December 2005, Posts of the Month

Thanks so much, crash.

Name: nwr
Forum: Biological Evolution
Thread: the phylogeographic challenge to creationism
Post #: 282nwr does a nice job of getting across several key aspects of population genetics in concise, plain language. Hopefully it will help Faith and others understand that change in genetic diversity is not the simple, constant arithmetic they would like it to be.

Thank you much, Omnivorous - I'm glad someone understood what I was trying to do with that line of discussion...

I second the nomination as the thread is an interesting and worthwhile exercise that I haven't seen before. Also, I am learning something about being utilized as an "expert" reference (mostly that it is taking a lot of willpower to try to limit my comments to non-biased technical explanations).

It's not so much that I'm nominating a post, per se, but I really thought that this instance deserved recognition beyond its own thread.I'd like to give a huge nod and thanks to Faith for making me my own emoticon, and Asgara for helping tweak and post it. You can see the first usages of the fantabulous pinksasquatchian emoticon here in the Pink Sasquatch's Festivus for the Rest of Us thread.But the real reason I POTMed it: I want to triple-thank Faith for having the desire and going through the trouble of making the thing, especially considering we've had some pretty intense and adversarial arguments lately. I think it demonstrates that despite the fact that heated arguments sometimes seem personal, we're still debating the issues and not each other, and in the end we're here to have (our own demented idea of) fun.Thanks again, Faith! (Festivus is friday, by the way...)