28 June, 2009
Moffett Field Young Eagles Rally
Said and I flew over to Moffett Field in Mountain View on Saturday to participate in the EAA Chapter 62 Young Eagles Rally there. 258+ kids were given airplane rides by 29 pilots in their planes. Many happy faces. EAA 62 did a great job and I have to thank AOPA insurance for their help getting the insurance paperwork out for several of the pilots to be able to fly at this event on short notice. It went well for me and those I talked to. The appreciation from the parents was pretty gratifying. I usually tell them it is my pleasure and probably the only meaningful use I have for my expensive hobby. Showing kids the world from above and that someone like them can fly an airplane is very meaningful.
21 June, 2009
Shit. Happy Father's Day.
They told me Friday afternoon that I have one or more people to be told they are going to get laid off. Thanks for spoiling my weekend. I don't know who they may be, but I can guess. Damn it. They don't deserve this. There isn't anyone in my group who should lose their job.
17 June, 2009
A little sympathy for the snookered : Pharyngula
"I sympathize because they are all missing the awesomeness of reality for the awfulness of some narrow Bronze Age theocratic bullshit.
But there are also some for whom I have no sympathy at all.
I have zero sympathy for intelligent people who stand before a grandiose monument to lies, an institution that is anti-scientific, anti-rational, and ultimately anti-human, in a place where children are being actively miseducated, an edifice dedicated to an abiding intellectual evil, and choose to complain about how those ghastly atheists are ruining everything.
Those people can just fuck off."
But there are also some for whom I have no sympathy at all.
I have zero sympathy for intelligent people who stand before a grandiose monument to lies, an institution that is anti-scientific, anti-rational, and ultimately anti-human, in a place where children are being actively miseducated, an edifice dedicated to an abiding intellectual evil, and choose to complain about how those ghastly atheists are ruining everything.
Those people can just fuck off."
13 June, 2009
Short test flight
Went on a short test flight, broken clouds at 2500', pretty nice. :-)
They had replaced a couple of exhaust studs on the engine, just making sure everything still worked. .8 hours on tach, 8.9 gallons of gas.
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11 June, 2009
Point of Inquiry: Cosmic Dice
In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Dr. Jeffrey Schweitzer argues that adopting the scientific view of human origins has implications for understanding that morality is a consequence of our biology. He argues that religion puts humanity on a pedestal, and why that is dangerous. He contends that religion has failed to morally guide humanity, and he attacks religion for impeding the moral development of humanity and for causing much human suffering. He explains that religion results from fear of death, an attempt to understand the universe, achieve social cohesion and political power, and an attempt to control our fate by appealing to gods. But he argues that in the age of science, these reasons are no longer compelling. He denies that science has become a religion in itself. He explores if and how religion and science ask different questions, and if science can answer the existential questions that religion attempts to answer. He argues that life has no ultimate meaning, and that he derives this fact from science, while denying that this leads to nihilism. He discusses existentialism and contrasts it with his scientific worldview. He argues against the concept of free will as a false concept of religion, and discusses the implications this has for moral responsibility. He talks about the biological component to human morality, and defends his position from the charge of moral relativism, while admitting a kind of cultural relativism. He discusses Social Darwinism, and distinguishes core values from social values that progress over time. He explains components of his moral view, and compares his view with scientific or secular humanism. And he suggests that humanity is at a crossroads where our continued survival is uncertain, and describes the kind of behaviors consistent with a natural ethic that may be key to humanity's surviving the future.
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Why are so much irritated when the SCIENTIFIC INVALIDITY of evolution is questioned?
where is the scientific evidence for evolution? don't say THERE ARE MANY EVIDENCE , show us the evidence instead of Barking there are....there are...there are such and such evidence , prove it scientifically rather than getting irritated
Your alternative is nothing. It predicts or explains nothing. You can only say god did it. Sorry, that just isn't good enough. And we are angry at the stupidity of all religion and the waste of time, resources, and lives that the powerful in religion expend to maintain their power.
WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION THEORY? IF U DON'T HAVE DON'T POTRAY 'DARWINISM' AS A SCIENTIFIC FACT....
WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION THEORY? IF U DON'T HAVE DON'T POTRAY 'DARWINISM' AS A SCIENTIFIC FACT....
You don't have scientific evidence for the theory...if u have SHOW US ...
Sorry... Evolution is fact. Get over it. Open your eyes to the real world. It is much lighter out here in the real world where you can see real meaning, real morals, real purpose in life, being your own self instead of being controlled.
Do animals have morals? do animals have ethical principles in life?what is the real meaning of life for animals?
For all your PROOFs I WILL wrote you soon.....i have got exams....
if some one goes to GYMNASIUM his muscle mass increases due to the stress ....but he never transform to another specie...humans are always human...
And I hate to break it to you, but you're being controlled far more than the "Darwinists" you're rallying against.
So far, your responses read like thus!
"Show me the evidence! You don't have no stinking evidence! What's that you have evidence? Well, all your evidence is nothing compared to my ignorance!"
You sound just like a thousand other robots who will look reality in the face then turn away and proudly proclaim your ignorance.
Since this stupid blog won't allow pasting, I have to type the whole thing in. Since it also won't allow cutting, you'll have to type it out.
Links: https://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html
or Google: lenski evolution
to get:
https://www.msu.edu/~lenski/sciencearticle.html
Where it is specifically stated that this result was NOT adaption because genetically the bacterial had changed substantially and was no longer the same.
There is not a "single most important proof of evolution". There is a preponderence of evidence from many branches of geology and biology.
Sure animals have morals. Most kill only to eat or protect their species, they have community, care for young, train young. Meaning is simple, survive and reproduce. But that requires cooperation and teamwork in many ways. The mean and stupid die off. Human morals are based on the same basics. Survive and reproduce. Since we are not strong, fast, or toothy, we have to cooperate, team up, think it out to survive. Our morals are to relieve suffering and give happiness because those who do survive longer, the mean and stupid die off. All the other crap about pleasing god is just made up stuff by those in power to control the mob and keep women in control.
Look around man... evolution explains a lot.
How did cells and tissues acquired feeling of compassion?
why should animals show compassion to the young one, after all they should kill them to survive and you know that only strong survive according to your theory...
Did Jack fruit, apple ,lemon, grapes,bananas, coconut, mango etc...etc where created through mechanism of ADAPTATION/
Did lotus,rose flower, lilly, Dahlia...etc...etc...where all created through the mechanism of ADAPTATION?
Did ORANGE where evolved from LEMON just ECAUSE THEY LOOK SIMILAR?
Mercedez E-class looks similar to Mercedez S-class-- they where made individually NOT EVOLVED FROM one another...
you should answer to one of the anonymous question above
Tom bring us your single most important proof of evolution? A classic evolutionary observation and experiment which proves beyond doubt evolution occured. Dont confuse people by generalized talk on subjects.
The key board you are typing looks similar to most of the other keyboard , but they where not evolved, they where made by conscious people not just formed one day !!!!
I think Tom will never answer to the questions...
Give evidence .........
A flower doesn't compete with it's own kind. That is morality at a basic level.
The keyboard comment... we are talking biology, not mechanical engineering!
The nylon thing... click my name for a wiki article. They have done it with other bacteria.
You all display a fundemental lack of understanding about evolution and natural selection. Here is a start:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnzmxeZJeho
You all cling to your fairy tale that a desiger designed you. You need that belief to feel like there is a reward after this life. Grow up and get over it. You have more important things to do.
I DO look around and I am in AWE of the physics, chemistry, and biology I see around me. I see NO evidence of ANY god. Nothing suggests there is a god around. If he does exist, he is a major fuck up. No wonder he is hiding, I'd be embarrassed by this mess he made as well.
Evolution doesn't create design! There is NO design. Evolution selects for optimal survival and reproduction, that is it. There is no intent in evolution. The organism is not "trying" to be anything different. That is why some organisms don't change for millions of years, if there is no stress (competition for food or mates), then change doesn't get selected over the old organism. Sharks do well as they are because there is plenty of food and no real competition in the sea.
