Micro-evolution and macro-evolution are two things pretty much dreamed up by creationists to overcome their own cognitive dissonance and idiotic misconceptions about evolution.
Ad hom.
On the one hand, they insist that no one has observed evolution. When someone points out that we have, they need to have a retort ready. So they said, "Well that's just micro-evolution! I want to see a fish change into a deer overnight!"
Straw man. No creationist claims that a creature must evolve overnight.
Found on the internet.
The terms macroevolution and microevolution were first coined in 1927 by the Russian entomologist Iurii Filipchenko (or Philipchenko, depending on the transliteration), in his German-language work Variabilität und Variation, which was the first attempt to reconcile Mendelian genetics and evolution. Filipchenko was an evolutionist, but as he wrote during the period when Mendelism seemed to have made Darwinism redundant, the so-called "eclipse of Darwinism" (Bowler 1983), he was not a Darwinian, but an orthogeneticist.
Yes, because (despite the opinion of most of Slashdot) most Christians are perfectly reasonable and logical people. Also, there is nothing in microevolution that conflicts biblical belief.
It's with the growing proportion of the population who takes their faith to the next step and decides that faith is not just good for them, but good for everyone and should be mandated. Then we get intelligent design in science classes, laws against gay marriage, laws against assisted suicide, the Terry Schiavo debacle, and numerous other effects that *do* cause problems for quite a number of people -- and that's just in the US.
Slippery slope.
Worldwide, we have protestants killing catholics, muslims killing christians, jews and muslims killing each other indiscriminantly...you get the idea.
Red herring.
Richard Dawkins claims that the biggest problem with religious faith is that it rewards the suspension of critical thought.
Critical of what? Obviously, theologians are critical of many things. It's just that they base their criticism on a religious text rather than philosophical revelation, if you will.
Because some people, convinced that prayer will cure them, will decline medical treatment.
So let's outlaw prayer to protect the stupid religiosos, right? Whether one decides to forgo medical treatment entirely is totally separate from one's religious attitude. Plenty of atheists refuse medical treatment because they don't want to face months of suffering in a terminal illness-- no prayer involved.
No, the study claimed that prayer and MIT had "no effect on the primary endpoint." I take that to mean that there was no difference in the final outcome, whether it be death or recovery. Curiously, the subjects administered MIT and prayer did live longer.
But when it proves that the earth is round, that the universe is 13-15 billion years old and that prayer doesn't really do anything, they think its hogwash.
Please-- that is the lamest straw-man I've ever seen set up on Slashdot. This week.
Basically, I'm unimpressed with the Red Team. They stacked the competition in their favor by setting up systems so misconfigured they could not be secured in the three hours alotted, and broke into the room to install rootkits knowing the "victims" could not possibly physically secure their computers in this location. One must always assume that access to the console equals access to the entire system-- so this line of attack did nothing but pump up the egos of the Red team and teach the other teams nothing. If the other teams had been allowed to install motion sensors, cameras, trip wires, steel doors, keycards, etc., this would have been a fair attack.
I looked it up and apparently, Adobe applications use curiously evil activation. Somehow this causes them to periodically require reactivation. Adobe's "workaround" is, naturally, not to use RAID. I have a feeling Adobe employees are the ones without a clue here.
Mixing breeds of the same species and getting better meat or milk is not an example of evolution any more than breeding two Olympic gold medalists of different races to spawn a super athlete. I don't see why a creationist would debate that. About the only people who would have a problem with your Angus-Charolais mix would be the CKK (Cow Klux Klan).
Britain reneged on their earlier commitment to Israel-- when they had already reserved the lion's share of the land to Arab peoples in what is now known as Jordan-- and diced up what was left into a nearly indefensible "gerrymander" of plots. All fine and good, until Israel was immediately attacked for daring to declare their independence.
It has been established by judicial precedent that one doesn't own the airspace above one's land. I wouldn't defend you for shooting at news choppers and commercial aircraft, either.
