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Recent content by RedAndy

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    Creating a Cake - Genesis 1 Style

    I think what we can conclude from this thread is that arguing with AV is hardly a cakewalk.
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    The Conservatives

    Well, they occupy an "extreme" end of the spectrum of opinion on British participation in the EU .... i.e. that we shouldn't. How else should we define extremism?
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    The Conservatives

    I often wonder why it is the far right that seem to gain from the failings of the centre, rather than the left. The only thing I can come up with is that, after the problems in the 1970s with widespread strike action and so forth, the Left has been to some extent discredited. New Labour had to...
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    Richard Dawkins Vs. Priests

    Well, firstly we don't know for sure what parameters are required for life to arise. What we do know is that all of the things you specify may well be required for life as we know it to arise. It's perfectly possible that another set of conditions, somewhere else, could bring forth life...
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    Gotta wonder why god put these on some snakes

    True, but the Creationist appropriation of the term "macroevolution" is defined so vaguely as to be useless. Like "kind" or other terms they pretend to use. Basically in Creationist-speak "macroevolution" is evolution above any level that can possibly be observed (or at least, not waved away by...
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    Gotta wonder why god put these on some snakes

    Kind of. But remember that macroevolution (which is defined as evolution above the species level) requires speciation, which itself requires a particular set of circumstances to happen (reproductive isolation between populations). Your analogy is better if you imagine yourself along with a...
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    St George's day!

    The front of my local newspaper this week had an article about a proposed St. George's Day celebration. The image showed two of the organisers of this celebration standing underneath a Union Jack. I don't have a problem with people celebrating, but they should at least make sure they're...
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    Interesting Gallup Poll on evolution

    If the question was phrased that way, I don't "believe" in evolution either. I accept it as a scientific theory, I agree with its conclusions, I regard it as an accurate and useful explanation for the diversity of life. But I don't "believe" in it. There's nothing to believe - it's just a case...
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    People are Not Animals!

    I'm sure it's already been said, but even if we were to find a fine-scale series of fossils, we would not be able to verify that they are in fact descended from one another. Creationists could still argue that God created each as a separate "kind."
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    People are Not Animals!

    A (Creationist) friend of mine once said to me in an email (quoting from memory): "Transitorial [sic] lineages have to be mapped at every stage of development in order to provide a meaningful sequence." In other words, he wants an unbroken chain of ancestors and descendants from A. afarensis to...
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    New fossil shines light on bat evolution

    See you in twenty years' time.
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    New fossil shines light on bat evolution

    I must say I'm surprised - no one has yet responded with "Well, before you had one gap - now you have two. SILLY EVILUTIONIST JUST DOUBLED YOUR WORKLOAD LOL!!!!1!!11!eleven!"
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    Moonlancers "I am god" Challenge

    *Points to Babel Fish* You know the rest. Well, That About Wraps It Up For God.
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    Why Can't Science Explain Everything?

    There isn't any. That's what Occam's razor is for.
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    Say a young student wanted to know more about somthing...

    Actually, what RichardT's OP demonstrates is that using Google for academic research can be very, very bad. It's no surprise that Creationist websites feature high in the ranks of Google's "geologic column" searches, because there are so many Creationist websites. But, popularity does not a...