Group Happy New Year! I am please to see that the list has grown back to over 60 members again. That is a good base to start 2003 from. I have had to split my...
Stephen E. Jones
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Jan 3, 2003 6:39 am
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Group On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:58:31 -0800, Cliff Lundberg wrote: [continued] ... CL>Indeed I'd like to know what 'strict creationists' he has in mind who...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 3, 2003 6:42 am
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Group I opened my new Molecular Cell Biology textbook, Lodish, et al, today to see if it had more on "natural selection" than my old Alberts, et al.,...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 3, 2003 2:01 pm
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... In this context that isn't relevant. The interesting question is 'What can be accomplished through random mutation?' Obviously non-random directed mutation...
Cliff Lundberg
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Jan 3, 2003 9:14 pm
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... This is because people don't regard the reductive process as obligatory; people don't accept that no species has added segments since the Cambrian. But...
Cliff Lundberg
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Jan 3, 2003 9:15 pm
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... The 'great chain of being' AFAIK has nothing to do with evolution at all, teleological or otherwise. It refers to a pre-Darwinian concept of a static ...
Cliff Lundberg
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Jan 3, 2003 9:15 pm
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Group I had a sudden flash of insight that I felt I had better share it, lest I forget it! And that is this: even if it is granted that natural selection can...
Stephen E. Jones
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Jan 4, 2003 12:11 am
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Group On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 03:24:55 -0800, Cliff Lundberg wrote: [...] ... CL>In this context that isn't relevant. The interesting question is 'What can be ... ...
Stephen E. Jones
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Jan 4, 2003 2:31 pm
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... For me the 'direction' is simply the limitation to reduction and distortion among skeletal parts. Within this severely limited arena random variation is...
Cliff Lundberg
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Jan 4, 2003 10:43 pm
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Group Here are excerpts from science news articles. My comments are in square brackets. My last such post is at: ...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 4, 2003 11:17 pm
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:50:04 +0800, Stephen E. Jones wrote: SJ>Welcome back to Derek. Thanks to Stephen for the welcome back, but I haven't been away, just ...
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:50:04 +0800 (in "Re: Paleontological data better than ... discredit ... SJ>As I had previously ruled, that would be OK on CED, as long...
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:50:04 +0800 (in "Re: Paleontological data better than expected"), Stephen E. Jones wrote: [...] SJ>But as I have pointed out, most...
Group On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:53:52 +1100, Derek McLarnen wrote: [...] ... DM>My meaning may have been clearer if I had written "to talk of saving ... I suggest...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 8, 2003 12:52 am
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Group This article about a three-dimensional printer, is evidence of `it from bit', i.e. the logical and temporal priority of information over matter. It is...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 9, 2003 3:19 am
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Group I was reading Pinker's "The Language Instinct" when the following caught my eye: "I quote from a recent article in Science: `When Oskar Stohr and Jack...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 9, 2003 8:50 am
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... What would the discussion of matter be like? What's there to say about matter in itself? What could matter's "own terms" possibly be? Cliff...
Cliff Lundberg
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Jan 9, 2003 10:37 am
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... incorrect ... theory ... in ... something ... I've left the above in as an introduction since it is relevant to the origin of the thread. This message is...
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:49:17 +0800, Stephen E. Jones wrote: SJ>I was reading Pinker's "The Language Instinct" What a coincidence! My holiday reading over the...
Group Here is a virus alert I recently received. For the benefit of new members, attachments are disabled on CED as recommended by Yahoo so that attachment...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 10, 2003 1:32 pm
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Derek McLarnen wrote: SJ>As I have said many times, "current ... theories of evolution" are ... When was saltation falsified? Cliff...
Cliff Lundberg
cliff_lundberg@...
Jan 11, 2003 11:07 am
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Hello. My name is Stephen. I have Christian beliefs, and I see evolution as a teleology. In fact I wrote a paper on my views of evolution, and I have it posted...
Group On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:41:22 -0000, "Stephen" <hucklebird@...> wrote: SS>Hello. My name is Stephen. I have Christian beliefs, and I see ... Welcome...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 11, 2003 2:32 pm
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Greetings! I am new to this group, and would like to introduce myself. I am a Web Programmer and Concert Pianist who runs EvolutionIsDead.com. I am a Biblical...
In a message dated 1/11/03 6:33:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Christian beliefs: I was raised Catholic, but I am not one to follow dogma literally. A...
... Hello Jon, I agree with all you say, and have said the same, mainly in our local newspaper. You might include this idea. Biology is best divided into...
Phil Skell
tvk@...
Jan 11, 2003 9:33 pm
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Group On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:20:26 EST, hucklebird@... wrote: [...] ... SS>Christian beliefs: I was raised Catholic, but I am not one to follow dogma ... ...
Stephen E. Jones
sejones@...
Jan 11, 2003 11:12 pm
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I am going to ASSUME the questions that were given to me were genuine, and answer them any way. In a message dated 1/11/03 3:14:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, ...
Group On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:59:56 EST, hucklebird@... wrote: SS>Why is it that you need to know the answer to these questions???????? I don't "need to...