"align in perfection"??? there is nothing perfect in any biology... you have a nerve that goes from your brain, around your heart and aorta and back up to your larynx, that is perfection? Why would it do that. Because as you evolved, that nerve had to stay connected, it couldn't suddenly jump across your aorta and go directly to yuor larynx. Then there are your eyes with backward retinas or the fact that our veins clog up with cholesterol as you age. Organs we don't need, genes that are garbage and turned off. Look, I cannot in this small space describe how our nervous system evolved into what we have today... there is a very good book that pulls it all together with current information: "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne. He is an actual scientist, unlike Mr Yahya.
Biology is very messy because of evolution. Each step has to build on what was there previously. There are no jumps, if it wasn't there before, it can't exist now. Each change is small and if it is sucessful, is passed on.
So your alternative is some creator designed animals and placed them here. When? Why aren't there any horse fossils in the dinosaur ages? Why aren't there dinosaurs now? How come bats, humans, dogs, whales all have the same basic parts? Head, neck, two arms (forelegs), two legs (back legs), eyes, internal organs, cellular chemistry, genetic code? Wouldn't a designer design better for perfection instead of using the same parts over and over again? You say they are all unrelated but they have the same parts. Couldn't cheeta legs be optimized for running better? Have you ever watched magic tricks? Why are our minds so easily tricked? Why do bats have solid bones instead of lighter hollow ones like birds? This creator guy seems kind of sloppy. There is absolutely nothing perfect in his creations. Definately not in humans.
Of course evolution unifies the biologies! It explains how we find fossils where we do, why embryos are the way they are, why biochemistry does what it does, why the genetic codes vary as they do and are so similar among all animals.
What fossils were suppressed? Fossils that prove WHAT? A horse with a dinosaur? A 3 Million year old human? What? Ridiculous.
Look. I can't help you if you don't even try to understand, but then you don't want my help and will continue to live in the dark ages, your loss. Science and medicine will leave you behind. The discoveries based on or aided by evolution happen daily. You are welcome to wallow in your creationist beliefs, but you will be left behind, you won't understand why, you'll resent it and claim conspiracy. Oh! You seem to be there now! Very sad waste of obvious talent.
No, I am not retarded. There is plenty of evidence for evolution as I have stated over and over again. Why is it not science???? The theory explains what we see. We test the theory. It passes (like finding the right fossils in the right places). We use the theory to predict outcome. It happens as predicted (like stressing a bacteria to change what it eats). HOW IS THAT NOT SCIENCE!?!?!?
A flower doesn't compete with it's own kind. That is morality at a basic level.
According to the Evolution theory it is the basic priciple to compete to survive and to form a new species of living things.....THEN IF NOT FLOWER DID'T COMPETE HOW WAS IT FORMED ACCORDING TO EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISM?
Then what about those fruits? what evolutionary MECHANISM lead to the Formation of JACK FRUIT, BANANA, ORANGE,APPLE,LEMON,STRAWBERRY,GRAPES,WATER MELON, MANGO.......etc....etc....?
Don't say TOMATO EVOLVED TO APPLE or like LEMON EVOLVED TO ORANGE just because they have similarities.....
#The keyboard comment... we are talking biology, not mechanical engineering!
Evolutionist always compare HUMAN BODY to machines, do you know that ? Human bodies functions are divided according to various systems like NERVOUS SYSTEM DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, REPRODUCTIVE SYSTE, etc...etc...all these system works in a MECHANISED fashion, they cordinate each other,if anything happens to one of the system the entire FUNCTIONING is affected.....the biological function act in a MECHANISED way....please read GUYTON'S physiology Medical textbook and UPDATE YOUR knowledge...
IF KEY BOARDS CANNOT ORGANISE THEMSELVES THEN HOW CAN INANIMATE THINGS CAN GIVE RISE TO THE ANIMATE OBJECTS BY THEMSELVES?(The FIRST cell-according to evolutionary mechanism was formed out of COINCIDENCE)
#You all cling to your fairy tale that a desiger designed you. You need that belief to feel like there is a reward after this life. Grow up and get over it. You have more important things to do.
