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Recent content by exchemist

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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    The difference today though is we have observational evidence now for an actual age of the Earth, based on radiometric dating of rocks and samples of meteorites.
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Not only the Jews but most Christians too, consider the Genesis stories to be allegorical rather than literal descriptions of events. It is only certain fundamentalist Protestant denominations that began insisting on taking them literally in the c.18th and c.19th.
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    No, there is good evidence for the Cambrian radiation. (Though “explosion“is a slightly questionable description, since it took place over approx 40 million years). The distribution of the fossils in the rocks, and the radiometric dating of strata of that age, are very sound evidence of when it...
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    Occam's Shave Cream and the Doctrine of Astrology

    But it has to be the most parsimonious explanation that is fully consistent with the observations. If it were just the simplest, relativity and quantum theory would never have been adopted.
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    How often do you dust?

    I'm a lazy slob who gets Natasha to do the dusting for me, once a week on the ground floor and every other week on the upper two.
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    Occam's Shave Cream and the Doctrine of Astrology

    Surely Ockham's shaving cream would be that which lubricates his Razor, wouldn't it? So it would be something that eases the identification of elements that are redundant in a hypothesis (the razor itself being: entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate, or words to that effect). Something...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    You know perfectly well the difference between guesswork and evidence. You just don't like the evidence, so you try to ignore it in order to pretend it is guesswork.
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    How often do you dust?

    How's the mould? Still gone or is it coming back?
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Yes well I am more impressed by concrete steps in understanding how each of the necessary elements could have arisen. The membrane question intrigues me. Later Addendum: I have found this rather nice piece of research which, like the one we have been discussing on nucleotide synthesis, has...
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    How often do you dust?

    Someone tell the Baha'is. ;)
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    OK I agree with your first part but then your post dissolves into "hand-waving". There are massive challenges outstanding to work out how, having got nucleotide molecules, they came to be polymerised into a sequence that triggers transcription into proteins - and all the rest of it: the...
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    Alabama Supreme Court declares frozen embryos are legally children

    For some reason I keep reading the title of this thread as "Alabama Supreme Court Declares Frozen Embryos are Chicken". Perhaps I'm confusing Alabama with Kentucky, or maybe it's word association to do with "Frozen". Either way, or indeed the correct title itself, this has that special "Only...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Indeed it was, very much so, which is why the breakthrough in synthesising them was so significant.
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Yes, but that is replication of RNA, presumably by stringing together nucleotides in the right order, rather than replication of the nucleotides themselves from starting materials, e.g. one guanine base nucleotide molecule self-catalysing copies of itself.
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Plus, in my view, the chance to go forwards, backwards, compare what was said on different pages, etc., without the tedium of trying to rewind to a point you can't quite identify, then wind on to where you think you were........ With technical stuff I usually find I need to do that quite a bit...
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