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    It's Cross Country season!

    The key to running fast is - more running! Cross Country / Track is a unique sport in the sense that the success you get out of it is entirely dependent on the work you put in. If your son puts in consistent, hard work for four years (and not JUST in season), he can go places with the sport...
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    What if HIV doesn't cause AIDS?

    A couple things: 1) The initial jump from SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) to HIV is much more likely to be the result of someone getting infected while preparing bush meat than getting down-and-dirty with a monkey. Blood-blood transmission is way more likely to occur and monkeys were a...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Asherah And Archaeology

    The fact that it is from Wikipedia doesn't automatically make it unreliable. The key is know how to determine whether or not articles are accurate. If they don't have citations, don't trust them, and if they have citations, visit them! I find Wiki is a great starting point that usually...
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    [_ Old Earth _] The importance of knowing what you're talking about

    Barb/LK, have you guys read "Survival of the Sickest" by Sharon Moalem? I remember reading it in early undergrad and being stunned by the fact that I had never even considered why deleterious mutations (that affect prior to reproductive age) even hung around in our populations. One thing I...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Antibiotics are not going to cope much longer

    I know this is supposed to be a point about evolution, but I wouldn't mind trying to derail just one thread from the totally pointless debate of evolution vs. creation. A big thing physicians need to do is STOP inappropriately prescribing antibiotics. A big thing the public needs to do is a)...
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    [_ Old Earth _] God particle

    How on earth does the Higgs-Boson particle trouble evolutionary science?
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    Topic for Atheists

    It's strange that this argument is now being used in favour of Jesus being a real person while I've often seen many examples of "we didn't see it evolve so it's not proof". EDIT: Not that I don't think it's a valid argument. Jesus, from what we can tell, was likely a real individual and George...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Mimicking and Safety

    I know, I was trying to argue to his logic. From what I've seen, Async. considers new data only as an increase in genome size.
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    [_ Old Earth _] Mimicking and Safety

    Asyncriticus: How about: Gene duplication and then the mutation of that duplicated gene. How does that not introduce new information into a genome?
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    [_ Old Earth _] Mimicking and Safety

    Just because something could be advantageous to a species doesn't mean that it automatically will happen. A mutation has to happen (in this case many mutations would have to happen). Humans are so far diverged from species that camouflage/mimic that we would have to change a huge amount...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Mimicking and Safety

    That's a common misconception. There is no such thing as higher evolved or less evolved. Evolution has pushed each species to the point that they are the most fit for their niche/environment. Both man and the whale are mammals, but the whale is obviously way more fit for its environment...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Mimicking and Safety

    There is an excellent essay in Gould's "Ever Since Darwin" about the evolution of mimicry.
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    Advice for Your Teenage Self

    1) Be more confident. I don't think it would change much about my situation now, but it would have made highschool a lot more enjoyable. 2) Run more miles! Your aerobic base can never be too large! (Distance runner thing...)
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    The dinosaurs drank it, resulting in universal hyponatremia leading to massive extinction. Case closed. :chin
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    I would like to remind you about the difference between the word "theory" from a scientific perspective, and the word "theory" from a layman's perspective. Facts and proofs only exist in mathematics. In the physical sciences, the word theory is used to describe a hypothesis that has been...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    Please point out the irony for me. And what is this new future you speak of?
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    Of course not. There is a substantial difference between posting on an online forum and submitting an article for peer review. Like I said, it's about as accurate a secondary source as you are going to get, and it has the good forethought to provide hotlinks directly to the primary source...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    "basis for the terrestrial calibration data set beyond the beginning of the tree rings at 12.4 kyr"..... "INTCAL04 TERRESTRIAL RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION, 0–26 CAL KYR BP" It appears that they use tree rings up until 12400 years ago. I'm going to drop this topic here though, because...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    If your friends edited the radiocarbon dating article it would be changed back instantly. Nature did a study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html Wikipedia was as accurate as encyclopedia britannica for articles in the physical sciences. For the sciences...
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    [_ Old Earth _] Carbon dating in respect to Creation/ Darwinian Evolution

    "...can be dated independently by other methods such as examination of tree growth rings (dendrochronology), deep ocean sediment cores, lake sediment varves, coral samples, and speleothems (cave deposits)." - from Wikipedia. So it's definitely not cyclic.. and while I'm no expert on other...
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