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Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Look into phylogenic trees, claudistic analysis. Basically, scientists look at the number of mutations between extant organisms to determine, using Occam's Razor, the best possible explanation for how the species diverged from one another. Yes, agreed...scientists study mutations all the time....and come up with explanations...but what do we know conclusively about evidence collected on natural mutations? It indicates species DEGENERATION with no record of of any ever improving

Reply to Doctors are Not Gods in Blogging JoeUser Forums

all doctors are gods.

Reply to How brain talks with itself in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Boo MIT. Yay Emory.

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]What is the common ancestor and how did it happen...what was/is the mechanism? It's not random mutation or natural selection. where's the proof of common ancestory?[/quote] Look into phylogenic trees, claudistic analysis. Basically, scientists look at the number of mutations between extant organisms to determine, using Occam's Razor, the best possible explanation for how the species diverged from one another.

Reply to Would You Shock A Stranger to Death If I Said So? Probably. in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Interestingly, this experiment was condemned as unethical. Afterwards, the people realized what they [I]would[/I] have done. But, I think everyone should have to go through this experiment, just so people are aware.

Reply to But...humans cause global warming! in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The only way to see if we are the cause of excess global warming is to control for the Earth's natural tendency to warm. Either way, we are the cause of a lot of global problems.

Reply to Bias in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The reason Science does not post creationist papers is that Science is peer-reviewed. Scientific peers, among them biologists who have accepted the theory of evolution for over 100 years, immediately see the faults in biblical stories. Ed Lewis was a famous geneticist (researched hox genes in drosophila) who published infrequently. But infrequent publishing is not the norm, not because to do so is lazy but because to do so usually means losing your job. It's a good thing Cal-Tech left h

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]WHAT?!?!?! Evidence, links, articles...I need to see where you got this idea. How are we fundamentally biologically different from animals?[/quote] “I like to be human because in my unfinishedness I know that I am conditioned. Yet conscious of such conditioning, I know that I can go beyond it, which is the essential difference between conditioned and determined existence…In other words, my presence in the world is not so much of someone who is merely adapting to something “extern

Reply to Why "Just a Theory" Pisses off Scientists in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Why are we questioning whether man can affect the environment? Ask the zoologist about our world's biodiversity. Ask him how inflexiblly time-consuming it is to replace a species lost to deforestation. CO2 emmissions are the topping on the cake. A point to fixate on in order to right your logic is what will happen if humanity continues to reproduce like we have been doing. It is arrogant to believe science can indefinately stymy the consequences. And Al Gore makes several valid points,

Reply to Why We Will Kill Ourselves in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

We will kill ourselves because after eons of tedious self-construction, our planet's ecological balance is as precarious as a super-saturated solution! ... and zombies too Selfish motives + delicate world = self-destructive world.

Reply to Global Warmng vs Oil Deposits in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]We are nowhere near the brink of global disaster as some would like us to believe, but without some serious examination of our wanton burning of carbon we could well take ourselves there over the course of the next century or two instead of the millions of years it's supposed to naturally take.[/quote] Given the uppermost point you allow, two centuries, global disaster is still very near. In the same time that America rose from squalor to prominence, the whole world will fall fro

What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Evolution can be defined as a change in alleic frequencies within a population over time. Thus, considering a small population of 100 sins players, we have two alleles, A and a . The allele A codes for a phenotype, something you can observe, and so does allele a. Since humans, like sins players, are diploid, meaning they have 2 of each chromosome,

Reply to Science Lesson From a Creationist in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The problem with stating what creationists believe and what they do not believe is that the group of creationists consists of a diverse array. Some creationists come from agricultural or "small town" backgrounds and have little idea of what a "vestifial" organ or of what "megaevolution" is. Some, like Francis Collins, are at the top of the scientific pecking order and have, liberal, but still creationist beliefs. The same applies to scientists. Some "scientists" have depressingly littl

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Wanna see a really cool perspective? I did some digging and came to someone who resembles my own viewpoint... the smartest man in the country, of course. http://www.ctmu.org/

Reply to Why Starcraft II will not live up to the greatest RTS of the past decade. in Everything Else Sins Forums

Nah, I changed my mind. Blizzard only messed up once, with Warcraft III, and that is because they tried to do something that just does not work... like communism. I feel they still accomplished all their goals with the game. It just was not fun. Hence the popularity of DotA. The rules of the game changed so that it could be fun. I think Blizzard will make a really fun and well-designed game, but I still look forward to sins's sequel. I hope they take a couple from Blizzard's book.

