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NosyNed Member Posts: 9004 From: Canada Joined: |
Page not found - The Daily Galaxy
For 25 years, Miller had kept it as cold as Jupiter’s icy moon Europa”too cold, most scientists had assumed, for anything to have happened. What Levy found was that seven different amino acids and 11 types of nucleobases had formed. “What was remarkable,” Bada says, “is that the yield in these frozen experiments was better, for some compounds, than it was with room-temperature experiments.” A young scientist named Alexander Vlassov may have accidentally found the answer of how tiny snippets of RNA became longer, well-crafted chains that could have acted as the very first enzymes. Vlassov was working at SomaGenics, a biotech company in Santa Cruz, California, to develop RNA enzymes that latch on to the hepatitis C virus. But his RNA enzymes weren’t behaving. They normally consisted of a single segment of RNA, but every time he cooled them below freezing to purify them, the chain of RNA spontaneously joined its ends into a circle, like a snake biting its own tail. As Vlassov attempted to correct the “glitch”, he noticed that another RNA enzyme, called hairpin, was also acting up. At room temperature, hairpin acts like scissors, snipping other RNA molecules into pieces. But when Vlassov froze it, it ran in reverse: It glued other RNA chains together end to end.
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3976 Joined: |
Originally posted here by Coyote. I thought also being in this topic would be a good thing.
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DevilsAdvocate Member (Idle past 3129 days) Posts: 1548 Joined: |
I will put in a plug for myself. Here is my website and a paper I wrote for college a few years ago called "Irreducible Complexity: Incontrovertible Proof of Intelligent Design?". Thought you might enjoy.
Just realize that I wrote this paper several years ago when I was believed in some form of theistic evolution before my thinking shifted nearly completely to a weak atheism worldview. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Added a subtitle which helps index the themes in the topic index. The subtitle is as long as the number of characters permits. Edited by DevilsAdvocate, : No reason given. For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Dr. Carl Sagan |
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
From the Geoscience Research Institute (an Adventist Church organization):
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE GEOLOGIC COLUMN: PART I The in a few words version:
quote: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE GEOLOGIC COLUMN: PART II The in a few words version:
quote: The main pages go into considerable detail. Somewhat odd in that they were written by a biology, not geology professor. Regardless, it seems to be a pretty good overview of the geologic column historical perspective. And it's from a YEC (young Earth creationist) organization. Although they still have plenty of YEC peculiarities, GRISDA has long struck me as making the best YEC effort to connect things up to an honest study of geologic reality. Moose Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for ” but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him." - Hunter S. Thompson "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
By Kevin Padian and Nicholas Matzke.
Found this via Panda's Thumb. The abstract:
quote: The full paper: http://www.biochemj.org/bj/417/0029/bj4170029.htm or http://www.biochemj.org/bj/417/0029/4170029.pdf Moose Edited by Minnemooseus, : Put an "and" between the two names at the message top.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1282 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Nova has a section covering the Dover trial which includes this rather lengthy and illuminating interview of Phillip Johnson, author of the Wedge strategy.
Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
Found this via Panda's Thumb.
Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life, the article in question.
Pharyngula's mention of it. What seems to be the two major blog discussions of the matter:
EVOLUTIONBLOG SANDWALK Panda's Thumb's opening paragraph:
quote: Quoting the beginning of the SANDWALK article:
quote: Currently Conservapedia has a link to the article in question at the top of their "In the News" column:
quote: Moose
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
Discovered (or rediscovered) this via Answers in Genesis BUSTED!: The Jesus Project. Quoting their first two paragraph:
quote: In that paragraph, AIG Busted refers (directly or indirectly) to a couple of Richard Carrier Blog articles: Richard Carrier Blogs: The Jesus ProjectRichard Carrier Blogs: Amherst Conference Also, the into of the project itself: http://www.jesus-project.com/intro.htm I thought all this should be of interest to the "Who was the real Jesus" people. Moose
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
I've watched a fair number of evolution/creation debates, and from my point of view the one thing they share in common is that the creationists always come out on top because they succeed in confusing the issue. This short debate between Robert Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council is one of the rare exceptions. It's only five minutes long, but watch how with a simple question Boston cuts through the fog, gets to the core of the issue, and completely destroys Yost's credibility.
The debate appears to be from about a year ago. --Percy
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
Get your evcforum tee-shirts and coffee mugs here: Gifts - CafePress Is Percy getting a piece of the action? Moose
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wtf!?
How'd that come about?
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Did Ancient Viruses Spur Human Evolution?
Page not found - The Daily Galaxy
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Humans may be primed to believe in creation
Humans may be primed to believe in creation | New Scientist
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2541 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
So it's not so much that creationism is right as it is that we just don't know any better.
And so the fact that the majority of americans accept creationism becomes absolutely useless (ignoring the appeal to popularity fallacy).
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Admin Director Posts: 13038 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Good God, that's damn weird!
I poked around at Cafe Press for a couple hours one night about four years ago and then gave it up for lack of time, and because my lack of artistic talent was woefully obvious. If you view the magnified versions you'll see the resolution is horrible, particularly the name "EvC Forum" itself that appears in gold. I had no idea that what I'd done was publicly accessible. If any have been sold, I'm not aware of it. Challenge for anyone interested: if you've got the time and the talent, I can give you access to the EvC Forum area of Cafe Press and you can design some decent T-shirts and coffee cups.
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