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Pittsburgh Professors Challenge Darwin

Posted by Zonk on from the friday's-right-for-fighting dept.

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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  1. Must... not... troll... must... debate... politely by Jim+in+Buffalo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shifting environmental conditions which are, of course, controlled by the Intelligent Designer, allowing Him... I'm sorry, uh, it to create all these diverse forms of life in just six thousand... oops, did it again, sorry, a few million years. (Seriously, though, did you read some of the comments posted on that page that TFA is on? Yikes!)

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  2. Damn Professors! by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is it with these Pittsburgh professors repudiating the open source core of Mac OS X? Darwin is a solid UNIX foundation for a great operating system; if these professors can't see that, they must not understand how intelligently designed it is!

    1. Re:Damn Professors! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Darwin is a solid UNIX foundation for a great operating system; if these professors can't see that, they must not understand how intelligently designed it is!

      Ironically, Darwin evolved, as does all code, through intelligent design.

    2. Re:Damn Professors! by Eccles · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ironically, Darwin evolved, as does all code, through intelligent design.

      Umm, not all code...

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  3. RTFA by LightningBolt! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their not repudiating Evolution! They're simply saying that it runs faster on "Schwartz and Maresca" than it does on Darwin. Although the article doesn't say it, I'm pretty sure "Schartz and Maresca" is a Linux distro, a.k.a. "S&M Linux".

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  4. Re:Pardon my ignorance but by Lifewish · · Score: 2, Funny

    imagine a differentiable manifold

    You aren't a mathematics student by any chance are you? I hope to god you are otherwise I shall lose all faith in the human race...

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  5. Pittsburgh Profesors Challenge Darwin by Mr.+Shotgun · · Score: 2, Funny

    SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
    Be at the Pennsylvania state fairgrounds!

    As the Deadly duo

    The Pittsburgh Professors
    challenge the
    Father of Modern Biology

    Charles Darwin
    to a handicap grudge match in the steel cage.

    It promises to be a match the world will never forget as high flying theories and hard core evidence are used to bash each others skulls in.
    The Violence! The Pain! The pure Savagery! This match is not for the faint of heart, only come if you want pure action.
    Ticket are on sale RIGHT NOW! So go get some, and we'll see you sunday!

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