Its you clinging to your IMAGINARY STORIES that life came out of chance, and if you are suffering INSOMNIA..i prescribe you to read the stories of ''ORIGIN OF SPECIES'', you will get enough sleep...
For your kind information...
MEDICAL SCIENCE IS GETTING UPDATED EVERY DAY....EVERY YEAR MEDICAL BOOKS ARE GETTING UPDATED DUE TO THE ACCUMULATION OF KNOWLEDGE....SO I REQUEST YOU TO UPDATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE and please don't LIVE WITH YOU 18TH CENTUARY KNOWLEDGE.....keep updating
If you need to Know anything about NEW BOOKS in Medicine i would be pleased to inform you...
During embryogenesis: The embryo makes EYES AND EARS...how did embryo came to know that there is OBJECTS outside the womb to SEE and sounds OUSTSIDE to hear?
Was it out of COINCIDENCE?
YOU SEE KEY AND LOCK CANNOT BE THE PRODUCT OF CHANCE!!!!!
Apes fought for survival to become human beings? lol poor logic man
You need to read a lot more about evolution before you argue, your level of knowledge is not even comparable to high school kids. Though evolution is not proved as of yet and it lack evidences your understanding of evolution is very bad. Don't read Harun Yahya's books to learn about evolution, use other standard publications or you can even google 'evidences against evolution'. That will give you more scientific explanation for why evolution is not true. Do proper research before you comment or post and don't attack anyone one personally. Way to go bro.
Good luck.
NB: I don't believe in evolution
I READ ALL THE BOOKS...ONE THAT IS SUPPORTING ...denying,
But i don;t find any evidence for EVOLUTION THEORY and it is just AN ASSUMPTION without any evidence...
I didn't attack anyone personally without any reason, he just stopped in commenting about evolution,I WAS DOING A RESEARCH ON EVOLUTION,but i find evolutionist to be CLOSED MINDED people....
Yes...i have been reading since 9 years...
one more thing PZ Myers has blocked me permanetly in commenting his blog..
#Tom
he will never give a proper explanation to the questions.....he is trying to escape by giving UNSCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION....
#46 chromosomes...yes i have read this one in Harun yahya's Miracle of DNA--result of human genome project
please take care of #TOM...i will be busy with my exams for few days.....
More and more examples of such proteins are being found. Although the ape and human are very similar such differences demolish to rubble any proposal that species are related based on molecular systematics.
Why would a protein be closer in pigs and humans.
Did one of our ape-man father's commit adultery and screwed one from the line of evolving pigs, the product piggy of which inherited that gene.
You have a long way to go. Genes dude... genes.
"Apes fought for survival to become human beings? lol poor logic man"
Apes fought for survival AND BECAME human beings. There was no intent. Again, ignorance of evolutionary theory and how it works.
".....he is trying to escape by giving UNSCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION...."
Explain to me please what a SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION would look like. I have cited what science has found through the tests performed on evolution. What more do you want? For me to somehow publish through this tiny comment box a textbook on evolution? I've given you several examples of excellent books on the subject by experts. I am not an expert and I run circles around you guys in my understanding of evolution.
"Did one of our ape-man father's commit adultery and screwed one from the line of evolving pigs, the product piggy of which inherited that gene."
Sorry... beyond my level of knowledge to comment on. I searched and found no controversy on the subject.
"sO YOU ARE TELLING THERE IS NO DESIGN IN YOUR EYES, EARS,FINGERS,TEETH,respiratory system,cardiovascular system, digestive system, locomotor systemm............??????/"
Yes.
In evolution there IS NO INTENT to design. You get what you get. There is nothing out there thinking "we need eyes and ears on this animal so lets start making them." Again. Natural selection chooses the best, it took billions of years and trillions of generations and a billion trillions of individuals, but it got there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
Comparisons carried out on the molecule cytochrome c, cited by the NAS as evidence for evolution, resulted in disappointment for evolutionists. These comparisons showed that the turtle was closer to birds than to the snake, another reptile. Evolutionists had claimed that the protein sequences of the turtle and snake, two reptiles, should be much closer to each another. The same research also revealed that chickens exhibit greater similarities to penguins than to ducks. Man emerges as closer to kangaroos than to apes.
