Group My name is Stephen E. (Steve) Jones and I am the Moderator of this List. Here is a brief introduction which I have decided to place in the form of an...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 7, 2001 1:49 pm
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Group Here is a Yahoo article which is an interesting illustration of what I call the `construction project' design argument: ...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 8, 2001 8:22 pm
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Group On previous Lists I have been on, I have regularly posted excerpts of recent webbed science news articles, with my comments in square brackets, in order...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 11, 2001 12:23 pm
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I am an agnostic who believes life is the result of intelligent design - whether it was designed by God, some quantum process, or by the intelligence that is...
bertvan@...
Feb 12, 2001 8:09 pm
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Group On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:29:12 EST, bertvan@... wrote: BV>I am an agnostic who believes life is the result of intelligent design - ... Welcome to...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 12, 2001 10:37 pm
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Group Here is an update on the Kansas science standards issue. It is common to portray the issue as simply a black-and-white creationist vs evolutionist...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 13, 2001 8:33 pm
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Group Here are excerpts from recent webbed scientific news articles (in date order) on the joint publication of the human genome sequence. My comments are in...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 19, 2001 1:18 pm
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Thanks Steve. Great to have your reports on scientific developments again. What ever is going on in the genome, with one gene coding for more than one ...
bertvan@...
Feb 19, 2001 8:31 pm
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Group Here is a column in the San Francisco Chronicle which indicates that the theistic/ID implications of the Human Genome sequence revealing that we have...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 20, 2001 1:28 pm
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Steve, Thank you for locating the article by Tom Abate in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "Human Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine". I'm...
Mark Gosling
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Feb 24, 2001 10:04 pm
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If this is not off-topic... I am genuinely curious to know how atheists/naturalists cope with the inevitable griefs, pains, tragedies and losses that are bound...
Mark Gosling
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Feb 24, 2001 10:04 pm
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Group On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 00:13:24 +1000, Mark Gosling wrote: [...] MG>If this is not off-topic... Welcome to Mark. I am going to be fairly liberal about what...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 25, 2001 12:42 am
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Hi all, To give you an idea of were I'm coming from, I don't really consider myself to be a religious person, I think the term spiritual may be applicable...
_x__t__c_
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Feb 25, 2001 3:19 am
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Hi all, I just came across this list whilst looking into works by Phillip Johnson, and thought I would forward a message I posted recently to another list I...
_x__t__c_
e_is_an_e@...
Feb 25, 2001 3:20 am
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I am interested to hear people's thoughts on the following; I observe on the Net that the typical atheist is male, and many studies have shown that the typical...
Mark Gosling
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Feb 25, 2001 3:40 am
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Hi Markg, It's a pleasure to meet someone with such interesting questions, We are each responsible for our own personal philosophy, a view of the universe as...
bertvan@...
Feb 25, 2001 9:40 pm
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... It says that for at least the last 6000 years the male's primary responsibility has been hunting and killing while the women are raising kids and cooking,...
bill r wald
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Feb 25, 2001 11:03 pm
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Dear Berthajane ... minute >pieces of life. If intelligence is defined as the ability to make choices >based upon available information, all of life is ...
bill r wald
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Feb 26, 2001 4:57 am
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Hi Bill, Nice to hear from you. You asked: Bill: Doesn't compute, there is a chemical basis for phototropism. Plants don't "initiate." This is a form of...
bertvan@...
Feb 26, 2001 9:13 pm
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Dear Berthajane ... mathematics, spatial relations, etc., and women >are more verbal and interested in religion. If that is true >today, I assure you it was...
bill r wald
billwald@...
Feb 27, 2001 7:24 am
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Group On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:43:16 +1100 (EST), _x__t__c_ wrote: Welcome to Ian, and thanks to him for his post. Since Ian's pseudonym is "_x__t__c_", I have...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 27, 2001 8:14 pm
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Group Here are some more excerpts from recent webbed scientific news articles, in order of their perceived importance. My comments are in square brackets. As...
Stephen E. Jones
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Feb 27, 2001 11:15 pm
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http://web99.arc.nasa.gov/~astrochm/vesicle.html Scientists find clues that the path leading to the origin of life begins in deep space Mountain View, Calif.--...
_x__t__c_
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Feb 28, 2001 3:15 pm
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Group Here is one of Chuck Colson's Breakpoints on the significance of the human genome having only about a third of the genes that Darwinists thought were...
Stephen E. Jones
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Mar 1, 2001 8:47 pm
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[*** Moderator: Ian posted three messages all with the same date that looked identical. I am approving this one and deleting the other two, on the assumption...
_x__t__c_
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Mar 3, 2001 4:01 am
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Group On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:49:33 +1100 (EST), _x__t__c_ wrote: Thanks to Ian for his response. [...] ... I note Ian's wink ";" but I still regard this as a...
Stephen E. Jones
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Mar 5, 2001 1:56 pm
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... I found the small number of genes to be interesting rather than surprising. I think it just goes to show our lack of complete understanding regarding the ...
_x__t__c_
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Mar 6, 2001 3:06 am
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Group Here are excerpts from recent webbed scientific news articles. My comments are in square brackets. Again, if anyone reading this wants to subscribe to...
Stephen E. Jones
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Mar 6, 2001 9:20 pm
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... No need for apologies - your assumption is correct. ... Whilst I would be inclined to make that claim, I think that debate on the subject would be a futile...
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Mar 7, 2001 10:30 am
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... I found the small number of genes to be interesting rather than surprising. I think it just goes to show our lack of complete understanding regarding the ...