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]For everyone who says that evolution is a theory I must ask, do you mean macro or micro? At the microbiological level it has been proven. For those of you who DONT believe in fossil proof at the MACRO level it is still a theory. I for one believe in fossil proof.[/quote] Interesting you should bring up the difference between MACROevolution and MICROevolution. This is a key point that I think people are missing. Macroevolution adds the assumption that microevolution eventually amo

Reply to If you could re-make Sins, how would you? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]I'd steer away from the rock-paper-scissors balance and go for more unique factions. A TEC player shouldn't be able to win the game with the Advent by using similar (or in cases, the exact same) strategies. You know you get it right when players who do well with one race find the other races horribly confusing. Makes for much better balance arguments too[/quote] I agree. That is a great ideal. Unfortunately, balancing a game in that way requires a tremendous amount of time and ef

Reply to A plethora of Suggestions for balancing the game. :] in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote]And thus he resorts to terrorism.[/quote] [quote]please please please please please, from this point on, just everyone ignore him. When he stops getting attention he'll stop forcing people to scroll past his posts, taking space for good ones.[/quote] If by ignore you mean stop posting inflammatory comments like the one above, then I have to agree. Stop posting these, and we will have reached a solution.

Reply to Expelled: Is Intelligent Design a Science? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Intelligent design coincidentally forms the basis for the docrine of most popular religons. The hypothesis itself, while arguably untestable and therefore unscientific, can be defended. I might say that the hypothesis is indeed testible, only humanity severely lacks the capacity to test it. When the idea becomes more than what should be mentioned in a science class is when people put ID into their [I]religion's[/I] wagon. "See, ID might be true. Therefore EVERYTHING I have made up to go

Reply to 15 year old surgeon... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Meh, whatever. You don't need to be smart to be a surgeon, and every surgeon starts somewhere. Note that it helps to be raised differently (like that surgeon or the 15 year old in college). How much did [I]you[/I] learn from high school, anyway? That's what I thought.

Reply to Girls that play RTS? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Maybe I'm gay (this might be a bigger suprise to me than it would be to some of my more sarcastic opponents), but I do not think that girls are that much different. They do not play RTS's because we do not make them like we should.

Why Starcraft II will not live up to the greatest RTS of the past decade. in Everything Else Sins Forums

I bought Warcraft III on the first day it came out. I even got a cool action figure. But I really did not enjoy the game. It required far too much micromanagment, and I missed being able to amass knights and ultralisks. I built like 2 knights, and I reached "high upkeep" and "pop limit." In my opinion, Stardock is the wave of the future. While Blizz wastes its time giving people something they don't want, fewer units and more chances to screw up for stupid I-clicked-it-wrong reas

Reply to A little game of name-that-book, anyone? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote]Shylock I don't recall (unless you're talking Shakespeare's A Merchant of Venice), but Seldon's from the Foundation series.*edit* Wait, was that the Mule's name (Shylock)?[/quote] No, it was Merchant of Venice. "If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" The Mule's name? I don't recall. How about Gaia? That could be considered his name ;)

Reply to A Story that i made. in Everything Else Sins Forums

toot.

Reply to MINI-DUMP RANTS in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]I agree and I have stopped playing MP matches now. Until this is fixed I don't see why I should waste my time or my friends time. I surely hope they can fix this issue. My patience with PC gaming in general is getting thin these days due to this nonsense.[/quote] If you are playing with your friends you can try loading from a saved point.