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Governments can't beat drug dealers, but Capitalism can.
I make this point not to be a dick, but because its an important point to be made; evolution is exactly analogous to every other scientific theory. What does that mean? ...We will never, ever know everything about the universe, so scientists will always, always say the 'theory of evolution' and the 'theory of gravity' and the 'theory of atomic structure', meaning that contradictory and clarifying evidence should always be sought out to form a better explanation...
Evolution is the best we've got; it explains things that have happened and predicts new things we're still finding (in molecular biology, for example). It is a valuable tool in understanding where WE as animals came from, and what 'life' is. And thats all it is... the sum of our rational understanding of life.
What kind of things don't we understand about life? Well nobody (in science) has quite figured out how life got here on Earth, but it stands to reason that if the development of new lifeforms from other lifeforms over time doesn't necessitate a creator than maybe we can keep pushing back the curtain and see that the first exceedingly simple bit of amino acids with a layer of bubbles around it that replicated and divided into more bubbles with more organized amino acids (or whatever) didn't need a creator... but this is well beyond the current theory of evolution.
In reply to this comment by Quboid:
I seemed to spark off something in the thread too and I've clarified and apologised for my misleading comment. As I said in that thread, I do believe in evolution, I just also believe we don't know all that much about the universe yet.
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I'm not going to go into it, but towards your second point... to understand what has come before you, design your own investigation/experiment and gather evidence to test assumptions made on previous findings. This is all that Darwin did, this is all that Einstein did, this is all the Newton did. If you drag yourself through Darwin's wikipedia post, for instance, you'll see that the idea of evolution was around for a long time, and all he did was take a few disparate sources like Malthus' book on populations and his own finding of how species are similar to neighboring species in different parts of the world (but different from animals in the same climates in other parts of the world) and figured out a simple method for evolution... 'natural selection'.
Since the time Darwin and Alfred Wallace were around there have been incredible modifications to the story, but 'evolution by natural selection' is still the foundation for all of biology. Not only is it still the foundation, our understandings based on evolution are actively used predictively in research to form hypotheses, design experiments, and even predict things like the development of bacterial and viral strains.
Since the time Darwin and Alfred Wallace were around there have been incredible modifications to the story, but 'evolution by natural selection' is still the foundation for all of biology. Not only is it still the foundation, our understandings based on evolution are actively used predictively in research to form hypotheses, design experiments, and even predict things like the development of bacterial and viral strains.
In reply to this comment by Quboid:
Great ending, I was worried the title was flame bait.
A couple of points:
1) I don't think it's established that it's a snake. Pretty sure it's a talking animal so this is a technicality, but that it's a snake is a myth. I think QI covered this and they are actually are beyond question.
2) I don't believe in evolution. OK, I agree in general, but does it explain what it aims to accurately and completely? I very much doubt it. In fact I'd be amazed if the original work wasn't mostly discredited by now, just like much of Newton's work, Einstein's work and so on. Darwin's work was certainly a big step in the evolution of knowledge
If you think about it, it's arrogant to the point of ludicrous to presume this generation has all the big stuff figured it. I'm sure as hell* not a Christian or Creationist, I just think science is a work in progress and we're at a pretty early stage. I hope so! I quit Christianity when I grew out of invisible friends, but I didn't become an atheist just to join other zealots. Science is our friend, but keep questioning.
* Pun / Ironic choice of phrase intentional.
could you please change the title/description of your post
http://www.videosift.com/video/Female-Train-Conductor-Leaves-Mic-On
Thanks:)
I know this isn't the Sift party line but I agree with the Fox puppet. Paul is a great candidate, I'd vote for him if I was American, but the sad truth is, he won't win any elections. He won't win any primaries. Electability might be a stupid phrase but the puppet is right, Paul ain't got it. He's smart, logical and consistent - that's not what the voters want!'
Don't you see the chicken/egg situation with RP though? The media is saying "he's not viable" and the people are listening. Imagine if the media did a 180 and painted him as the righteous underdog...
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“Upvote for awfulness on so many levels, people should watch it as an educational tool. Utterly unconvincing as a "down to earth" attempt, stupid as a woman's strength song and just plain sexist against women. Hey Aguilera, are you wearing those shorts because they are comfy? Right, not use your sex appeal to sell a few more songs, no. And what's the deal with treating yourself as a minority? Gender is split 50-50, so why are you referring to men's stereotyped* attitudes as if they were universal? Anyway, if our "words don't mean a thing", why did you do a song about it?
* If a guy as 3 girls then he's the man? Really? I'd consider that guy to be a sleazy bastard.
No wonder I haven't heard of Lil Kim for years, she bet her fame on this shit.”
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“PIN. It's PIN, for Personal Identification Number. It's not PIN Number, that means Personal Identification Number Number, which makes very little sense. You'd think these experts would know the difference but even they got it wrong most of the time.
(sorry, pet hate)”
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“Meh, I've done heli flying like this in MS Flight Simulator with all realism options on full ...
... oh wait ...
... he's doing this deliberately?? Wow.
Seriously, that is amazing. How can a helicopter fly upside down? Isn't the rotor going to work against it? That thing isn't going to drop like a brick, it's going to drop a lot faster!”