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keiths



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 05 2011,22:56   

Gilbert Dodgen:
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At age 90 as of 2011, my father is one of the few living scientists who developed the atomic bomb during WWII. He named me after the great physical chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis, under whom my dad earned his Ph.D. in his early 20s while working on the Manhattan Project.

When I was a child in the 1950s rumors spread that the communist Chinese were developing an atomic bomb. I asked my dad, “Why don’t we just keep it a secret from them?” My dad replied, and I’ll never forget it, “Gilbert, the secret is in nature, and it’s there to be found by anyone who looks hard enough.”

Of course, my dad was talking about the nature of the nucleus of the atom, physical chemistry, and the potential for a sustained nuclear chain reaction.

I would like to offer the following observation, inspired by my father’s comment: Design is to be found in nature, by anyone who looks hard enough.

The irony is that figuring out nuclear fission requires quite a bit of searching for “secrets,” while design in nature is there to be found with almost no searching at all. Design screams from every corner of creation. Not finding design in nature is what takes a lot of effort.

Poor Frill's head is going to explode if he tiptoes any closer to the inevitable question.  Dissonance much, Gil?

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didymos



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,00:33   

I don't know why, but the lack of self-awareness over there still stupefies me.  DeNews:

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In fairness, Matzke doesn’t really know much about carnivorous plants, whereas Loennig is clearly an expert.

Matzke has a tendency to rely on pseudo-experts, which can play him false.

His best bet right now, to event he score, would be to bring in a real expert on his side.


Her stupidity is truly awe-inspiring.

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Again "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio

  
sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,03:40   

Quote (didymos @ Sep. 06 2011,00:33)
I don't know why, but the lack of self-awareness over there still stupefies me.  DeNews:

 
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In fairness, Matzke doesn’t really know much about carnivorous plants, whereas Loennig is clearly an expert.

Matzke has a tendency to rely on pseudo-experts, which can play him false.

His best bet right now, to event he score, would be to bring in a real expert on his side.


Her stupidity is truly awe-inspiring.

Ah, Lönnig again. As usual he cites Behe and other creationists in his article "Carnivorous Plants" that somehow made it into Nature's Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences. Interestingly, he cites Robert Nachtwey's "Der Irrweg des Darwinismus" published 1959. According to a review it contained already everything that Intelligent Design claims today and those arguments were outdated back then:
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We could dispose of this book and its
subject-the misdirection of Darwinism
-in a few sentences. On the basis of its
intrinsic merit it rates only a little space.
But the very fact that such a work could
be published a century after Darwin's
The Origin of Species is interesting in
itself and, to anyone concerned with the
resistance that scientific knowledge often
encounters, this fact is important enough
to merit some study.


ETA link

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JLT



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,06:15   

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If you are referring to the God of the Bible, then He owes us nothing other than punishment for our crimes against Him. If this makes no sense to you, then you plainly fail to understand simple Biblical theology.

LOL.

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"Random mutations, if they are truly random, will affect, and potentially damage, any aspect of the organism, [...]
Thus, a realistic [computer] simulation [of evolution] would allow the program, OS, and hardware to be affected in a random fashion." GilDodgen, Frilly shirt owner

  
sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,06:37   

As if Gil Dodgen never ever mentioned the achievements of his father before:
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Robert Byers
September 6, 2011 at 3:12 ame

Didn’t know one of the writers here comes from such a achieving family in the great stories of the use of physics. Too bad its killing people but in reality the atomic bombs had to be used to save people from being killed other ways. The good guys too.
Its cool to have creationism(s) these days with rightfully confident people.



Will Gildo tell Robert that his father is an atheist not dismissing evolution theory?
BTW: Since when is ID creationism?
Or do I miss irony and Mr. Byers pisses off Gildo?

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,06:46   

Quote (didymos @ Sep. 06 2011,00:33)
I don't know why, but the lack of self-awareness over there still stupefies me.  DeNews:

 
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In fairness, Matzke doesn’t really know much about carnivorous plants, whereas Loennig is clearly an expert.

Matzke has a tendency to rely on pseudo-experts, which can play him false.

His best bet right now, to event he score, would be to bring in a real expert on his side.


Her stupidity is truly awe-inspiring.

expert  - n., connotation: Someone who authoritatively tells you what you want to hear.

As long as IDC advocates and cheerleaders go with that, they'll keep giving us those Dover moments in court.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,12:24   

And here I though an expert was somebody what used to be a pert...

