They want a bed time story, and someone to turn the light on and off for them.
When will the democrats grow a fucking backbone and nominate a real candidate?
These two sentences contradict each other. The Dems nominated someone with a backbone, but America didn't want him. What the Democrats should do is nominate someone *without* a backbone, someone who will tell people a bedtime story, then they'd be set.
You are overstating the importance of the Y-chromosome "Adam" (and the mitochondrial "Eve"). Yes, our Y-chromosomes all come from one man and all our mitochondrial DNA comes from one woman... but so what? Indications are that these two people were separated by vast spans of time, and anyway: what about the rest of the genome?
Also, just because all our Y-chromosomes come from one man does NOT mean that was the only man around at the time. It just means that his lineage is the only one that survived until the present. Read this.
Evolution, on the other hand, is a belief that information (that's what DNA is - information) has the ability to become both more complex, and more orderly over a period of time.
No, it isn't. Evolution (the fact) is the observation that species change over time. Evolution (the theory) attempts to explain how it happens. "Complexity" and "order" don't come into it.
Not at least until the private sector comes up with a vehicle that is capable of what the shuttle accomplished.
Which was... what? Not live up to the plans for it?
The shuttle was a dog from day 1. Its payload wasn't big enough and there really weren't as many missions that required humans to be present as it was originally thought.
The Phantom's Revenge is actually one of the smoothest rides I've ever been on. The Steel Phantom, which it replaced was much more of a neck snapper.
Others are kind of exotic, like one that has tracks running in each direction that kind of cross over.
If you mean the Racer, yeah it's interesting. The trains run side-by-side on what is actually one long track. If you start in the train on the left, you end up on the right. I believe there is only one other coaster in the world with a similar feature.
Then there's . . . well, I forget the name, but it's a wooden coaster that delivered the roughest, most violent ride I've experienced. Ignoring a sign at the entrance, I sat to the left of a college friend who was bigger and heavier then me. The violent right turns repeatedly slammed Tobin against me. Real rib-crushing stuff.
That would be the Thunderbolt. Great ride. It's usually not too rough for a wooden coaster, but it can develop some "potholes" down at the bottom of the valley.
Buried dino bones could be explained by a large flood and the resulting sediment covering whatever used to breath air.
How did the large flood know to sort the bones so that, eg, we never find a Cretaceous dinosaur in the Cambrian layers?
Why can we find fossilized tracks in these layers that were under hundreds of feet of water?
Why can we find what are essentially fossilized wind-blown sand dunes mixed in the layers laid down by the flood?
Re:It's pretty amazing when you think about it.
on
Making Tracks on Mars
·
· Score: 1
Things like irreducible complexity in bacterial flagelli
Please demonstrate conclusively that bacterial flagelli are irreducibly complex and must have been created. Show your work and there might be a Nobel Prize for you.
Re:It's pretty amazing when you think about it.
on
Making Tracks on Mars
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
nd then there are the smaller details: look up and consider how the sun, and the the moon have the same relative size
Um. So? Millions of years ago they didn't have the same size, as the moon was closer to the Earth. Millions of years from now they won't be the same size, as the moon is steadily moving further away.
no tree has more than 5800 yearly tree rings (and there is no reason they can't - these old trees were cut down, still living, in this century).
You can extend it back a lot further if you look for more than one tree. You find a live tree going back, say, 4000 years. The you find an old stump whose later rings match up with the earlier rings of your tree. Then maybe you find a petrified log whose later rings match up with the early rings on the stump. We have tree ring data going back 10,000 years. Here's an example of a study going back 7400 years.
Also, we have ice cores and varves with annual layers going back tens of thousands of years.
And please don't disappoint me by quoting some rubbish from the ICR or answersingenesis.
The studies also showed that the results counlt be reproduce when redone.
Link plz.
also how long before pedophils and rapist turn that evidence into justification form thier actions. Could yo imagine a catholic priest saying "it wasn't my fault. god made me this way"
Pedophilia and rape harm other people. Homosexuality doesn't.
Don't sell yourself short. You were not born gay. It is not who you are but a choice you made along the way. I may as well say that I was born with a desire for Pearl Jam. It's learned. Studies have shown that there is some genetic basis for homosexuality. Studies have not yet been done on the genetic basis for Pearl Jam appreciation.
