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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2199 Joined: |
What's wrong with online dictionaries? You can try Merriam-Webster, for example.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 634 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Hey Zucadragon
If you want to see how absurd that discussion can get see Why not use definitions as used by universities that actually teach biological evolution? quote: quote: Or you can use Darwin as a starting point: Descent with Modification. Or the "modern synthesis" definition: the change in frequency of alleles in populations over generations. Any definition not used in the science is irrelevant, as it is talking about a different evolution, and any attempt to use it in place of a scientific definition is equivocation and misrepresentation. Enjoy. by our ability to understand Rebel American Zen Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. • • • Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click) • • •
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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 1927 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
This is mostly for Wounded King, though anybody else is welcome to answer.
In Cedre's topic about Abiogenesis, a side topic about mutations came up, and Wounded King said the following:
Is this figure (~100/generation) a generally-accepted mutation rate? -Bluejay/Mantis/Thylacosmilus Darwin loves you.
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Wounded King Member (Idle past 3324 days) Posts: 4149 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Joined: |
We had a quite lengthy thread that had mutation rates as part of one of Mark Kennedy's threads on Genetics and Human Brain Evolution
The ~100 figure I got from a paper by Kondrashov (2003), who says 'the total number of new mutations per diploid human genome per generation is ~100'. There are other methods used to estimate mutation rates than those Kondrashov suggests and they all give slightly different rates. TTFN, WK
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Zucadragon Member (Idle past 2786 days) Posts: 61 From: Netherlands Joined: |
I like online dictionaries, but not in discussions with creationists, because they'll often focus on the wrong term and use that to say "see, it can mean anything".. Which is an annoying starting point in a discussion.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Hi Zucadragon. Perhaps this would be a suitable thread topic for you to propose so as to debate your points. Creationists may regard definitions alternative to standard definitions as skewed to ideology preferred by evolutionists. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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kuresu Member (Idle past 1742 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
Alright, so I attempted a hiking trip in Uppsala recently. The plan was to follow the river that cuts through town upstream, which turned out to be largely impossible, but one of the shots I got was this:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=41707142&l=46c6f&id=10239104 It's a public link, so you can open it even if you're not in facebook. What I want to know, is whether uplifting is responsible for any of the bank height. Sweden rises on average 1yd/century (haven't found any figures for Uppsala specifically). The river bank is about 9-12 feet high. I'd say that this is the normal water flow, as the owners have placed an electrical fence splitting the river bed down the middle (not entirely sure I was allowed to hike there :o). On both sides it's either farmland or pasture, so I'm not sure if the banks have been built up, leveled out, or whatnot. Opinions? oh, and to the mods: if this isn't the right forum, feel free to shunt this off to where ever it belongs.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Due to the lack of vegetation, it doesn't appear to be very old.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
I don't know how much you care about anonymity, but you've totally blown it there, CC.
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shalamabobbi Member (Idle past 2078 days) Posts: 397 Joined: |
I am at page 243 in the book recommended by Mod written by Brian Greene. A question has arisen from an earlier section that wasn't entirely clear. It discussed chewy on a distant star system sitting down and me doing the same here so that our 'nows' align. And then chewy gets up and walks towards me or away from me so that his now time slices become skewed with respect to mine and though the angle is small the effect is large due to our separation in distance. Then it mentions the implications of this were apparent to Einstien etc. What exactly, (not being Einstien), are these implications? If hundreds of years into my future becomes part of chewy's time slice for his 'now' does that imply that my future already exists? Or is choice/'free will' preserved in that chewy is seeing well into the past of my planet so that motion relative to me cannot cause him to see past my 'now'?
If the latter as I assume, what is the evidence that spacetime exists as a whole; past, present and future? Thanks.
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Huntard Member (Idle past 1524 days) Posts: 2870 From: Limburg, The Netherlands Joined: |
On a somewhat similar note, I have always wondered how we know we're in a spiral galaxy, instead of, say, a disc galaxy.
I hunt for the truth
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kuresu Member (Idle past 1742 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
Yes, and the grand canyon doesn't have a lot of vegetation. Yet it is very old (6 million years or so).
I don't see what vegetation has to do with age. In fact, I'm not really sure what age has to do with the photo. The only relevant information is that sweden was under an ice sheet 10,000 years ago, and Uppsala has been settled since before christ. So, anyone who might actually know something about geology have an opinion? oh, and CS:if I was worried about anonymity, I certainly wouldn't have my current username or photo.
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kuresu Member (Idle past 1742 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
A disc galaxy is a spiral galaxy.
There are four types of basic galaxies. Spiral (rotating disc of stars with a central bulge) Irregular (well, the name kind of says it). and Dwarf (which are far, far smaller, about 1/100 of the Milky Way, and they are also classed by the above three cats) We know the Milky way is a spiral because of observations and mass distribution. We've also managed to figure out things like our orbital velocity. Technically, we're a barred spiral galaxy. The latest news is that we're almost 50% bigger than we thought, based on a new orbital velocity of about 914,000km/h. But yeah, figuring out what the home looks like when you can only see from inside one room is a touch difficult. Check out these two wikis:
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Admin Director Posts: 12787 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Replies to questions raised in this thread should be from people who know the answer or can at least offer informed insights. This isn't the right thread for introducing opinions for discussion. Please, no replies to this message.
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Coragyps Member Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Kuresu - Uppsala appears to be rebounding at about half a meter per century, according to a map here. I'm guessing, though, that the soil/rock properties have a lot to do with whether a creek is deeply incised like what you seem to be describing - I've seen creeks with mighty steep banks in Oklahoma, which isn't doing much rebounding from either a geological or political perspective. :D
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