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,12:26   

Well I learned something today. For as long as I can remember I had been pronouncing Gil with a soft G but now I discover it's short for Gilbert.

Gilbert Dodgen.

Someone really ought to tell him the Universe is taking the piss out of him. The only other Gil I am aware of is Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers). And so without further excuse here's a picture of the lovely Wilma Deering.

(snatched from wilmadeering.com believe it or not)


  
midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,12:49   

Doesn't this post break some kind of rule at UD?

there is no systematic relationship between IQ and achievement

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BillB



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,13:58   

Quote (Henry J @ Sep. 06 2011,18:24)
And here I though an expert was somebody what used to be a pert...

ex-pert. (Noun):  female breasts that have succumbed to the forces of gravity and age.

  
midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,14:03   

I don't know if this has been posted, but the new Koonin book is available free for download At Amazon. If you non't have a Kindle, you can download a free reader.

The News at UD is rather stupidly touting it as an ID friendly book.

Details here:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyng....freebie

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,14:04   

Quote (BillB @ Sep. 06 2011,19:58)
Quote (Henry J @ Sep. 06 2011,18:24)
And here I though an expert was somebody what used to be a pert...

ex-pert. (Noun):  female breasts that have succumbed to the forces of gravity and age.

There's an excellent section of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"* in which new definitions are given to old words. For example:

Countryside: To kill Piers Morgan.

Coquette: Small penis.

And so on and so forth.

Louis

* The Radio 4 show that gave us Mornington Crescent.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,14:34   

Quote (Louis @ Sep. 06 2011,14:04)
 
Quote (BillB @ Sep. 06 2011,19:58)
 
Quote (Henry J @ Sep. 06 2011,18:24)
And here I though an expert was somebody what used to be a pert...

ex-pert. (Noun):  female breasts that have succumbed to the forces of gravity and age.

There's an excellent section of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"* in which new definitions are given to old words. For example:

Countryside: To kill Piers Morgan.

Coquette: Small penis.

And so on and so forth.

Louis

* The Radio 4 show that gave us Mornington Crescent.

rec·ti·tude  (r?kt?-t??d, -ty??d) n. the honorable, upright demeanor assumed by your proctologist as he prepares to examine you.

ETA:  those length-marked vowels looked just fine in preview.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,17:48   

Quote (midwifetoad @ Sep. 06 2011,14:03)
I don't know if this has been posted, but the new Koonin book is available free for download At Amazon. If you non't have a Kindle, you can download a free reader.

The News at UD is rather stupidly touting it as an ID friendly book.

Details here:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyng....freebie

That is putting is mildly. Quote from Koonin's book:

"Of course, ID is malicious nonsense"

Bwahaha

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Reciprocating Bill



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,17:57   

The universe implodes as DeNudes opines on IQ, snatching an illustration from the Wikipedia article on IQ, uncredited.

That article also states:

"The American Psychological Association's report 'Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns' states that wherever it has been studied, children with high scores on tests of intelligence tend to learn more of what is taught in school than their lower-scoring peers. The correlation between IQ scores and grades is about .50. This means that the explained variance is 25%."

And

"The validity of IQ as a predictor of job performance is above zero for all work studied to date, but varies with the type of job and across different studies, ranging from 0.2 to 0.6. The correlations were higher when the unreliability of measurement methods were controlled for. While IQ is more strongly correlated with reasoning and less so with motor function, IQ-test scores predict performance ratings in all occupations."

And

"The American Psychological Association's 1995 report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that IQ scores accounted for (explained variance) about quarter of the social status variance and one-sixth of the income variance. Statistical controls for parental SES eliminate about a quarter of this predictive power. Psychometric intelligence appears as only one of a great many factors that influence social outcomes."

There are many caveats; academic performance, job performance and income are all complexly and multiply determined. IQ has a relationship with each of them, stronger in some instances than in others.

From this DeNudes concludes:
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within a normal range - there is no systematic relationship between IQ and achievement.

*Facepalm*

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,20:20   

But will Gil conclude from this that there is not a strong correlation between daddy's career achievements and the achievements of his web potato child?

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MichaelJ



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,21:23   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Sep. 07 2011,08:57)
The universe implodes as DeNudes opines on IQ, snatching an illustration from the Wikipedia article on IQ, uncredited.