You can actually fall in love with and marry a person of the opposite sex.
Really? Could you fall in love and marry a person of the same sex? Seriously?
"The principle feminine criticism is that the woman is drawn incomplete -- that is, without any hint of external genitalia. The decision to omit a very short line in this diagram was made partly because conventional representation in Greek statuary omits it. But there was another reason: Our desire to see the message successfully launches on Pioneer 10. In retrospect, we may have judged NASA's scientific-political hierarchy as more puritanical than it is."
He then goes on to cite cases of newspapers who, uh, removed the man's naughty bits when they published the picture.
So, in short, the reason the "slit", as you so poetically called it, is missing is that we Americans are hung up about sex.
The word "Visby" is defined in The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as:
Visby (n) The pointy, tent-like structure in the bedclothes with which a man indicates to his partner that he thinks it's high time she stopped fiddling around in the bathroom cupboard and came to bed.
Slashdot Mirror
They want a bed time story, and someone to turn the light on and off for them.
When will the democrats grow a fucking backbone and nominate a real candidate?
These two sentences contradict each other. The Dems nominated someone with a backbone, but America didn't want him. What the Democrats should do is nominate someone *without* a backbone, someone who will tell people a bedtime story, then they'd be set.
My card was yellow. :)
A couple people had to leave, and I think they had to give back the card.
In other words, the Y-Chromosome ancestor was:
You are overstating the importance of the Y-chromosome "Adam" (and the mitochondrial "Eve"). Yes, our Y-chromosomes all come from one man and all our mitochondrial DNA comes from one woman... but so what? Indications are that these two people were separated by vast spans of time, and anyway: what about the rest of the genome?
Also, just because all our Y-chromosomes come from one man does NOT mean that was the only man around at the time. It just means that his lineage is the only one that survived until the present. Read this.
Evolution, on the other hand, is a belief that information (that's what DNA is - information) has the ability to become both more complex, and more orderly over a period of time.
No, it isn't. Evolution (the fact) is the observation that species change over time. Evolution (the theory) attempts to explain how it happens. "Complexity" and "order" don't come into it.
Not at least until the private sector comes up with a vehicle that is capable of what the shuttle accomplished.
Which was... what? Not live up to the plans for it?
The shuttle was a dog from day 1. Its payload wasn't big enough and there really weren't as many missions that required humans to be present as it was originally thought.
Both the Racer and the Jackrabbit date from the 1920s, I believe; they and the Thunderbolt are all classic, wooden, roller-coasters.
Actually, the Thunderbolt dates from the 20's too. It was originally the Pippin, but they redesigned it and changed the layout in 1968.
It has a modern necksnapper or two
The Phantom's Revenge is actually one of the smoothest rides I've ever been on. The Steel Phantom, which it replaced was much more of a neck snapper.
Others are kind of exotic, like one that has tracks running in each direction that kind of cross over.
If you mean the Racer, yeah it's interesting. The trains run side-by-side on what is actually one long track. If you start in the train on the left, you end up on the right. I believe there is only one other coaster in the world with a similar feature.
Then there's . . . well, I forget the name, but it's a wooden coaster that delivered the roughest, most violent ride I've experienced. Ignoring a sign at the entrance, I sat to the left of a college friend who was bigger and heavier then me. The violent right turns repeatedly slammed Tobin against me. Real rib-crushing stuff.
That would be the Thunderbolt. Great ride. It's usually not too rough for a wooden coaster, but it can develop some "potholes" down at the bottom of the valley.
Buried dino bones could be explained by a large flood and the resulting sediment covering whatever used to breath air.
How did the large flood know to sort the bones so that, eg, we never find a Cretaceous dinosaur in the Cambrian layers?
Why can we find fossilized tracks in these layers that were under hundreds of feet of water?
Why can we find what are essentially fossilized wind-blown sand dunes mixed in the layers laid down by the flood?
