Jim writes: By the way, are you aware that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are a trailing, not a leading, indicator of temperature change? Pasha...
Victor writes: Perhaps Miranda has not always been far from the Sun. Ptolemy, 1850 years ago, measured larger angular diameters for the planets. Pasha...
... From: gluadys To: OriginsTalk@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 2:50 AM Subject: [OriginsTalk] Re: Creation versus Global Warming LA> It...
... It is entirely relevant unless you are inventing your own dictionary. If epilepsy is produced by the natural order within the natural order through...
... So two people with a history of distorting evidence and no background in the relevant science think they have found a discrepancy in two charts intended...
Laurie quotes: By comparing the chart on page 20 pertaining to carbon dioxide and temperature data to the one on page 65 pertaining to astronomical rhythms...
TURANDOT: In stark contrast to Darwin's theory of evolution, Copernicus39;s heliocentric theory doesn't prescribe the material origin of the sun and the earth;...
... But what has been presented that is imaginary? Is it the opercular chamber of Acanthostega? Is it the limb girdles of Ichthyostega and Hynerpeton? Is it...
... When you say "exposed long enough to similar ecological factors" you must be referring to natural selection as opposed to sexual selection the way Darwin...
... Really. Then please post the dictionary references that verify your claim. ... Which confuses *cause* and "the regularities of the natural order."...
... Where is the evidence of the miracle? That she appeared healthy and then all of a sudden, died? That when people, like my wifes father, get the A-OK from...
On December 29, 2009, Phil Schuster wrote re: Lewontin on materialism: PHIL: OK, so far no one has shown that mutations can be predicted ahead of time or that...
... And you are forgetting that Darwin was relying on Pallas. I don't know Pallas' arguments for considering natural selection untenable as an explanation of...
It does appear that something out of the natural occurred. I observe two different kinds of miracles in the Bible. One kind of miracle is adaptations of the...
... What is wonderful and mysteriously creative is the web of relations that exists in biomes. The fact that immediate relations are often antagonistic doesn't...
... I think then that we are in basic agreement here. Paley was not wrong in his understanding that we can go from Nature through to Nature's God, but he was...
... Last things first, since gluadys' "final note" puts her preceding comments re: Dr. Nagel's essay in sharp perspective. Because Nagel writes, for instance,...
... I wasn't using sliding criterion of "conservatism". I understand "conservative" to mean, "to want to keep what exists". "Liberal" means, to want to give a...
PHIL: OK, so far no one has shown that mutations can be predicted ahead of time or that there is prior intent involved. Clare Wilson Parr: One word:...
... In sharp contrast to the legacy left to him by the tireless work of William Wilberforce, who made the abolition of slavery in the Empire his Christian...
... And if what exists is a liberal social and political framework then today's conservative wants to keep liberalism. So by your definition, today's...
... Scientists are neither good nor bad based on what kind of scientist they are. The fact of the matter is there seems to be no such thing as an "ID...
I don't think there was a choice. Medicine was inept at5 dealing with the event. The event itself was not a miracle. The miracle is instead life itself. ... ...
... Nagel essay. ... No imaginative leap needed. I simply took Nagel at his word: "My own situation is that of an atheist who, in spite of being an avid ...
... Victor: He explained the construction details of the instrument he used to measure the diameters of the moon and planets (a dioptra). He measured the...
DARWIN'S "SEXUAL SELECTION".... gluadys: "And if what exists is a liberal social and political framework then today's conservative wants to keep liberalism. So...