Reuse (as the ricers... er tuners do) is much more efficient that recycling, but Japan is run by bean counters, PHBs, and bureaucrats so that's unlikely to matter to them.
Why is it here? Other than to validate the "I HATE WALMART" and "WALMART SELLS CRAP" memes on Slashdot? Is there anything remotely "for nerds" in this article? And does it "mattter" much to anyone other than Snapper and Wal-Mart?
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The terms macroevolution and microevolution were first coined in 1927 by the Russian entomologist Iurii Filipchenko (or Philipchenko, depending on the transliteration), in his German-language work Variabilität und Variation, which was the first attempt to reconcile Mendelian genetics and evolution. Filipchenko was an evolutionist, but as he wrote during the period when Mendelism seemed to have made Darwinism redundant, the so-called "eclipse of Darwinism" (Bowler 1983), he was not a Darwinian, but an orthogeneticist.
Yes, because (despite the opinion of most of Slashdot) most Christians are perfectly reasonable and logical people. Also, there is nothing in microevolution that conflicts biblical belief.
No, the study claimed that prayer and MIT had "no effect on the primary endpoint." I take that to mean that there was no difference in the final outcome, whether it be death or recovery. Curiously, the subjects administered MIT and prayer did live longer.
Basically, I'm unimpressed with the Red Team. They stacked the competition in their favor by setting up systems so misconfigured they could not be secured in the three hours alotted, and broke into the room to install rootkits knowing the "victims" could not possibly physically secure their computers in this location. One must always assume that access to the console equals access to the entire system-- so this line of attack did nothing but pump up the egos of the Red team and teach the other teams nothing. If the other teams had been allowed to install motion sensors, cameras, trip wires, steel doors, keycards, etc., this would have been a fair attack.
1. Obtain an OpenVMS Alpha system.
2. Read the docs.
3. Install the patches.
4. Let 'em try their damnedest to break in.
5. TEH WIN!!!!!1111
I looked it up and apparently, Adobe applications use curiously evil activation. Somehow this causes them to periodically require reactivation. Adobe's "workaround" is, naturally, not to use RAID. I have a feeling Adobe employees are the ones without a clue here.
Needs more "Hello Kitty."
Mixing breeds of the same species and getting better meat or milk is not an example of evolution any more than breeding two Olympic gold medalists of different races to spawn a super athlete. I don't see why a creationist would debate that. About the only people who would have a problem with your Angus-Charolais mix would be the CKK (Cow Klux Klan).
Neither does Iraq and Lebanon, as they were created in much the same way by western European nations.
That's true.
AC trolls are the only true source of perpetual stupidity.
Britain reneged on their earlier commitment to Israel-- when they had already reserved the lion's share of the land to Arab peoples in what is now known as Jordan-- and diced up what was left into a nearly indefensible "gerrymander" of plots. All fine and good, until Israel was immediately attacked for daring to declare their independence.
It has been established by judicial precedent that one doesn't own the airspace above one's land. I wouldn't defend you for shooting at news choppers and commercial aircraft, either.
A sub-Mach craft isn't going to be blitzing anything. And I invoke Godwin's law on your subtle Nazi reference.
So you think the President caused the 9/11 attacks? Who are you, Ted Kennedy?
Reuse (as the ricers... er tuners do) is much more efficient that recycling, but Japan is run by bean counters, PHBs, and bureaucrats so that's unlikely to matter to them.
I doubt there is the same amount of ink in the cartridges included with the printer.
Clearly, all Chinese are not communists but the government-imposed censorship makes it difficult to reckon otherwise.
Err... it's voila.
Why is it here? Other than to validate the "I HATE WALMART" and "WALMART SELLS CRAP" memes on Slashdot? Is there anything remotely "for nerds" in this article? And does it "mattter" much to anyone other than Snapper and Wal-Mart?