Group *** Moderator: I received this post from banned member Shepherdmoon, which seems intended for the list. In the interests of complete fairness, I have...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 2, 2002 2:17 am
Group On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 02:28:50 -0000, gromit54609 wrote: [...] ... GR>I guess until Stephen shows some familiarity with evolution and ... That's fine by...
... One has to pay to see the full text of the article, so I guess I'll never know the details of the "likelihood-sensitivity analysis" that is referred to, ...
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Phil Skell
tvk@...
Feb 2, 2002 5:44 pm
Phil does not know enough of this domain to make a worthwhile comment. Let me know if you would like a full copy of the article for evaluation. ... [Non-text...
... plonking ... with ... regard ... take ... By making unsupported assertions? Please Stephen you should know better than that? You may try to validate your...
... I just wondered why you thought it of particular interest in the first place, why you were interested in our comments. How much does one have to know to...
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Phil Skell
tvk@...
Feb 2, 2002 11:47 pm
The closing sentences of the abstract seemed clear enough until you cast your skepticism on it. Phil ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 2, 2002 11:55 pm
Group On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:10:55 +1300, Donald Nield wrote: [...] [continued] ... DN>Thanks to Steve for this clarification. The explanations that he gives...
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Phil Skell
tvk@...
Feb 3, 2002 12:16 am
Herewith a highly intelligent and polite discussion of questions related to ID, which may inform some debating this subject. Phil...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 3, 2002 12:33 am
Group On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 19:40:42 -0000, gromit54609 wrote: [...] ... GR>By making unsupported assertions? Please Stephen you should know ... Gromit's own...
... you ... rather ... Nice assertion my dear friend. ... Gromit's ... You're truely funny. Any supporting evidence I wonder? ... This ... does. How ironic my...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 3, 2002 12:00 pm
Group On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 08:01:55 -0000, gromit54609 wrote: [...] GR>Nice assertion my dear friend. [...] GR>How ironic my dear friend. [...] GR>So you claim...
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:39:40 -0800, Cliff Lundberg wrote: CL> This sounds like a marvellous way to settle these questions about evolution. One wonders why it...
... out to be a factual (or even probable) mechanism driving the diversification of life, it may allow us to infer characteristics of the creator that may be ...
... "I am a born-again agnostic, living as an atheist, having been a Bible-believing Christian until about the age of 12 and a practicing modernist Christian...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 3, 2002 3:00 pm
Group On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:10:55 +1300, Donald Nield wrote: [continued] ... DN>No, I do not have any problem with this. Does Don actually believe it *really*...
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Phil Skell
tvk@...
Feb 3, 2002 5:20 pm
... What difference do you recognize in, for example, the two OOL stories? Phil...
I have been reading with great amusement the arguments over what the "star of Bethlehem" might have been. Most likely, it is nothing but mythology. Of the ...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 4, 2002 12:56 am
Group On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 10:37:58 EST, hexagram14@... wrote: Welcome to Hexagram. Perhaps he will tell us a bit about himself, and where he is coming from...
Derek McLarnen wrote: CL> You can't distinguish mere common ancestry from direct descent. ... It matters if you're trying to actually establish phylogeny,...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 4, 2002 1:23 pm
Group Continuing with my plan of answering "see previous posts" whenever Cliff mentions his model, in order to terminate my long-running debate on it. After ...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 4, 2002 2:16 pm
Group On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:33:57 -0000, gromit54609 wrote: [...] ... GR>I am amazed that this person seems to not be aware of the work done ... "[T]his...
... cells. ... energy ... done ... Biochemistry ... of "The Way ... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195135121//ref=sr_1_10_1/002- 1298564-3989660 ... ...
Hi Steve - My posting re the star of Bethlehem was not to disparage the religious significance of the story - although re-reading my post I did come off that ...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 5, 2002 1:42 am
Group New members would not be aware of it, but I don't like using members' names in subject lines. This can be a form of ad hominem (it is not here) and it...
... Parallel evolution is the separate evolution of similar structures in different lineages. If the lineages begin with the same complex structure, and if ...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 5, 2002 2:06 pm
Group An interesting article in Prospect Magazine, a secular British magazine "for the intellectually curious general reader", concerning the tragic fate of ...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 5, 2002 10:23 pm
Group Here is a Fred on Everything (aka Fred Reed) column committing the heresy of admitting that evolution is a religion: "In short, evolution writ large...
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Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Feb 5, 2002 11:20 pm
Group On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 02:42:01 -0800, Cliff Lundberg wrote: [...] CL>GGS exemplifies neo-Darwinism and I have to wonder why Stephen ... It was my sense of...
