For all we know, we may find life on Mars that has evolved to subsist in such a hostile environment using some completely novel feature or novel energy conversion process we can take advantage of or that excretes some waste product that we might find very useful that no life on Earth excretes. The point is we won't ever know until we know. Knowledge is great for its own sake, yes, but knowledge certainly isn't useful until you possess it.
I don't know about that particular fog machine he's using, but many DJ/Band fog or haze machines these days use water-based fluids rather than oil-based. Oil-based fog/haze juice has a higher likelyhood of setting off fire alarm due to the hydrocarbons in the aerosol, but the haze from an oil-based fluid hangs in the air longer. Also, the oil-based juice leaves more of a residue. Fog machines put out a big puff of smoke that is gone in 2 minutes or less while haze machines make a finer mist that hangs longer and makes your aerial light effects visible.
This guy should have used a hazer rather than a fog machine unless he wants his room to look like 5 AM on a winter day next to the bayou.
Which one of us is more "ordered" and why? Also, if one of is a mutation of the first, is the other one less orderly? If so, is the opposite also true?
No. We need more agnostics. Atheism is the anti-religion religion.
Only for non-nonsensical definitions of religion. No one worships at the altar of atheism and if you think that, then you might want to look up the word again.
They are all too often more fanatical and crazy.
If by fanatical and crazy you mean that they don't just give religion a free pass and respect anymore like atheists were forced to when the alternative was death. Because yeah, a passioned anti-religious posting is EXACTLY like witch burning, crucifiction, and letting your kid die of easily preventable diseases because of your religious belief.
A least with religious zealots, you know where you stand. With Atheists, they quietly scheme and lie, all too often to themselves.
Amazing, now you're a fucking mind reader. Holy shit, projecting much?
Atheism is even completely incompatible with science. After all, these crazies believe they have in absolutely terms disproven a negative.
Way to mischaracterize a position. What you really mean is these crazies have failed to see any evidence for the positive claim of a god and so reject that particular hypothesis. Just a hair different from disproving a negative, no?
But no worries, you just keep telling yourself that all those atheists are crazy loons JUST LIKE religious fanatics. Sounds like they aren't the ones scheming and lying to themselves....
The scientific method demands reproducible test results, not that you accurately and completely recreate and simulate the entirety of a single theory. Please understand the scientific method before you start invoking it.
Or, instead of teaching about a religiously-fueled political debate that has no merit as far as scientists who study this subject matter are concerned, they could concentrate on teaching science. Because that's what you do in science class.
Producing a new and novel genetic code is more like creating a new kernel but using the same basic building blocks (variables, while loops, for statements) that were used to create Linux.
The obvious loud-roaring mouse in the room says that no supernatural intervention was required, only natural processes. Intelligence assembled THESE molecules. It was not shown that intelligence was required to assemble DNA in general. Creationist fail again, as usual.
No, you still aren't. In fact, it's the opposite. By showing that we can create DNA from scratch, we're showing that no supernatural intervention is necessary.
Thank you, I was looking for someone who had done the math of savings over this amount of usage. I agree, that amount of savings is hardly trivial. Plus, I hate bright white screens with black text on it, especially at night. It makes my eyes so tired that it's a pain just to keep reading.
No matter how many times I watch these guys show how they do what they do with this sleight of hand stuff, it still never ceases to amaze me that they can understand the human psyche and powers of observation so well that they can pull this stuff off. I love it.
Unfortunately, most of the really interesting shows that I was getting into like Flashforward (one season), The Event (one season), and V (two seasons) were all canceled with no closure at all. Very disheartening for me to want to follow another show that might have the same thing happen to it. I have high hopes that this won't happen to The Walking Dead, it seems like it's got some serious viewer staying power.
I'm sorry, but as a guy even I can see how some random guy going "mmmm.... girl... will you be my friend" would be somewhat creepy.
Yet this is exactly what happens at every bar every Friday and Saturday night.
Maybe instead of the creepy "mmm be my friend" thinking which I'm sure is a small creepy percentage of the population, the majority are thinking "hey, she's cute and interesting, maybe she'll think the same of me!" You say "hi, I saw you were here and used this "creepy" app to find you", maybe you even make humorous use of that as part of your introduction. She might say "no thanks" and you say "that's cool, it was nice meeting you anyway" and you walk away. Or she might be interested and your future bride.
Haven't people been saying it for years? If you don't want something public, don't put it on the internet? If you post something publicly and then are creeped out that the public knows about it, then you're an idiot.
Right, because until Moses came along with his stone tablets (the first or second set) everyone thought that it was ok to go around killing anyone you wanted for no reason at all and there were no laws at all against murder.
Yes it is, if you understand what the hell you're talking about.
So *someone* creates the neurons
Where the neurons "come from" is irrelevant, whether they sprang forth from the magic of the intelligent designer or were created through abiogenesis. What is relevant is that they reproduce with a mechanism for heredity.
creates connections
Connections could be generated randomly and you will end up with the same result as long as you have heredity, mutation, and selection.
establishes rules of selection
Where the rules of selection come from is irrelevant, whether it's "natural" selection (environment) or "artificial" selection (we choose the rules, like for dog breeding). What matters is that there is selection choosing from a randomly generated pool of variety.
creates mutations for random change
What part of "random mutation" do you not get? Random mutations happen in DNA. This produces random variety that is then culled through selection. Same thing here.
and that is somehow a model for completely random unguided uncreated evolution???
Yes, because you have exactly the same mechanisms: heredity, random mutation, selection. Evolution isn't random; mutations are random.
