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The "pro-evolution" crowd on this board is much larger than the creationist crowd, and has been for the entire time that I have been reading this forum (several years). We never "quiet down", it is creationists who flare up. First time here?

Arguments like this are the most vapid and shallow of any in the political global warming controversy. Gore has to weigh the pros and cons of his actions. He can either fly a private jet and contribute negligibly to CO2 emissions while telling as many people as possible about the need for...

Hold on, hold on, can I jump in here? I study China, and I was alarmed to see Merlin's claim that China has higher CO2 emissions than the United States. That is obviously not true, either in absolute or per capita terms. This was explained to Merlin, and yet she has not retracted her claim...

Please choose a different font color. I can't read anything that you are writing.

Wait, the timescale says both that it is based on sediments "found across the Earth" and also that there is no "global synthesis" for the layers. Since they apparently have gone to a bunch of places on the earth, why can't they go into more detail on the differences between areas? What area...

Work continues to be done on the function of non-coding DNA. Common descent hasn't blinded anyone to its potential functions, and research has continued to the present day. Therefore, your argument falls apart. "Junk DNA" was just a popular science buzzword.

Yes, it would. If he were a YEC, it would mean that his standards of logic and evidence are almost nonexistent. As a result, I wouldn't have faith in anything he said on any issue. I'm not judging his personality, or morality, just his ability to do his job. YECs are nice people, but would I...

This impression is wrong. Disabuse yourself of it immediately.

Well, there is no such term as "most evolved" within the Theory of Evolution. Seriously, the nature of evolution means that such a concept does not exist. So I know you couldn't be asking about that. As for "dominating animals", in some contexts, yes, we do. If you really care about putting...

What? Nothing you have said here makes any sense at all. The Big Bang and Evolution are nothing at all like your option #1.

To get back on topic and actually answer the OP's question... Lamarckianism is not supported by any evidence, as the inheritance of acquired characteristics is impossible. This theory is not a modern theory, and not a competitor for the best explanation of the available evidence. Punctuated...

Looking for strings of fossils that show nice, smooth gradual evolution like that can only lead to trouble. In the past, scientists believed horse evolution to be a perfect model of this type of evolution. In fact, our view was obscured by the passage of time, and horses had actually...

What did he do? Count every bone as a separate organ? A little googling brought up that there are only about 22 internal organs, plus some relatively small number of other organs. I don't think you could get to 180 using any definition of "organ" that I know of.

This is awfully spurious. Yes, the name "junk DNA" was used informally, but it is a long jump to say that the name completely polluted the mindset of scientists and prevented them from researching the matter thoroughly. For example, here is a link to an article from this year talking about...

Uh, this is probably just due to my own ignorance, but do humans even have 198 organs in total? Is that a typo?

Oh, don't get me wrong, her style of "discussion" infuriates me as much as it does you. I have had a run in or two with her on previous threads, and let's not even go into that post where she claimed that all atheists are obese alcoholics. I'm just trying to maintain some standard of common...

Hey guys, let's lay off Lynn here. I don't always understand what she is talking about either, but there is no need to insult her intelligence.

How is a "new metabolic pathway" not a new structure? Do you only consider something a "structure" if it is big and noticeable?

I enjoy the show, but I think that the "evolutionary" overtones are just nonsense. I usually tune out at the end of each episode when Mohinder starts blathering on about things that supposedly relate to evolution. It is nonsense like this that cultivates the ignorance of the public about...

lynn18 Are you going to respond to what I actually said? I can read the OP just fine for myself, thank you. This is a discussion board. You do not have the right to monopolize the discussion with endless repetition.