Pittsburgh Professors Challenge Darwin

Syberghost writes "Darwin's Theory of Evolution comes under an interesting attack from an American anthropologist and an Italian biochemist, according to an article from University of Pittsburgh's school newspaper. In a nutshell, Schwartz and Maresca argue that change is not gradual as Darwin stated, but comes rapidly in response to drastic mutations caused by shifting environmental conditions."

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Here come the illiterate religious nuts

[Anonymous Coward]

Sadly, despite the fact that the guy article isn't really challenging evolution, or even actually providing any genuinely new insights, you can bet that the illiterate religious nuts are going to be all over this as further "proof" of Creationism. (sorry, they're calling it Intelligent Design now, aren't they?) After all, if the "scientists" can't make up their minds, clearly they must all be wrong.

Some times I think the only real cure for the kind of idiocy involved is global thermonuclear urban renewal.

Re:Here come the illiterate religious nuts

[Mahou]

you know, the first time i even heard of intelligent design was on slashdot. the only time i ever see a post about intelligent design is from people like you who know doubt ran off to teach yourself every little thing about intelligent design as soon as you heard about it. everytime there's a long pointless thread about science vs. intelligent design it's always started by people like you. just shut the fuck up. go make these kinds of posts on intelligent design message boards or something. WE ALREADY GET IT. and for the 10 people on slashdot that do believe in intelligent design, so what? they never say anything about it and if they ever did just mod them down and ignore them. you know why this shit hasn't died down? because of idiots like you that keep bringing it up. either go kill some intelligent design proponents or shut the fuck up and ignore them like a normal person; stop obsessing over them. "oh but if we ignore them they'll gain strength and everyone will be forced to learn ID!" yeh right. you know that isn't true and if it somehow ever did happen you would be completely justified in starting a bloody revolution. so even if you don't want to ignore them, ignore them in the hopes of being able to wage a war on them later. geez

Re:-1, deceptive headline

[Anonymous Coward]

Are there any good alternatives to slashdot?

What part of Slashdot is worth keeping? The old news? The dupes? The ugly interface? The karma whoring? The pseudo-insightful 14-year-olds spouting unintelligible bullshit? The 30-year-old stabbing at Microsoft from the their parent's basement? The broken user interaction model? The slavish devotion to a socialist world order?

Frankly, the only thing I like about Slashdot is the way you nerds have 'Lord of the Flies'ed yourselves into a pecking order like any other social group, and it's only amusing because so many of you pretend to be above that shit.

That, and I like AC trolling you dicks into flamewars.

Of course...

[DesScorp]

...these two are obviously pawns of Pat Robertson. No real scientist would make these claims. Stupid religious idiots...