It's amazing how ridiculous something seems when you think you understand it but you really don't, doesn't it?
Acupuncture? Seriously? In a discussion about the medical field? How in the world do these "acupuncturists" continue to peddle their bullshit as if it was some actual therapy? I'm not trying to give you shit, specifically, but putting acupuncture in the same breathe as neurosurgery is quite a stretch.
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For all we know, we may find life on Mars that has evolved to subsist in such a hostile environment using some completely novel feature or novel energy conversion process we can take advantage of or that excretes some waste product that we might find very useful that no life on Earth excretes. The point is we won't ever know until we know. Knowledge is great for its own sake, yes, but knowledge certainly isn't useful until you possess it.
"Girl look at that body..."
JOKECEPTION!
This guy should have used a hazer rather than a fog machine unless he wants his room to look like 5 AM on a winter day next to the bayou.
Hi! I'm a genetic code: GTACATCTTCAGGCATAC
Hi! I'm also a genetic code: GTCCATCTTCACGCATAC
Which one of us is more "ordered" and why? Also, if one of is a mutation of the first, is the other one less orderly? If so, is the opposite also true?
Only for non-nonsensical definitions of religion. No one worships at the altar of atheism and if you think that, then you might want to look up the word again.
If by fanatical and crazy you mean that they don't just give religion a free pass and respect anymore like atheists were forced to when the alternative was death. Because yeah, a passioned anti-religious posting is EXACTLY like witch burning, crucifiction, and letting your kid die of easily preventable diseases because of your religious belief.
Amazing, now you're a fucking mind reader. Holy shit, projecting much?
Way to mischaracterize a position. What you really mean is these crazies have failed to see any evidence for the positive claim of a god and so reject that particular hypothesis. Just a hair different from disproving a negative, no?
But no worries, you just keep telling yourself that all those atheists are crazy loons JUST LIKE religious fanatics. Sounds like they aren't the ones scheming and lying to themselves....
The scientific method demands reproducible test results, not that you accurately and completely recreate and simulate the entirety of a single theory. Please understand the scientific method before you start invoking it.
You could say the same thing for D&D. :P
Creatard.
Producing a new and novel genetic code is more like creating a new kernel but using the same basic building blocks (variables, while loops, for statements) that were used to create Linux.
Exactly. Breeding of dogs must be proof of the God of Abraham!
The obvious loud-roaring mouse in the room says that no supernatural intervention was required, only natural processes. Intelligence assembled THESE molecules. It was not shown that intelligence was required to assemble DNA in general. Creationist fail again, as usual.
No, we don't, because it doesn't say that and you are an idiot. Artificial selection != intelligent design.
No, you still aren't. In fact, it's the opposite. By showing that we can create DNA from scratch, we're showing that no supernatural intervention is necessary.
Thank you, I was looking for someone who had done the math of savings over this amount of usage. I agree, that amount of savings is hardly trivial. Plus, I hate bright white screens with black text on it, especially at night. It makes my eyes so tired that it's a pain just to keep reading.
No matter how many times I watch these guys show how they do what they do with this sleight of hand stuff, it still never ceases to amaze me that they can understand the human psyche and powers of observation so well that they can pull this stuff off. I love it.
Unfortunately, most of the really interesting shows that I was getting into like Flashforward (one season), The Event (one season), and V (two seasons) were all canceled with no closure at all. Very disheartening for me to want to follow another show that might have the same thing happen to it. I have high hopes that this won't happen to The Walking Dead, it seems like it's got some serious viewer staying power.
That sounds suspiciously like the natural world these creatures would live in were we not raising them to perform experiments on them.
No, they aren't.
Yet this is exactly what happens at every bar every Friday and Saturday night.
Maybe instead of the creepy "mmm be my friend" thinking which I'm sure is a small creepy percentage of the population, the majority are thinking "hey, she's cute and interesting, maybe she'll think the same of me!" You say "hi, I saw you were here and used this "creepy" app to find you", maybe you even make humorous use of that as part of your introduction. She might say "no thanks" and you say "that's cool, it was nice meeting you anyway" and you walk away. Or she might be interested and your future bride.
Haven't people been saying it for years? If you don't want something public, don't put it on the internet? If you post something publicly and then are creeped out that the public knows about it, then you're an idiot.
Right, because until Moses came along with his stone tablets (the first or second set) everyone thought that it was ok to go around killing anyone you wanted for no reason at all and there were no laws at all against murder.
Where the neurons "come from" is irrelevant, whether they sprang forth from the magic of the intelligent designer or were created through abiogenesis. What is relevant is that they reproduce with a mechanism for heredity.
Connections could be generated randomly and you will end up with the same result as long as you have heredity, mutation, and selection.
Where the rules of selection come from is irrelevant, whether it's "natural" selection (environment) or "artificial" selection (we choose the rules, like for dog breeding). What matters is that there is selection choosing from a randomly generated pool of variety.
What part of "random mutation" do you not get? Random mutations happen in DNA. This produces random variety that is then culled through selection. Same thing here.
Yes, because you have exactly the same mechanisms: heredity, random mutation, selection. Evolution isn't random; mutations are random.
It's amazing how ridiculous something seems when you think you understand it but you really don't, doesn't it?
Clearly, playing tennis causes brain cancer!
Acupuncture? Seriously? In a discussion about the medical field? How in the world do these "acupuncturists" continue to peddle their bullshit as if it was some actual therapy? I'm not trying to give you shit, specifically, but putting acupuncture in the same breathe as neurosurgery is quite a stretch.