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I haven't posted frequently here lately because I had a lot of other things on my mind. One of which was securing a PhD-position somewhere. And now that worked out! So because people here are interested in science, I thought I'd celebrate here. I'm going to do research on the health effects of...

After Mark's poll, I have become curious on what people would have voted on the common ancestry issue in a less skewed poll. So here the question: The general definition of evolution is: A change in the allele frequencies of a population from generation to generation. Does "evolution" in...

There are many misconceptions about the twin nested hierarchy, what it shows and how it is arrived at. This thread is an attempt to clear some of these up. The main point of this thread will be to show that we can draw up such a tree without using evolution as reason for it. Rather, evolution is...

And another transitional found, this time in the bird lineage (courtesy to leoofno on skepticfriends.org). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13342029/ What I find a bit disappointing on this link, is that it states many times that it fills a transitional gap, but doesn't state why that is. Does...

I was hoping for someone to apply this to something like the bird wing. The above is nice, but I don't see how you could practically apply this to something of which we do not know whether it is designed or not.

I don't know whether someone already posted this, but there has been in a split in AIG. Some of the international branches (like Australia and Canada) have split from the USA branch and gone forward under the name Creation Ministries International (CMI). AIG had an article in this on March 5...

Please do!

Or actually, Angry Kid's father on evolution :) http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/angry_special3

There have been quite a lot of ID-threads recently, but I'm going to add one anyway. I'm doing this because I'm disagreeing with, what seems to be, a standard premise amongst those opposing ID. Many of the opponents of ID say that ID is unfalsifiable. However, I disagree for, what seems to...

In the thread scientific proof of flood I asked John16:2 to pick one specific example of things that give evidence of his assertions and to discuss it in depth. However, John16:2 did not want to do that, because, according to him, his threads keep getting closed by the moderators. So I decided...

It is sometimes asserted on this board that common ancestry in general, and of humans and chimpanzees in particular, is assumed rather than concluded. My aim in this thread is to address that criticism. I will do this by looking at the reasons why common ancestry is concluded and what...

An interesting idea for a thread occurred to me during the whole debate on Theresa Schiavo. Although this thread is not about her, I'll use the debate as a starting point. Now, a number of people have pointed out in various threads on mrs. Schiavo that we should keep her alive, even if she was...

Okay, so I would like to propose a thread, a similar version of which I've seen and posted in on another forum a while ago. The rules are simple: Post a description of weird animals or weird animal habits. I'm talking about the freaks of nature here, like this beauty. Creatures that make you...

I thought you guys might find this interesting. Especially in light of comments made by some of the creationists here that we can't learn apes to play doom. Well, maybe not, but apparently we can learn a batch of rat brain cells to play a flight simulator :)...

I saw this article in the Metro of the Boston area of today (07-09-2004 (PDF)). I have found some additional information, but couldn't find a wide coverage which states the same conclusions. Haven't looked at the Nature article yet, hope to do that this weekend. Meanwhile, do people here no a...

In this thread, Kdet makes the following statement: She, of course, thinks it should not be legalized because it is immoral. Although I would rather not see people becoming prostitutes, I would say that this is not the right way to handle the problem. Let me explain. I should probably say in...

I thought this would be interesting for here. I haven't read the article, only the few paragraphs which are here. Anyone who knows more about this?