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Bob O'H



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 02 2010,10:57   

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I was waiting to see how long after the NASA press conference* it would take for some creationist to declare victory.

Cornelius Hunter preemptively (and tentatively) declares victory 6 hours before the release!

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That’s right. A falsification of a major evolutionary prediction would be, in a brilliant stroke, turned on its head.


Cause, you know, predictions of shared biochemistry applies to all life, everywhere.

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*(2:00 today-announcement about something big published in Science)

According to Adam Rutherford (of The Guardian), its related to this paper: they're talking about bacteria that use arsenic in their metabolism. He also has revealed that the stuff "tastes bloody awful".

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It is fun to dip into the various threads to watch cluelessness at work in the hands of the confident exponent. - Soapy Sam (so say we all)

   
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