And, according to the story, he built his rep on the extraction of DNA from an 80 million year old dinosaur fossil. Unfortunately the DNA turned out to be from a modern human.
They are actively fulfilling a Biblical prophecy ONLY by determining genealogical lineage AND then baptizing the dead. Simply baptizing them just makes them Mormon. In the minds of the LDS followers.
Only the genealogically backed baptism, fulfills the prophecy of The Second ComingTM. Kinda like those Texans and Israelis who are breeding red heifers in order to bring about the end of the world.
That's right! Both these groups are jerking off to the idea of Armageddon!
Like the rightwingers who want Obama to declare war on Russia to save Crimea from the hands of the no-longer Communists!
The whole point of that incestuous marriages thing that was prevalent among the pharaohs was to keep the holy royal ancestry from spreading out of the family. Keep the family tree pruned to one branch, as it were. So he'd be much less likely to have a jillion modern descendants than the average Egyptian of his period.
Because the American public will always choose the worse technological alternative. VHS over Beta NTSC color tv 18 khz subcarrier FM stereo 44 khz CD over SACD Intel 8086 over Motorola IBM PC over Mac Windows over OS/2 Chevy over Ford etc.
Well there are very few great truths which can be transmitted by language, fewer that can be communicated by non - great writers, fewer still that can be transmitted in a few words, and basically zero of those that nobody's come up e with at this point in history. That leaves an unknown number that your mind stumbles upon when you're knocked out of your normal linguistic thought patterns, but can't manage to drag back when it returns.
Well the definition of divergent species is they can't breed with each other, although there's often a stretch; like species that don't interbreed because they live on opposite sides of a river, or even dogs and wolves, that generally don't interbreed because they just don't. However the fact that species diverging takes time is a factor. I was having the usual discussion with a particularly intelligent creationist, and he asked the usual "where are the intermediate steps in evolution? " And I replied with the usual "well the fossil record is incomplete, but look at horses, where we do have a good fossil record of the steps from eohippus to now", but he had a good counter: "what makes you call all those steps different species, rather than one species evolving over time but still remaining one species? " And I didn't have a good counterexample. So, unless we have a fossil record of two species diverging from a single one with ask the intermediate steps, resulting in two existing separate species, we don't really have solid QED evidence. And that's a lot to ask of fossils.
Absolutely. As pointed out to me once, the fact that most people remain in the religion into which they were born is good evidence that none of them confer any tangible advantage in life.
The history of religion from this angle is the cumulative humbling of the male European Christian, particularly those with property and/or power, from being the Crown of Creation, literally the center of the universe, to being a subgroup of a species of souped up ape on an externally unremarkable planet revolving around an undistinguished star in a distant backwater of a vast galaxy among innumerable others in a literally unimaginable universe, the function and purpose of which will never be known to us. You can see why lots of people might fight this idea.
And the big lie is that fundamentalism is some sort of return to that good old time religion which we have fallen away from, rather than a new fangled mass market attempt to dumb down religion and reduce it to a cookbook so that people who think of themselves as Good don't have to put much time and energy into it, and they get a guaranteed return on investment.
Evolution; is it something you were born with, or is or is it a choice you make? Should evolved people be allowed to marry or should they just be allowed civil unions? What about all the studies which show that children need two created parents?
Whenever I hear of a data spill, I recall that twice in the Before Digital era I, just an average nobody, stumbled on to great big piles of paper medical records just piled on the corner waiting for the garbage truck, not even in a sealed plastic bag, from two completely unrelated institutions.
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This puts every mother who took a shapshot of her 2 year old in the bathtub in prison.
Aren't the Copts supposed to be the closest descendants of the ancient Egyptians?
That's just the beta of the rollback of the beta. It still has a few bugs in it. (The rollback).
And, according to the story, he built his rep on the extraction of DNA from an 80 million year old dinosaur fossil. Unfortunately the DNA turned out to be from a modern human.
Well duh, didn't you ever watch "Barney"?
They are actively fulfilling a Biblical prophecy ONLY by determining genealogical lineage AND then baptizing the dead.
