Recent content by Nooj

You'd also need some sort of homone-based system where infectees recognise each other and not attack themselves, like in the movie. Someone suggested retrotransposons that insert into the genome and make their chemicals.

I'm debating with a global warming skeptic, and I'm pretty new at this. He's pulled http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/last_2000_yrs.html" graph showing the temperature from the last 2000 years and said that temperatures have previously risen faster and by greater numbers than the...

Indeed it does. Thank you. I find it hilarious that Paul Marmet's alternative to the Big Bang theory is the Plasma Universe hypothesis which is in no way compatible to a young Earth perspective. The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

Answers in Genesis is a well known young-earth creationist website that says the Universe is less than 6000 years old. I was referred to this article: http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v18/i2/echoes.asp" by a creationist whom I was debating with. Now, my major interest is in biology and I was...

First of all, I'd like to thank each and everyone of you for helping me. Judging from some of the creationist's responses, appealing to authority won't help me anyway. They're using Walt Brown, an engineer (not that I've got anything against engineers!) as proof that a scientist supports the...

Most methods of dating the Earth come from radiometric dating or something that has to do with half-lives, radioactive decay and isotopes. Radiometric dating is reliable, accurate and about the only methods that can go back far enough. There are shorter-span dating methods that focus on...

Helloooo. I'm debating a creationist and he consistently is bringing up the laws of thermodynamics to try and 'prove' that evolution could have never happened. It doesn't matter how many times others and I try correcting him. He reverts back to his warped version of thermodynamics, stubbornly...

Thank you all for your help. Perhaps the Egyptians were just really good builders. I mean, it's not like ancient civilisations were totally inept or anything.

http://www.europa.com/~edge/pyramid.html I have a great deal of confidence in the ancient Egyptians, but not this much. I'm sure that some of these facts must be exaggerated, but I'm not much of a debunker. Some help would be appreciated.