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Recent content by aeonian_mist

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    Are scientists stupid or is there a conspiracy

    Understanding of genetics and molecular biology is possible without having to pay thousands of dolalrs for the degree. It just takes a persistent mind, a few good web sites and/or overpriced college text. Although I do agree with your implicit point- A lot of the Creationist objections of...
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    Taking Evolution Seriously

    If you do have the time, I think you should also read up books/arguments against evolution. A pre-requisite of handeling any debate well is understanding the rationale and support for both sides of the debate. Also, on the personal level, accepting evolution and rejecting strict creationism...
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    Taking Evolution Seriously

    Most Stephen Jay Gould books should be able to provide both an entertaining and an informative look at ToE. http://www.talkorigins.org is good The best sorce, as suggested in an earlier post, is probably a college-level textbook on general evolution. It would provide both a unified and...
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    Is the Destruction of our Environment Immoral?

    I'm not a Christan but I'll offer my 2-cents on the issue. I'm probably either slightly right or left of center on the political issue of the environment (depending on the specific issue). As a moral relativist, I believe that whether or not "destruction of the evironment" is moral depends on...
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    Yet more questions for YECs

    I have several things about this: 1.) Firstly, the convincing thing about a comparison between ape and human chromosomes isn't that they're similar- but how they're similar. The shared similarities of chromsome 22/23 of apes and humans are different in such a way that can only be explained by...
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    How does it fit together?

    Incest wouldn't have been a problem for Adam and Eve's kids if neither Adam or Eve carried any detrimental recessive alleles.
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    Evolution true or false?

    I think what what you're getting at is that there's no one observation that can entirely discredit The Theory of Eovlution (ToE). I think you're more or less right. However, this is only the case because there is so much in suport of Evolution. Ondoher provided a nice list of just some of the...
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    [/color] I was under the impression that star formation worked a little like London Dispersion forces: In a mass of erratic, random particles- imbalances will occur by chance. With the case of a nebula cloud, an imbalance in the concetration of hydrogen molecules per volume will occur. This...
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    Gotcha. Thansk for the detailed explination. I'm only a physics-deprived molecular bio major. =P Makes sense- thanks.
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    Okey dokey. Then what's the physical entropy of the 2nd Law of TD?
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    How so? My idea of entropy is this: The greater the number of potential configurations, the greater the entropy. A sun's gravity fixes some of its composite molecules. As a result, these moleucles aren't really free floating. This idea is probably clearest when we consider a star's core...
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    I don't think this is the case. Dust and scattered hyrodgen atoms seem to have more entropy than a sun. At the very least, because of the structural elements of a sun, its component hydrogen molecule possess less configurational possiblities than ambient hydrogen molecules wizzing about in a...
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    I think this explains the conservation of energy, but not how order is arrived from disorder. Maybe. I'm just hoping that my understanding of the 2nd Law of TD isn't too layman-ish. =/
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    Butchery of the laws of thermodynamics

    This brings up a point I've been pondering for a while. Suns form when scattered hydrogen molecules are pulled together via gravity to form a condensed ball. If the protostar is massive enough, nuclear fusion is triggered. The event of scattered hydrogen molecules forming a condensed star...
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    Evolution true or false?

    I second that motion. =P