proven. Micro evolution has time and time again. Most creationist will agree that this butterfly "anomaly" when the butterfly becomes a bird or a new species now you have something. http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeScie nces.html
1. The Bible is fiction.
2. Get over it.
Maybe if you want a real explanation of a scientific theory, you should read a fucking textbook. /. isn't going to get you anywhere.
...priesthood-of-scientists dogma once again.
Scientists are people, not omniscient robots. "Believe" means exactly the same thing for a scientist and a paddy farmer.
Many of the things that scientists believe are demonstrably false. I know this to be correct from empirical experiment. Yes, even when they're speaking ex cathedra.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Racism is irrational, ignorant, stupid dislike of other races.
You should stop talking about what's irrational. Becuase, a rational, informed, and intellectual dislike of other races would like fall under racism to you.
The only reason you, and many others here are so beaten and scared to speak your mind about these issues is becuase the powers that be have invested years (re: end of WWII) to make sure a store owner respects the black mans dollar, all for the simple oppressive and arrogant view of the CEO to Coca Cola. Since you aren't that big, try this:
Accept a job to deal a large amount of drugs. At the end of the month, when you are short, tell him that you didn't want to sell to some people becuase they had funny shirts. See what happens. Capitalism you fool! The CEOs to major corporations don't care about your personal rights to make a choice [choice, the implied Devine Right, the very first thing given to Man in almost EVERY religion... choice], they want their money and they don't care if you have to put your head in the toilet to get it, wipe with silk, talk to a black man or recompose broken english from an immigrant. The only reason why corporations have influenced society to think racism is bad, is to maintain a consistant value for the dollar no matter who has it, or from what part of the country. It's even worse with globalization, now it's "racist" if you choose to boycott anything from France... (Talk about ignorant, that's nationalism. And, there's nothing wrong with that, I love my patriots, I'm a patriot.)
Bottom line, if I don't want to sit next to someone, I don't want to sit next to them. Sure, there's probably a reason, they might stink, they have a threatening tone to their voice and choice of words, they do not reflect my image, they are different in some way... so what? How many jocks are hanging out with the nerds playing Magick? Are they "racists", just becuase they choose to hang out with other sports savvy people? We must be racist, becuase we are computer geeks and we like computer'ish stuff and geeky stuff and like to chat with other geeky guys who might teach us something we are interested in.
Whatever... And, I purposely ignore the obligatory "I'm not racist" crap. Jump to conclusions if you wish, every person who has ever called another a racist is a hypocrite in every way, to include the very act of attempting to be agressive towards another group of people, for something far less tangible than skin color, but belief. Last time that was the social trend... I believe we refer to that as "The Crusades". How intelligent is that?
Personally I think it's great that some people belive in guff like "intelligent design". After all we'll always need people to clean toilets for a living (not that there's anything wrong with cleaning toilets for a living it's just that it would be a waste for an Einstein or a Darwin to be doing so)
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
I'm a physicist and I believe in God. I believe that God created the world with the evolution, etc so that there would be a man in this world. I require no proof for that and neither do I expect science to provide me with any. In fact, I'd look very suspiciously at anyone pretending to have such "proof". It's my religion, not my science.
Good thing you didn't describe yourself as a "scientist", because your philosophy of belief is not scientific. I dare say that describing yourself as a physicist is already pretty shameful.