Recent content by Hel

Clearly they were in your bed. Scuba diving. :biggrin: :o Think of the implications this has for Shrodinger's cat! Documenting situations like these objectively is pretty much impossible.

The proper way? Investigate the subject and see if we can't find the answer. Then we can deal with it through what we've observed. :D I didn't say it explicitly, but I intended to communicate that nobody has the answers. This includes people of all religions. I'm certainly not saying that we...

actually my point was that everybody, creationist, evolutionist, apathetic, whatever, are going to have to accept that they aren't going to know everything.

There are still things we don't know about some systems. Maybe I'm just uninformed, but as far as I know we have no idea how operons that regulate enzyme production could have evolved such a complex, integrated system through mutations and natural selection. We don't even know how chaperonins...

I forgot to say in my last post: Law is a deterrent, but not nearly as effective as other deterrents that you mentioned in your post. As for trying to determine how many people would do something if it weren't against the law, I suppose looking at Holland might be an idea, as many things are...

I think the laws are a deterrent. Well actually, not so much the laws themselves but the enforcement. That is, I generally prefer cops not initiating conversations with me. In a town near where I live, picking a sign off the sidewalk while taking a stroll and moving it out of the way...

I know! As a kid I always planned that my night job when I grew up would be writing deep and meaningful essays and posting it online like Valentine and Peter did, receiving fame and influence. And then blogs became commonplace. It's a good thing the world isn't that easily manipulated.

Latin. A springboard to learning any latin-based language out there. If you were a biologist it would help binomial nomenclature and lots of terminology make sense.

I owe you an apology for misunderstanding your point. Sorry I didn't make myself clear. I didn't say evolution had a preconceived end. My point was that adaptations have a practical end result. Pandas having a bit of bone sticking out of their hand is an adaptation that has a purpose--to help...

Not tested, but observed: There are lots of definitions for design. Two from dictionary.com that are relevant: 2. to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. 17. adaptation of means to a preconceived end. I think it can be agreed that the 17th definition is found in nature...

It's something that doesn't have a definitive answer and therefore people use it as an argument. People are curious and want to know why. So far no research has been done about this--it's rather abstract to begin with. Science says to make observations and form a hypothesis... to investigate...

Some say that it doesn't make sense that we would place value in beauty if we evolved. Creationists argue that beauty is something we appreciate because a creator instilled it in us.

LOL! Making us deuterostomes. It shows a lack of understanding of the concept of intelligent design. Intelligent design does not say that God would have created every single species. In fact, even conservative creationists with a strong science background will know that speciation...

Yeah... drinking soda will give you both water and sugar. Thus if you only need hydration, not the sugar, water is the best way to go. Better for your teeth too. There are lots of places where safe water sources are still rare. Even in more developed countries in Africa, you can get...

I suppose you could apply that to abiogenesis however? I'm not very familiar with that though, so I might be wrong.