That article also states:

"The American Psychological Association's report 'Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns' states that wherever it has been studied, children with high scores on tests of intelligence tend to learn more of what is taught in school than their lower-scoring peers. The correlation between IQ scores and grades is about .50. This means that the explained variance is 25%."

And

"The validity of IQ as a predictor of job performance is above zero for all work studied to date, but varies with the type of job and across different studies, ranging from 0.2 to 0.6. The correlations were higher when the unreliability of measurement methods were controlled for. While IQ is more strongly correlated with reasoning and less so with motor function, IQ-test scores predict performance ratings in all occupations."

And

"The American Psychological Association's 1995 report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that IQ scores accounted for (explained variance) about quarter of the social status variance and one-sixth of the income variance. Statistical controls for parental SES eliminate about a quarter of this predictive power. Psychometric intelligence appears as only one of a great many factors that influence social outcomes."

There are many caveats; academic performance, job performance and income are all complexly and multiply determined. IQ has a relationship with each of them, stronger in some instances than in others.

From this DeNudes concludes:
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within a normal range - there is no systematic relationship between IQ and achievement.

*Facepalm*

Isn't the data skewed because a lot of the high IQ people were not interested in "achieving". I've met a lot of very smart people who were contented with a job that gave them enough resources to follow their own passions.

  
sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,22:27   

Quote (MichaelJ @ Sep. 06 2011,21:23)
Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Sep. 07 2011,08:57)
The universe implodes as DeNudes opines on IQ, snatching an illustration from the Wikipedia article on IQ, uncredited.

That article also states:

"The American Psychological Association's report 'Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns' states that wherever it has been studied, children with high scores on tests of intelligence tend to learn more of what is taught in school than their lower-scoring peers. The correlation between IQ scores and grades is about .50. This means that the explained variance is 25%."

And

"The validity of IQ as a predictor of job performance is above zero for all work studied to date, but varies with the type of job and across different studies, ranging from 0.2 to 0.6. The correlations were higher when the unreliability of measurement methods were controlled for. While IQ is more strongly correlated with reasoning and less so with motor function, IQ-test scores predict performance ratings in all occupations."

And

"The American Psychological Association's 1995 report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that IQ scores accounted for (explained variance) about quarter of the social status variance and one-sixth of the income variance. Statistical controls for parental SES eliminate about a quarter of this predictive power. Psychometric intelligence appears as only one of a great many factors that influence social outcomes."

There are many caveats; academic performance, job performance and income are all complexly and multiply determined. IQ has a relationship with each of them, stronger in some instances than in others.

From this DeNudes concludes:
 
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within a normal range - there is no systematic relationship between IQ and achievement.

*Facepalm*

Isn't the data skewed because a lot of the high IQ people were not interested in "achieving". I've met a lot of very smart people who were contented with a job that gave them enough resources to follow their own passions.

Isn't a job that gives
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them enough resources to follow their own passions
already quite some achievement?

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- William Dembski -

   
Erasmus, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 06 2011,23:33   

all you white people want to do is work work work.  i'll lay here under this pawpaw tree and mind the fishing line tied to my toe whilst i take sips from pap's peartenin' juice

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,00:16   

Quote (Henry J @ Sep. 06 2011,12:24)
And here I though an expert was somebody what used to be a pert...

"X" = the mathematical symbol for the unknown.

"Spurt" = a drip under pressure.

So an expert is an unknown drip under pressure.

UD is full of experts.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,03:24   

Quote (sparc @ Sep. 06 2011,20:27)
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Isn't the data skewed because a lot of the high IQ people were not interested in "achieving". I've met a lot of very smart people who were contented with a job that gave them enough resources to follow their own passions.

Isn't a job that gives  
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them enough resources to follow their own passions
already quite some achievement?



I recall vaguely a "zen*" story about a student asking a teacher about what a "miracle" was, the reply;

Sleep when you are tired, eat when you are hungry.



*I doubt it is associated with any actual Zen Buddhist teaching. More likely Nichiren Buddhism, since they are not (as) opposed to gratifying physical desires like fatigue and hunger rationalized under the teaching of "Expedient Means."

Edited by Dr.GH on Sep. 07 2011,01:25

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,06:47   

Quote (Raevmo @ Sep. 06 2011,17:48)
   
Quote (midwifetoad @ Sep. 06 2011,14:03)
I don't know if this has been posted, but the new Koonin book is available free for download At Amazon. If you non't have a Kindle, you can download a free reader.