Christian Schwabe, "On the Validity of Molecular Evolution", Trends in Biochemical Sciences, vol. 11, July 1986.
Carl Woese, "The Universal Ancestor", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 95, 1998, p. 6854
Christian Schwabe, "Theoretical Limitations of Molecular Phylogenetics and the Evolution of Relaxins", Comparative Biochemical Physiology, vol. 107B,
How can infor,ation in the chromosomes form themselves?
the article you have read was not the product of chance,but a product of intelligent mind
escape..escape...escape...
you cannot give scientific evidence to these people,they have taken master degree on these subject,
so run away.....run away.....hide some where like Richard Dawkins.
It looks like the phylogenetic trees had have some questions and some detractors. But that is the way of science and the fact these papers got published isn't good evidence of your conspiracy theories. However, one reference is 20 years old, the other 10. A lot has happened lately. Looks like they are pressing on with phylogenetic coding despite your detractors:
http://discovermagazine.com/2005/apr/pushing-phylocode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhyloCode
http://www.ohio.edu/phylocode/
http://www.palaeos.org/PhyloCode
I am getting tired of beating my head against a brick wall. I hope one of your readers got a germ of evolution planted and maybe someday they'll come to understand it. That would make this worth it. I never really thought I'd convert anyone, but had to try. Enjoy your lives in the delusional dark ages. I sincerely hope it isn't too painful.
You have a long way to go. Genes dude... genes.
Which evolutionary Mechanism LOADED information into the Genes?
Was it Natural selection? SELECTION NEEDS an intelligent Mind!!!
#Apes fought for survival AND BECAME human beings. There was no intent. Again, ignorance of evolutionary theory and how it works.
Why only Apes fought to become Human?...why not other creatures?
#Explain to me please what a SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION would look like.
A scientific explanation with concrete evidence where EXPERIMENTS validate the theory.
Cite an experiment that proves species can evolve into another BRAND NEW specie.......SO THAT I CAN DO THE SAME EXPERIMENT HERE IN INDIA AND CONFIRM ITS VALIDITY.
#sO YOU ARE TELLING THERE IS NO DESIGN IN YOUR EYES, EARS,FINGERS,TEETH,respiratory system,cardiovascular system, digestive system, locomotor systemm............??????/"
Yes.
In evolution there IS NO INTENT to design.
So you are telling there is no DESIGN in your body.....ok
Is there any DESIGN in your Laptop, Airplane,Mobile phone, shirt, your computer screen,pen......etc....etc.....how was it formed? was it formed out of ''BLIND SELECTION'' or by ''INTELLIGENT SELECTION''?
No you are getting punched by the gloves of the Harun Yahya. Whether a paper is 10, 20 or 1000 years old. As long as the content in it can be validated today suffices. It doesnt change the fact that kangaroos have cytochrome C more analogous then apes if the paper documenting this fact is published in circa 2000 BC or 2000 AD.
You dont need to reconfirm that the evolutionists wont stop at anything to move their theory, the point I was making is that they hide the big big holes in the theory and go to sleep thinking that their imaginatory connections will last for long. Harun yahya has awoken the world and we wont stop until we have intellectually circumcised all this evolutionists propagandists.
Was it Natural selection? SELECTION NEEDS an intelligent Mind!!!”
Selection does not need a mind! Read the theory and understand how it works. Selection is a natural process that HAS NO INTENT.
“Why only Apes fought to become Human?...why not other creatures?”
Read my word exactly please. Our ancestral apes fought to SURVIVE. Not to become human. Humans are the result, not the goal. Not the same thing.
“Cite an experiment that proves species can evolve into another BRAND NEW specie...”
I have already cited one. The E Coli that evolved to live in a citric environment. They are effectively a new species. Other E Coli cannot live in that environment, only the new one. Another example is the breeding of dogs over the centuries. A Great Dane cannot mate naturally with a Dachshund. Genetically they are close but they are separated now physically. Species: "a species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding individuals who are reproductively isolated from other such groups."