Things like irreducible complexity in bacterial flagelli
Please demonstrate conclusively that bacterial flagelli are irreducibly complex and must have been created. Show your work and there might be a Nobel Prize for you.
nd then there are the smaller details: look up and consider how the sun, and the the moon have the same relative size
Um. So? Millions of years ago they didn't have the same size, as the moon was closer to the Earth. Millions of years from now they won't be the same size, as the moon is steadily moving further away.
no tree has more than 5800 yearly tree rings (and there is no reason they can't - these old trees were cut down, still living, in this century).
You can extend it back a lot further if you look for more than one tree. You find a live tree going back, say, 4000 years. The you find an old stump whose later rings match up with the earlier rings of your tree. Then maybe you find a petrified log whose later rings match up with the early rings on the stump. We have tree ring data going back 10,000 years. Here's an example of a study going back 7400 years.
Also, we have ice cores and varves with annual layers going back tens of thousands of years.
And please don't disappoint me by quoting some rubbish from the ICR or answersingenesis.
The studies also showed that the results counlt be reproduce when redone.
Link plz.
also how long before pedophils and rapist turn that evidence into justification form thier actions. Could yo imagine a catholic priest saying "it wasn't my fault. god made me this way"
Pedophilia and rape harm other people. Homosexuality doesn't.
What? Polygamy is immoral?
I didn't say that.
Marrying minors is immoral? But why?
Because minors can't give informed consent.
What are you talking about? The parent poster has exactly the same rights as you or I; In particular, to marry somebody of the opposite sex.
No, gays do NOT have exactly the same rights as straights; in particular the right to marry the person they love.
Don't sell yourself short. You were not born gay. It is not who you are but a choice you made along the way. I may as well say that I was born with a desire for Pearl Jam. It's learned.
Studies have shown that there is some genetic basis for homosexuality. Studies have not yet been done on the genetic basis for Pearl Jam appreciation.
You can actually fall in love with and marry a person of the opposite sex.
Really? Could you fall in love and marry a person of the same sex? Seriously?
I know when I'm in the dark in the real world, I can't see the demons and stuff running around trying to eat me.
You have demons trying to eat you in the real world? Where do you live?
Quoting directly from the basic science textbook I used when I was 14.
You must have been 14 in the 18th century then.
but the rock in the middle has a spiral shell appearance
What? Please draw an arrow to it or something so the rest of us can see it.
Also note the circular items scattered through the image
Again: what?
Source? I'm guessing the actual additional death toll would have been 0.
Physical evidence proves it is not.
Please provide this evidence. There are thousands of geologists who would be interested.
Speak for yourself. To people with high-school math, lisp (and other functional languages) provide the most natural way of thinking.
:)
Nah. I have a really hard time getting my brain around functional programming. I just don't think that way. And I took a lot of math.
From "The Cosmic Connection" by Carl Sagan:
"The principle feminine criticism is that the woman is drawn incomplete -- that is, without any hint of external genitalia. The decision to omit a very short line in this diagram was made partly because conventional representation in Greek statuary omits it. But there was another reason: Our desire to see the message successfully launches on Pioneer 10. In retrospect, we may have judged NASA's scientific-political hierarchy as more puritanical than it is."
He then goes on to cite cases of newspapers who, uh, removed the man's naughty bits when they published the picture.
So, in short, the reason the "slit", as you so poetically called it, is missing is that we Americans are hung up about sex.
Now you know.
The word "Visby" is defined in The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as:
Visby (n) The pointy, tent-like structure in the bedclothes with which a man indicates to his partner that he thinks it's high time she stopped fiddling around in the bathroom cupboard and came to bed.
This is probably not what they intended.
I think one button is the simplest and
:)
most elegant way to design a mouse.
Maybe, but "simple and elegant" is not the same as "useful".
It is obvious that the cell is an irreducibly complex machine
Is it? Why?
which Darwin himself said could not be explained by evolution.
Source, please.
There's micro & macro evolution.
No, there isn't. There's only evolution. "Micro-" and "macro-" aren't really well-defined. Tell me, what do you think constitutes "macro-evolution"?
can never be proven true
For the Nth time: You don't prove theories in science. You can only disprove them. Keep repeating this until you understand.
Origin of life evolution is not true.
Evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life. That's abiogenesis. Evolution takes over once you actually have something that can evolve.