The News at UD is rather stupidly touting it as an ID friendly book.

Details here:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyng....freebie

That is putting is mildly. Quote from Koonin's book:

"Of course, ID is malicious nonsense"

Bwahaha


Reality is settling in:
 
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Cannuckian Yankee 4.1 Incidentally, News, I’m now on the 2nd Chapter and it appears that it’s not exactly a “Darwin-free book.” Koonin appears to have more of a problem with the “Hardness” and dogmatism of the modern synthesis; thus the Preface: “Toward a Postmodern Synthesis of Evolutionary Biology.” He praises Darwin and those who further praise Darwin; even mentioning Dobzhansky’s famous “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” not once, but twice for emphasis.

One thing I can tell you about the book – it’s very well written and easy to follow. He’s not so much interested in the fine details as he is in the “big picture.” He states at the beginning that he first intended it to be a popular Tome like that of Hawking, but later revised it to be a bit more “scientific” but not technical.

They do get a little encouragement.  Koonin apparently thinks that abiogenesis is a 1 in 10^thousand or so  event.

Thanks for the publicity, Denyse!

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,07:28   

Koonin lists a number of abiogenesis scenarios and pronounces one of them as being a long shot.

The ID friendliness is diluted by the fact that his main point is we don't know how it happened.

But he does fall back to the multiverse as a way of overcoming odds.

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,07:48   

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One thing I can tell you about the book – it’s very well written and easy to follow. He’s not so much interested in the fine details as he is in the “big picture.” He states at the beginning that he first intended it to be a popular Tome like that of Hawking, but later revised it to be a bit more “scientific” but not technical.


This seems right to me. It's extremely well written, and unless there are boneheaded errors, it's going to be a classic on the order of The Selfish Gene.

It seems to hit every point that ever comes up in evolution debates, and except for OOL, it nails them down tight.

There's a -- perhaps unnecessary -- section on postmodernism, which quietly takes it down. Concluding that most big subjects in science, including physics, are incomplete and provisional, with overlapping "narratives," each of which reliably describes some phenomena, but which fail to be the grand unifying theory. There's an implied "so what."

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,09:34   

Quote (Raevmo @ Sep. 06 2011,17:48)
Quote (midwifetoad @ Sep. 06 2011,14:03)
I don't know if this has been posted, but the new Koonin book is available free for download At Amazon. If you non't have a Kindle, you can download a free reader.

The News at UD is rather stupidly touting it as an ID friendly book.

Details here:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyng....freebie

That is putting is mildly. Quote from Koonin's book:

"Of course, ID is malicious nonsense"

Bwahaha

Did  de News really just get excited over a new book on evolution because it knocks over her cartoon understanding of "Darwinism"?  

Too bad she doesn't read beyond the cover slips.   It seems most of her anti-Darwin rage was based on her understanding of the Selfish Gene book cover.  (according to her, that's the gene that makes us act selfishly and therefore evolve)

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,09:45   

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Did  de News really just get excited over a new book on evolution because it knocks over her cartoon understanding of "Darwinism"?


I have to say that after following the "debate" for several decades (starting with Gould's essays), there is little in the Koonin book that I've never heard of.

But it's a relentless pounding of creationism and ID, even though it never mentions them in the body of the book.

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,10:08   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Sep. 06 2011,17:57)
There are many caveats; academic performance, job performance and income are all complexly and multiply determined. IQ has a relationship with each of them, stronger in some instances than in others.

From this DeNudes concludes:
   
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within a normal range - there is no systematic relationship between IQ and achievement.

*Facepalm*

DeNews' proof that IQ does not correlate to achievement:  Look at all the blogs I have achieved!

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,15:49   

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Isn't a job that gives      
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them enough resources to follow their own passions
already quite some achievement?

As often before, I return to Kliban, the master:



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"People are always looking for natural selection to generate random mutations" - Densye  4-4-2011
JoeG BTW dumbass- some variations help ensure reproductive fitness so they cannot be random wrt it.

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,15:57   

I like Kilban, new to me! Found this, seems relevant to ID.



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 07 2011,16:21   

Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Sep. 07 2011,13:57)
I like Kilban, new to me! Found this, seems relevant to ID.


I was just thinking ID is like that scene in Sleeper where Allen and Keaton are asked to check the cell structure of the clone. Hilarity (or at least a mild chuckle) ensues.

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