“Is there any DESIGN in your Laptop, Airplane,Mobile phone, shirt, your computer screen,pen...”
There you go again equating technology with biology. Evolution has no intent. Biology has no intent. It strives to survive and reproduce but it has no intent. There is no goal, only a result. You are like a child asked why there are clouds answering “to make the grass grow”. The child attributes intent on the clouds where there is none. You have to attribute intent in order to keep your god around were there is none.
“you are getting punched by the gloves of the Harun Yahya.”
Ha! Ha! HA! HA! SNORT! Ha! HA! That is so funny it hurts! That crook! He is a con man who knows he has a great gig leading you guys around thinking he is a “GREAT SCIENTIST” where in reality is just a crook. Like all the other preacher crooks. Good luck with that!
Tom
Is that why every cell in terms of molecular biology is termed excellent engineering. One can only conclude you have a shallow aesthetic awareness when you say a mindless process produced the Rose plant or the 2 million nephron factory which purifies your blood without which you wont last a few days or the liver which works 500 types of complex metabolic pathways. I guess you make a blind, unreflected statement when you say evolution happened with the only requirement on this earth being time and yet expect people to sit and nod their heads at you. Why would someone nod when your explanations wont be even acceptable to children who know the basic complexities of life. Such a foolish, simple concept as accidents causing magical arrangement only if the accidents are supervised by a process is utter stupidity. The outcomes are in the infinite yet we see a universe with a definitive genetic coding. The genetic formulary doesnt work in infinite sequence options. The limited species this world has experienced are just an ultra-microscopic dot in the vast expanse of non-sense genetic coding possible. This dot theory is enough proof that God designed the precision of the genetic sequences we possess. Tom to change just 38 amino acids into another specific order requires 4 billion years of the natural mutation rate.
Tom REflect and think and dont be dogmatic. The majority is not always correct. The evidence is.
https://www.msu.edu/~lenski/sciencearticle.html
Did you not read what I said I found that they had other bacteria eating nylon. I didn't just throw it out... I found the article. I suggest you get away from Yahya.
"One can only conclude you have a shallow aesthetic awareness when you say a mindless process produced the Rose plant..."
Huh? What has that to do with the argument? However... have you ever seen a Mandelbrot or Fractal where a complicated picture is created from a simple algorithm? The algorithm is simple and mindless but creates a colorful and complicated picture with just small variations of input parameters. Executing a math equation over and over is not a designer, it is just a process running. Like evolution, over and over, trillions of times over billions of years.
"simple concept as accidents causing magical arrangement only if the accidents are supervised by a process is utter stupidity"
Where have I said anything magical happens? Sure there are many more possible combinations of genetic code, they just weren't selected. And each code has to come from parents, nothing in evolution suggests a code just pops out, change is by just one mutation at a time. Also, just because a coding is possible doesn't make it viable. Many were selected and then died off. The fossil record shows many species that no longer exist, branches that were dead ends or were ended by disaster. I am sorry you fail to see the simple beauty of evolution. Do you also fail to see the simple beauty of Kepler's laws of planetary motion? Einstein's Special and General Relativity? Newtons general laws of physics? Is there intelligence behind those processes? In many ways, evolution is much simpler.
Logical Fallacy: Argument from Personal Incredulity
"I cannot explain or understand this, therefore it cannot be true. Creationists are fond of arguing that they cannot imagine the complexity of life resulting from blind evolution, but that does not mean life did not evolve."
From: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx
I HAVE reflected on this and I am NOT being dogmatic. For an old aerospace engineer, I think I am being pretty open minded. And I am not in the majority, creationism is still the most popular belief in this world about were we come from. The evidence shown to me is evolution is true. It makes sense to me. You don't see it and I am sorry. All I can suggest is you read Coyne's book, it lays it all out nicely, even addressing some of your points. Let go of your god for just a little while you read it. It could be a releasing experience.
I see no god. Just because something is beautiful and complicated and "looks" designed doesn't make god true.
