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Just watching an interesting program on National Geographic. The commentators on this documentary were saying that the mutation that is most likely responsible for distinguishing humans from lower...

The carbon cycle makes it vastly more complicated than that.

Also, Newtons LAWS of motion do not hold true at the atomic level or when objects are travelling near the speed of light. The law/theory distinction is not very meaningful to scientists.

Exactly! Theory does not mean something is not scientifically certain.

There is not a particular piece of data that I am waiting on. The problem is that there are way too many problems with the current models to properly assess the impact of human contribution.

...except, ALSO, relativity is a theory.

This is pretty much 100 percent correct except for where you imply that AGW is true.

Yes, it is a scientific certainty - unlike global warming, which is scientifically debatable.

To me it is not about faith in particular scientists, but the overwhelming evidence which makes evolution a scientific certainty. We still have not figured out where every branch comes of the...

I just don't see how finding a fish that was thought to be extinct - but really wasn't - impacts evolution in particular. To me this is more similar to not being able to find evidence of a...

I am surprised that people find this surprising.



This would be consistent with man's evolutionary tendency to want to spread his seed...

Not exactly sure what this has to do with evolution, but okay.

Why do humans walk on two legs? To save energy.

Four legs are good--but two legs are more energy-efficient, theorizes a researcher at the University of California at Davis.
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^LMFAO. So Creationists do believe in evolution after all.

BTW, I think it is fair to say that species are the results of "accidents" - but the potentiality of such accidents were inherent to its ancestors. The "accidents" were in fact caused by the...

Species labels define living entities by their physical traits.

Physical traits are caused by DNA.

Sexual reproduction produces offspring that have different DNA than the parent.
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I guess I don't understand why everything must have an essence. I don't think very many things can be reduced to something so minimal as a singular essence. I think the purpose of words are to...

I don't know what exactly you mean by "essence" I guess. I suspect that taxology was used to create distinct boundaries that seemed most "significant" - to classify things by what you consider their...

Things still have identity and act and interact in accordance thereto, but you have to look at a much more micro-level (genetic) to appreciate the causes that underly evolution. Humanness did not...

I agree.

Glad to see you back. "Dog" is not a good technical label. It is sufficient for our purposes. What separates one species, race, breed, kingdom, phyla from another is certainly an issue of degree. ...

Sure, we would be near the top of the class if this was special ed. Woohoo!

I am not saying that other countries have less ignorant citizens. I am just saying that Americans, as a group, are demonstrably ignorant - doesn't matter if other countries are worse. What...