Recent content by Ophiolite

Thank you Warden for attempting to explain to @QvQ why what they think of as a citation is very far from a citation. I did my best by providing an example, as you mentioned. I find this sort of exchange upsetting as often I wind up with a warning and nothing seems to happen to the other member...

You, and I do specifically mean you, have still chosen not to provide a proper citation to support your contention. That is an objective observation. I have offered possible explanations as to why you may have so chosen. The only potential insult within that list is the option of trolling. I do...

I think you are thinking of those wimps in Liverpool who have little idea of how to efficiently clog arteries. The people of Aberdeenshire introduced the deep fried Mars bar to the world and so brook competition from no one!

Wouldn't that involve leaving the US? :)

Since you are incapable of providing a citation for the research you claim supports your contentions and you are now indulging in strawmen and shifting goal posts I think it best to leave you to your delusions, misunderstandings, misinterpretations, confusions, trolling, or whichever of these...

Perhaps I was unclear. Let me be more specific: support your presently unsubstantiated claims with reference to peer reviewed papers, published in respected journals that demonstrate the validity of your claims. Otherwise we are done. Re: your last sentence. At least try to be original.

Well, that is nonsense. Humans have been successfully evolving animals and plants for centuries and millenia. These were done to improve certain characteristics of the target organisms: speed, or load capacity in horses; milk production in cows; food yield in crops. These programs were never...

What percentage of biologists do you think have actually attempted to "evolve" one species? Do you actually believe that experiments in hybridisation were intended to "evolve" a new species? If so, that would explain some of the errors in your thinking. Darwin made a number of predictioncs...

Meanwhile, back on topic: What I find initially puzzling and ultimately frustrating is the inability of the typical anti-evolutionist to appreciate, acknowledge, or even be aware of the vast amount of detailed, systematic, practical, peer reviewed research that supports even the tiniest aspect...

Either provide documentary evidence that such stabilisation is lacking, or shut up.

Warden, I understand your frustration, but out of respect for @Estrid and this thread, just leave him be.

Amendment to post #80, and a reminder of the danger of relying upon a memory from a brain subjected to three quarters of a century of entropy. The book I couldn't be fussed to locate was A Complete Course on Astrobiology, published by Wiley in 2007, ISBN: 978-3-527-40660-9. Here is the relevant...

Supporting the development of new technology that can be of benefit to the public, government and commercial companies is Facism? How so?

I have a book - that's my way of saying I really can't be fussed to look it our right now, but will do so if pressed - in which the author speaks of a science conference at which the attendees, biologists, biochemists, etc, were asked to offer their indivdual definitions of life. From around 120...

You will know this by now, but Spoiler alert for those who haven't viewed it yet. Look away now. Brutus was an honourable man.