Go read the latest paper on nylonase.
J.Mol Biology(2007) 370, 142-156. Authored by Seiji Negoro et al the study and the crystallographic analysis of nylonase. It proves beyond doubt the false lies place by evolutionary propagandists.
What more do you want. Will you cling to your citrate until it is further debunked. Or will you wait for your death and then open your eyes as to the irrational science you lived in.
Tom without doubt, You have no understanding of the world you are living in. Are you serious with this statement. A simple mathematical equation proving the origin of all life and biodiversity, the most incredible, sophisticated engineering, in all its most excellent magnificent design. Tom do you smoke ganja, I know you are my elder but I have to ask you this since ganja can worsen the outcome of those trapped in the overwhelming deceit of darwinism and who have been swayed by evolutionary winds of misinformation.
Fossil record is clear on the Origin of Species - Cambrian explosion, lack of intermediate fossils. The fossil is the last place evolutionists would want to scrutinize. Even now the slogan "Evolution is true without fossils" is become so common to the extent that the worlds leading publicizers has publicly declared it openly. It shows how how gluey the minds of the those afflicted with chronic deceit. They just dont want to let go even though the 100 Million fossils are staring right in their eyes. I think all evolutionists need a trial of anti-psychotics. Perhaps then we might get a period in which all delusional activity will be a minimum and perhaps then the point and evidence will penetrate through.
You have not yet given any scientific explanation
[1] Appearance of novel capabilities in organisms via mutation and selection - Nylonase enzymes in Japanese Flavobacterium species:
A New Nylon Oligomer Degradation Gene (nylC) on Plasmid pOAD2 from a Flavobacterium sp. by Seiji Negoro, Shinji Kakudo, Itaru Urabe, and Hirosuke Okadam, Journal of Bacteriology, Dec. 1992, p. 7948-7953
Birth of a unique enzyme from an alternative reading frame of the pre-existed, internally repetitious coding sequence by Susumu Ohno, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 81, pp. 2421-2425, April 1984
[2] Appearance of novel capabilities in organisms via mutation and selection - Antifreeze Glycoproteins in Antarctic Notothenioid fishes:
Convergent Evolution of Antifreeze Glycoproteins in Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes and Arctic Cod by Liangbiao Chen, Arthur L. deVries and Chi-Hing C. Cheng, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol 94, pp 3817-3822, 1997
Evolution of an Antifreeze Glycoprotein by Liangbiao Chen and Chi-Hing C. Cheng, Nature, vol 401, pp 443-444, 1999
Functional Antifreeze Glycoprotein Genes in Temperate-Water New Zealand Nototheniid Fishes Infer An Antarctic Evolutionary Origin by Chi-Hing C Cheng, Liangbiao Chen, Thomas J Near and Yumi Jin, Journal of Molecular and Biological Evolution, Vol 20, no 11, pp 1897-1908, 2003
Nonhepatic Origin of Notothenioid Antifreeze Reveals Pancreatic Synthesis As Common Mechanism in Polar Fish Freezing Avoidance by Chi-Hing C Cheng, Paul A. Cziko and Clive W. Evans, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol 103, pp 10491-10496, 2006
[3] Speciation events observed in the laboratory:
Evidence for rapid speciation following a founder event in the laboratory by J.R. Weinberg V. R. Starczak and P. Jora, Evolution vol 46, pp 1214-1220, 1992
Experimentally Created Incipient Species of Drosophila by Theodosius Dobzhansky & Olga Pavlovsky, Nature 230, pp 289 - 292 (02 April 1971)
Founder-flush speciation in Drosophila pseudoobscura: a large scale experiment by A. Galiana, A. Moya and F. J. Alaya, Evolution vol 47, pp 432-444, 1993 (Speciation event in Drosophila melanogaster)
Phagotrophy by a flagellate selects for colonial prey: A possible origin of multicellularity byM.E. Boraas, D.B. Seale and J.E. Boxhorn, Evolutionary Ecology Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 153-164. Feb 1998
[4] Speciation events in nature and supporting phylogenetic evidence:
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