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How Not to Defend Darwin on "Survival of the Fittest"
Evolutionary biologists make poor historians, especially when it comes to Charles Darwin. So intent on preserving the reputation of St. Charles, evolutionists typically do their best to paper-over Darwin's less-than-savory views on issues like race or the application of natural selection to society. British biochemist and theistic evolutionist Denis Alexander runs true to form in a newly posted interview at BioLogos. In the interview, Alexander does his best to disassociate Darwin from the idea of "survival of the fittest," noting that the phrase was coined by Herbert Spencer rather than Charles Darwin, and that it was then picked up by...
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by Schroedinger's Dog
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lastyearon, you seem to be unaware that science as we know it would not exist but for the “Christian stuff.”
Well, somehow, he's kind of right. Without the "Christian stuff", we'd probably be 500 to 1000* years ahead of where we are now...
*these numbers are being pulled straight off my ass, but I remember seing an estimate about the scientific "dark age" caused by religion which was somewhere within these numbers.
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lastyearon, you seem to be unaware that science as we know it would not exist but for the “Christian stuff.”
Well, somehow, he's kind of right. Without the "Christian stuff", we'd probably be 500 to 1000* years ahead of where we are now...
*these numbers are being pulled straight off my ass, but I remember seing an estimate about the scientific "dark age" caused by religion which was somewhere within these numbers.
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by midwifetoad
Quote (Tracy P. Hamilton @ Aug. 31 2010,11:20)30 August 2010
On the Vastness of the Universe
by Half-vast Barry Arrington :D
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lastyearon
08/31/2010
11:03 am
This is a science blog, no? Why all the Christian stuff?
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Barry Arrington
08/31/2010
11:21 am
lastyearon, you seem to be unaware that science as we know it would not exist but for the “Christian stuff.”
Quote (Tracy P. Hamilton @ Aug. 31 2010,11:20)30 August 2010
On the Vastness of the Universe
by Half-vast Barry Arrington :D
Quote 22
lastyearon
08/31/2010
11:03 am
This is a science blog, no? Why all the Christian stuff?
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Barry Arrington
08/31/2010
11:21 am
lastyearon, you seem to be unaware that science as we know it would not exist but for the “Christian stuff.”
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by DiEb
Another take on the Horizontal No Free Lunch Theorem. R0b made I comment along these lines, I think...
Another take on the Horizontal No Free Lunch Theorem. R0b made I comment along these lines, I think...
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by Tracy P. Hamilton
30 August 2010
On the Vastness of the Universe
by Half-vast Barry Arrington
30 August 2010
On the Vastness of the Universe
by Half-vast Barry Arrington
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by midwifetoad
You missed the sign in three foor high neon letters that said, "Don't Push This Button"?
You missed the sign in three foor high neon letters that said, "Don't Push This Button"?
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by Schroedinger's Dog
Quote (midwifetoad @ Aug. 31 2010,15:35) Quote markf could you please go out tonight and look up at stars and planets??? ,,, then could you reach down and pick up a grain of sand???,,, and then could you look at the grain of sand??? and Then could you look at the stars again??? repeat a few times,,, and then let this thought sink in,,, If that grain of sand did not exist, out of all the grains of sand in the universe, you would not exist!!!
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-362853
I thought BA was on the wagon.
hey Midwifetoad! tard landmines are strictly forbiden! I just clicked the link and then had to waist a few minutes at my neurones' funerals!
Bad Toadey!
Quote (midwifetoad @ Aug. 31 2010,15:35) Quote markf could you please go out tonight and look up at stars and planets??? ,,, then could you reach down and pick up a grain of sand???,,, and then could you look at the grain of sand??? and Then could you look at the stars again??? repeat a few times,,, and then let this thought sink in,,, If that grain of sand did not exist, out of all the grains of sand in the universe, you would not exist!!!
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-362853
I thought BA was on the wagon.
hey Midwifetoad! tard landmines are strictly forbiden! I just clicked the link and then had to waist a few minutes at my neurones' funerals!
Bad Toadey!
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The Bathroom Wall
Post by Kattarina98
Quote (Schroedinger's Dog @ Aug. 31 2010,08:08)For those who can read french or have a good translator, I found this interesting bit about debate tactics:
debate logics
Quote Mon père et ma mère déclarent que la tisane d'excréments d'oies est bonne pour les migraines.
Haha! This is you:
Quote (Schroedinger's Dog @ Aug. 31 2010,08:08)For those who can read french or have a good translator, I found this interesting bit about debate tactics:
debate logics
Quote Mon père et ma mère déclarent que la tisane d'excréments d'oies est bonne pour les migraines.
Haha! This is you:
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by midwifetoad
Quote markf could you please go out tonight and look up at stars and planets??? ,,, then could you reach down and pick up a grain of sand???,,, and then could you look at the grain of sand??? and Then could you look at the stars again??? repeat a few times,,, and then let this thought sink in,,, If that grain of sand did not exist, out of all the grains of sand in the universe, you would not exist!!!
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-362853
I thought BA was on the wagon.
Quote markf could you please go out tonight and look up at stars and planets??? ,,, then could you reach down and pick up a grain of sand???,,, and then could you look at the grain of sand??? and Then could you look at the stars again??? repeat a few times,,, and then let this thought sink in,,, If that grain of sand did not exist, out of all the grains of sand in the universe, you would not exist!!!
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....-362853
I thought BA was on the wagon.
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by Kattarina98
Quote (DiEb @ Aug. 31 2010,09:12)Just for archiving: I added this comment to B. Arrington's post..
