Recent content by biology4life

The reason I originally asked was because I'd recently, in tinternet land, witnessed several exchanges between creationists and TEs. Whilst creationism doesn't deserve the time of day at least I got the idea. With the TEs I couldn't grasp what the role or need for their god was. I didn't...

As others have pointed out we don't. I would go as far as to say that it is extremly unlikly that any specimen is an ancestor, rather a lot are children for a start. As to the species and populations they represent it would be very difficult to demonstrate that that is the population from which...

Yeah that's a good idea I'm sure he'll drop everthing :roll: Just read Goynes comments in that car crash of a thread, I'll PM him later see if he would be interested.

Apart from satisfying some of my idle curiosity. I'm just interested in finding out some the detail in what some people believe, beyond the simple 'God guided it'. I'm not expecting or looking for any revelation of truth, or to win anyone over to atheism etc, just a better understanding of the...

Creationism is let's be blunt a croc(oduck) of shite and to me frankly rather boring. I do however have a certain curiostiy about what theistic evolutionists believe, and the range of that belief. I see no need for a god in the explanitory framework of evolutionary biology but I am genuine...

Re: Human Evolution Three Million Years Earlier Than Accepte Not sure where the article gets the 5mya figure as the currently accepted figure. When asked by student I normally answer (based on my reading) most likely not less than 5 or more than 10, probably around 7mya for the human/chimp...

This all rang a bell. I have a memory of some research showing that fathers absent for long periods e.g soilders, salors, offshoreworkers having more offspring of one gender, can't remember which way round. However a quick trawl of the google machine turns up nowt so it migth be just a load...

Partially inspired by http://forums.leagueofreason.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5682 It occurs to me that no theist should use the 'fine tuning' argument against atheists as it is the theist's model of the universe that needs the ultimate in fine tuning. It is one thing for your model to need a...

It would still be unfair 'Judaism' would be the equivalent. The word 'eradicated' does send out all the wrong messages, frankly I'd like it if Islam didn't exist but that does not mean I want the people who are Muslims not to exist. The same goes for Christianity, Hinduism etc. I include the...

Gun' I only discovered this morning how easy it is to turn powerpoint slides into a 'movie'.

Like the sub-forum says, shameless self-promotion. Just knocked up a video with a bit about Dunning and Kruger's work and how I think it applies to creationists.

Is there a term, label, whatever for asymmetrical agnosticism? What I mean by asymmetrical is that if a god or gods did exist you could possibly (but not necessarily) know it (as much as you can know anything) I'm thinking giant floaty head in the sky or the like. However if a god or gods...

Mr Wake, I can only answer your question if you are cleared for BLUE HADES.

As others have pointed out you have missed two key things about meiosis which is the name given to the process by which gametes (sex cells like sperm and eggs in us humans) are produced. Meiosis consists of two cell divisions meiosis I and meiosis II. I'll follow the formation of sperm as egg...

Kepler may well have been religious, he may also been inspired by religion but that is not quite the same as saying religion advanced science. Maybe this is just how we differ in how we understand the OP question, I say that religion has never advanced science because all scientific advancement...