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quote:Am I wrong to think that is procedure and not methodology. Yes, a procedure is a method. If you're questioning your procedures then you are doing methodology.
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Would that include sfs's objection to Hawks? I don't know and I don't care.
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Creationists would label all of those earlier hominids apes. So would scientists, because they are apes. And so are humans. Humans are apes.
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quote:A complete misrepresentation of my posts. I never claimed any of this. Of course you didn't claim, yourself, that you don't understand this stuff. It is apparent from what you write, to anyone who does understand this stuff, that you do not understand this stuff. A: Hey man, 2 + 2 = 5B: No, that's wrong. You don't understand math. A: That's a misrepresentation. I never claimed that I don't understand math. Huh?
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quote:"However, science tells us that animals can have cognitive faculties that are superior to human beings." Read more at: http://phys.org/...2-humans-smarter-animals-experts.html#jCp This could explain my frustration as it relates to evolutionists. What, gross and utter misunderstanding? What you replied with has nothing to do with what you replied to. Humans being apes has nothing to do with other animals having cognitive faculties that are superior to humans. "Ape" is just another classification like primate, mammal, chordate, and animal... all of which humans are. How familiar are you with the scientific classification system for species?
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Multiply the mutation rate (= (number of mutations)/bp/generation) by the mean size of the mutation (= (number of bases changed)/mutation) and you'll get (number of bases changed)/bp/generation. Multiply that by the number of generations, and you've got k, the fraction of bases that differ (= (number of bases changed)/bp). For single-base substitutions, it doesn't matter, since it's 1 (base changed)/mutation. Hey man, Have you ever used LaTeX? Percy put the coding in so we could use it here. With it, you can change your paragraph into formulas. Check it out:
\\ and\\ \\ mean\ size\ of\ the\ mutation = {number\ of\ bases\ changed \over mutation}\\ \\ so\\ \\ mutation\ rate \times mean\ size\ of\ the\ mutation\ =\\ \\ {number\ of\ mutations \over {bp \times generation}} \times {number\ of\ bases\ changed \over mutation}\\ \\ \\ which\ gives\\ \\ \\ {number\ of\ bases\ changed \over {bp \times generation}} \\ \\ Multiply\ that\ by\ the\ number\ of\ generations\ and\ you\ get\ \\ \\ k = {number\ of\ bases\ changed \over bp} [/latex]--> Its kind of a bitch to type all the coding out, but once its done it looks a lot better. Dontcha think?
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Good post...
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zaius137 writes: I will be honest, ... Is that the exception that proves the rule?
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You can believe in magic, superstition, wishful thinking, old wives tales, folklore, what the stars foretell and what the neighbors think, omens, public opinion, astromancy, spells, Ouija boards, anecdotes, Da Vinci codes, tarot cards, sorcery, seances, sore bunions, black cats, divine revelation, table tipping, witch doctors, crystals and crystal balls, numerology, divination, faith healing, miracles, palm reading, the unguessable verdict of history, magic tea leaves, new age mumbo-jumbo, hoodoo, voodoo and all that other weird stuff. You missed one EVOLUTION
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quote:"However, science tells us that animals can have cognitive faculties that are superior to human beings." Read more at: http://phys.org/...2-humans-smarter-animals-experts.html#jCp This could explain my frustration as it relates to evolutionists. How easily can you keep up with this chimp?
http://youtu.be/JkNV0rSndJ0
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I hope no one is missing what's most amazing, because it isn't the rapidity of the touches. It's that the chimp looks at the numbers for only a second before hitting the circle that replaces them with white boxes. The chimp not only knows the ordering of the digits 1-9, he can remember them positionally after just a glance. Me too, that's what I meant by "keeping up" with him/her. On some of them, the numbers go white before I can ever read them all, let alone remember which one was where. Now, I'm sure that if I practiced a bit then I could get up to speed. But still, I'd probably be doing a bit of concentrating and if you watch the chimp, they seem so nonchalant and their performance is effortless. They're even kinda looking around not really paying attention as they're doing the task. That really amazes me.
People are occasionally born with amazing talents, and since we're just animals it shouldn't be surprising that the same is true of animals. This chimp's talents seem similar in nature to a human savant's. I wish I remember where I ran across the video. We were talking about chimps, in general, having a better visual memory than humans, in general. That is, I'm not sure there was anything special about this chimp in particular, and they may just excel at tasks like these.
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