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rodssslive (October 6, 2008 at 3:40 pm)
Amazin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
0n3m4n4rm33 (September 10, 2008 at 5:13 pm)
I love ted
maybe next time I'll have the four racks to get in...
musplayer (July 29, 2008 at 11:46 am)
brilliant material. brilliant speaker.
chakazul (July 27, 2008 at 6:08 pm)
a recap of the 12 points:
1.self-assembly (pearl, computers without carcinogens, lenses from seawater)
2.CO2 as feedstock
3.solar transformation
4.power of shape (fins, color without pigments, clean without detergents)
5.quenching thirst (water from air)
6.metals without mineral
7.green chemistry (spider web)
8.timed degradation (mussel shell)
9.resilience and healing (vaccines)
10.sensing responding (locust won't collide)
11.growing fertility
12.life creates condition conducive to life
chakazul (July 27, 2008 at 5:34 pm)
Right, if we just sit here and do nothing for the Earth, even God can't save us.
nyclear (July 26, 2008 at 10:18 am)
There is less difference between creationism and evolution than most people think. When you calculate how time is warped due to a massive energy surge like the big bang, 6 or 7 days translates to about 14.6 billion years or so.
Joe22c (July 12, 2008 at 2:01 am)
Oh for certain; I'll agree that natural selection is not a freak accident, but nor is it the "opposite of [a] freak accident."
What I said was it's better described as "an amalgam of millions of freak accidents" some of which result in survival and reproductive advantage while some of which do not. etc.
It would be just as misleading, if not more so IMO, to say natural selection is the "exact opposite" of a freak accident because it gives the false sense that it occurs with a preset goal.
sanguinus (July 12, 2008 at 12:49 am)
Well, the actual DNA mutations are not 'designed' to occur, but it's not true to describe natural selection as 'freak accident'. It's no accident - it's the result of beneficial mutations and selection through success in the environment of creatures displaying mutations that best allow it to survive in that environment. It's misleading to call it a 'freak accident'; there's nothing random about natural selection - the fittest animals breed and live, passing on their genes - changing gene pool.
Joe22c (July 12, 2008 at 12:06 am)
Actually, natural selection is an amalgam of millions of freak accidents.
A disgustingly widespread misconception is that natural selection has some pre-ordained destination; it doesn't.
Random mutations result in variation; some are beneficial and some are detrimental in terms of survival and reproduction.
Those individuals with beneficial mutations are more likely to survive/reproduce and pass on that mutation.
The take home message; nature doesn't 'pursue' evolution with a specific goal.
Joe22c (July 11, 2008 at 11:55 pm)
Me too... me too... =( |
