Recent content by ganstaman

I have basically no artistic abilities. My 'rule' is that if I could reproduce a 'work of art' so that the average person couldn't tell which was the original (not that I'd make an exact copy, but do you really remember exactly which color is where in a Pollack?), then it's not art and doesn't...

You use multiplication whenever you want to find the overall probability for event A AND event B. So if you broke down a dihybrid into 2 monohybrid crosses, then you could multiply results there. This is just the basics of probability, unrelated to biology. X-inactivation doesn't seem...

Actually, the gambling age is 18, except maybe in Nevada or just Las Vegas. Most casinos have a 21 year old limit, but I think I've heard that that's so they can give out free drinks to everyone without carding. Still, it does seem rather stupid to me. Is an 18 year old to be considered old...

I heard Craig Venter talking about this on tv. He hopes we can make organisms that can produce fuels or energy for us, or that can break down toxins, or produce medicines, etc. Sure, the public will complain, but this really does have great promises if they can get the first few steps working...

The math part: the limit of 1/n as n approaches 0 is infinity, correct? However, this is very different than inccorectly stating that 1/0 = infinity. As for the rest of the first post, I think that makes no sense whatsoever.

Not that this has anything really to do with your point or you, but that is a very long sentence. I imagined you speaking it in just one breath, so as you got closer to the end you started speaking faster and your voice got higher pitched. It was entertaining. Now, to your actual point, there...

Exactly. There really isn't anything to debate here.

With the dice, there's really no reason we couldn't set up and solve equations for how they'd end up since we could find the forces for everything involved in the roll. Well, there is a reason actually -- it's just way too complex to actually do. So we assign probabilities to each outcome...

If the traits aren't linked, then just separate them. That is, with BbSs x BbSS, if you want to know the offsprings' chance of being B phenotype and Ss genotype, just do: - B phenotype is 3/4 (you said you already know this) - Ss genotype is 1/2 (I assume you can do this) Together...

Ah, reproduction was the word I wanted to use but somehow couldn't remember at the moment of my post. Not that it really matters anyway...

I don't know a thing about physics programming, so maybe I should be ignored. On the other hand, maybe not, since I'm just echoing what's already been said. There's some quote about Perl that I just can't seem to find that basically says that the problem with Perl is that if you write a...

If you really understand how fur could evolve, than you already understand the answer. It's the same principle all the time: some mutation occurs leading to an individual with a different phenotype. If this phenotype makes the individual more likely to procreate, then that genotype will...

Even if we have no explanation for QM, that doesn't mean it can't be right. We know that QM has a great predictive value for experiments, and so an interpretation for why this works isn't necessary for it to explain reality. Maybe you should just stop caring about why QM is the way it is. It...

This is the entire debate! You can't simply claim that your side is correct if we are to debate it. Those who support free will think your statement is correct, those who don't don't. Without evidence, I don't know how such a claim can just be made an expected to be believed.

False, unless you both live for an infinite amount of time. Very false. Clearly you've never seen my programs.