Quote Just for something completely different: The thread on the new paper of R. Marks II and W. Dembski <i>A Search for the Search</i> doesn't allow for commenting. I suppose that there is quite an interest in discussing this paper here at Uncommon Descent. Can't the thread be opened for comments? Or can another post be created for the discussion? Thanks!
You might consider posting it on Corny's blog. He doesn't censure comments.
Quote (DiEb @ Aug. 31 2010,09:12)Just for archiving: I added this comment to B. Arrington's post..
Quote Just for something completely different: The thread on the new paper of R. Marks II and W. Dembski <i>A Search for the Search</i> doesn't allow for commenting. I suppose that there is quite an interest in discussing this paper here at Uncommon Descent. Can't the thread be opened for comments? Or can another post be created for the discussion? Thanks!
You might consider posting it on Corny's blog. He doesn't censure comments.
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Uncommonly Dense Thread 3
Post by DiEb
Just for archiving: I added this comment to B. Arrington's post..
Quote Just for something completely different: The thread on the new paper of R. Marks II and W. Dembski <i>A Search for the Search</i> doesn't allow for commenting. I suppose that there is quite an interest in discussing this paper here at Uncommon Descent. Can't the thread be opened for comments? Or can another post be created for the discussion? Thanks!
Just for archiving: I added this comment to B. Arrington's post..
Quote Just for something completely different: The thread on the new paper of R. Marks II and W. Dembski <i>A Search for the Search</i> doesn't allow for commenting. I suppose that there is quite an interest in discussing this paper here at Uncommon Descent. Can't the thread be opened for comments? Or can another post be created for the discussion? Thanks!
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The Bathroom Wall
Post by Louis
Quote (Schroedinger's Dog @ Aug. 31 2010,14:08)[SNIP]
Does it show that I'm bored today?
Noooooo. No. No. No. Not at all. Perish the very thought. No.
Well.
Maybe a bit.
Louis
Quote (Schroedinger's Dog @ Aug. 31 2010,14:08)[SNIP]
Does it show that I'm bored today?
Noooooo. No. No. No. Not at all. Perish the very thought. No.
Well.
Maybe a bit.
Louis
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Another Level of Recycling
I signed up for a couple of recycle / “freecycle” email lists, one for Pinellas County, and the other for Manatee County. If you haven’t seen these, people who want to pass along items that they aren’t using will put up an “OFFER: item” type email, and people interested in using the item can respond [...]
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The casual assumption of privilege
See update at the end of the post One would think after two years of public hoorah in this county over church/state issues in the Freshwater case that there would be a heightened sensitivity to those issues among employees of Knox County (Ohio) schools. But that’s apparently not the case. A Job Training Coordinator at the Knox County Career Center, a vocational high school, is organizing a prayer group for county educators to meet at...
Richard B. Hoppe
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And the winners are...
with contributions by Matt Young Due to some hanging chads, we have two winners this week for the “invasive” category—kinda makes sense—Al Denelsbeck and Malcolm S. Schongalla. Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home. Here, I caught detail of the “toes” (cirri) during feeding, with a depth of field estimated at less than 2mm. And of course, Darwin spent no small amount...
Reed A. Cartwright
http://dererumnatura.us/
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Birdwatching for creationists
I question that there is a mexican [sic] gray wolf. Subspecies don’t exist. Its [sic] just a wolf. It breeds and would with any wolf anywhere. Any slight difference in colour of fur etc is ireelevant [sic]. I’m sure the shades of this mexican [sic] are as varied as every mountain. In facxt [sic] its [sic] of a kind. This creationist says the dog kink [sic] is the smae [sic] as the bear kind and...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
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Atheist Philosopher of Physics Bradley Monton on Intelligent Design Debate, Part One
Click here to listen. This episode of ID the Future features part one of Casey Luskin's interview with atheist philosopher of physics Bradley Monton, author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Prof. Monton has a...
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Eric Hoffer's Skepticism About Darwinism
ENV is pleased to welcome guest blogger Tom Bethell, a senior editor of The American Spectator and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science (Regnery) and other books. Many years ago I interviewed Eric Hoffer (1898-1983), and may have been the last journalist to do so. Widely known as the Longshoreman Philosopher, he was for years a member of the dockers' union in San Francisco, but his views were not those of your typical stevedore. He had published The True Believer in 1951, and more books after that. Impressed by the breadth of his mind and the unconventional nature...
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If Darwinian Evolution Can't Fix Broken Genes, How Can It Create New Ones?
The Darwinian model of evolution holds that one of the key mechanisms of evolutionary innovation is the duplication of genes and the subsequent divergence of one of the duplicate copies to undertake a new functional role. Because a probability of a single gene stumbling upon a significantly different (yet functionally advantageous) sequence is so small, the idea is that, following a duplication of a gene, one copy is able to retain the original function, while the other is free to explore the vast sea of combinatorial possibilities in search of some novel function. It is widely believed that a duplicate...
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Racism? Sexism? Que sera, sera.
Evolutionary evangelist Jerry Coyne argues that we are all just slaves to our genes and that behaviors likes racism and sexism are facts of evolution. They're in our "own nature".We may also have evolved to be sexist and xenophobic, but that doesn't mean that we should give up trying to extirpate racism and sexism from our world. After all, by asking people to stop disliking foreigners, or those of different races, we may be asking them to defy their own nature.Yet, he thinks we should try to stamp them out anyhow. But, if these traits are simply a result of...
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