Simply baptizing them just makes them Mormon. In the minds of the LDS followers.
Only the genealogically backed baptism, fulfills the prophecy of The Second ComingTM.
Kinda like those Texans and Israelis who are breeding red heifers in order to bring about the end of the world.
That's right! Both these groups are jerking off to the idea of Armageddon!
Like the rightwingers who want Obama to declare war on Russia to save Crimea from the hands of the no-longer Communists!
Being that BYU stands for Brigham Young University which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
D'oh! All these years I've been thinking it was BYO University!
Yes, what does the cradle of the American Revolution know about true Americanism?
That's why I come to Slashdot. I didn't know that stuff and it clears up a lot of my unanswered questions. At last I can sleep nights.
Um tut sut (OK we've had two oblique references, let's see if anybody can grasp this one)
The whole point of that incestuous marriages thing that was prevalent among the pharaohs was to keep the holy royal ancestry from spreading out of the family. Keep the family tree pruned to one branch, as it were. So he'd be much less likely to have a jillion modern descendants than the average Egyptian of his period.
Because the American public will always choose the worse technological alternative.
VHS over Beta
NTSC color tv
18 khz subcarrier FM stereo
44 khz CD over SACD
Intel 8086 over Motorola
IBM PC over Mac
Windows over OS/2
Chevy over Ford
etc.
Have you tried smoking Timothy?
And there's always the agony of acid reflux. (Suggested by my android keyboard)
Not of I'm inside a Sherman tank.
And you couldn't find this truth until after 250 acid trips?
He won't be able to tell us until he comes out of his comma.
Well there are very few great truths which can be transmitted by language, fewer that can be communicated by non - great writers, fewer still that can be transmitted in a few words, and basically zero of those that nobody's come up e with at this point in history. That leaves an unknown number that your mind stumbles upon when you're knocked out of your normal linguistic thought patterns, but can't manage to drag back when it returns.
Well the definition of divergent species is they can't breed with each other, although there's often a stretch; like species that don't interbreed because they live on opposite sides of a river, or even dogs and wolves, that generally don't interbreed because they just don't.
However the fact that species diverging takes time is a factor. I was having the usual discussion with a particularly intelligent creationist, and he asked the usual "where are the intermediate steps in evolution? " And I replied with the usual "well the fossil record is incomplete, but look at horses, where we do have a good fossil record of the steps from eohippus to now", but he had a good counter: "what makes you call all those steps different species, rather than one species evolving over time but still remaining one species? " And I didn't have a good counterexample.
So, unless we have a fossil record of two species diverging from a single one with ask the intermediate steps, resulting in two existing separate species, we don't really have solid QED evidence. And that's a lot to ask of fossils.
Absolutely. As pointed out to me once, the fact that most people remain in the religion into which they were born is good evidence that none of them confer any tangible advantage in life.
The history of religion from this angle is the cumulative humbling of the male European Christian, particularly those with property and/or power, from being the Crown of Creation, literally the center of the universe, to being a subgroup of a species of souped up ape on an externally unremarkable planet revolving around an undistinguished star in a distant backwater of a vast galaxy among innumerable others in a literally unimaginable universe, the function and purpose of which will never be known to us.
You can see why lots of people might fight this idea.
And the big lie is that fundamentalism is some sort of return to that good old time religion which we have fallen away from, rather than a new fangled mass market attempt to dumb down religion and reduce it to a cookbook so that people who think of themselves as Good don't have to put much time and energy into it, and they get a guaranteed return on investment.
Evolution; is it something you were born with, or is or is it a choice you make?
Should evolved people be allowed to marry or should they just be allowed civil unions? What about all the studies which show that children need two created parents?
That's a hackneyed belief.
Whenever I hear of a data spill, I recall that twice in the Before Digital era I, just an average nobody, stumbled on to great big piles of paper medical records just piled on the corner waiting for the garbage truck, not even in a sealed plastic bag, from two completely unrelated institutions.
to think that Thoreau believed a trout in the milk would be notable.