16% of US science teachers are creationists

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, June 25, 2012 2:34 AM

Pathetic. You don't like what someone says, so you call her a lesbian, as if that's grounds for dismissing what she has to say. As if her sexual status, lesbian or not, has anything to do with anything.

You're really pretty sad Six. I hope you find your way, because if you ever had a Way you are far from it right now. You are one desperately lost lamb. May the Powers save you from yourself.

Once you've slept it off, that is.

KWICKO

Monday, June 25, 2012 5:30 PM

Uhmmm... Jack?

You know how you got sand in your pussy about not wanting personal stuff dragged from one thread to another?

You're doing it. You're treating this like it's your own personal "Let's Offend Niki" thread. I thought you thought you were above such things.

Niki agrees with you. That doesn't make her a lesbian or a dyke, or anything else, except someone who disagrees with you (and is willing to put up facts and figures to show why).

Similarly, even *IF* she were a lesbian, that doesn't render her opinions null and void, does it? Are you advocating that gay and bisexual people SHOULD be treated as second-class citizens and have fewer rights?

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

BIGDAMNNOBODY

Monday, June 25, 2012 6:52 PM

But you are more than okay with several posters calling Jack a pathetic, drunk, sockpuppet?
RWED, where hypocrisy knows no bounds.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, June 25, 2012 8:04 PM

Actually Kwick, I never called her a lesbian... not even once.....

I just said that her posts are derived from man-hating lesbian posters with biased daddy issues, which is true.

From our history of discussions, Niki is a proud hetro-sexual who has "beaten the curve" and remains married in her silver-to-golden years.

We live in a world now that (Western) "men", through science, aren't needed other than being milked for child creation. It's a sad fact, but it's true. Once the idiots in the Middle East are 2 generations indoctrinated by MTV soft core porn and no longer wish to die by fire in the name of Allah and the 72 virgins that await them in death, the male-female "war" is over.

That IS the world we're living in. Only God, if there is one, can judge us after the fact. Don't look at me to be the "John Conner" here. I'll be the first to line up for a woman dominated world. It's what I dreamed and fantasized about since I was 8, and I can even post a youtube timeline of all of the cartoons and tv shows that poured that idea in my head up until now.

At the same time though, I just really think it's amusing that I'm saying this on the very year in a public forum that the Aztec's calendar "ran out"....

Here's jack, slavishly eating twat while having one eye to the sky looking for evidence of "The Rapture".

I'm quite sure that I'd still be here when and if it happens. Just wondering how many friends and family I'd be missing then....

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Uhmmm... Jack?

You know how you got sand in your pussy about not wanting personal stuff dragged from one thread to another?

You're doing it. You're treating this like it's your own personal "Let's Offend Niki" thread. I thought you thought you were above such things.

Niki agrees with you. That doesn't make her a lesbian or a dyke, or anything else, except someone who disagrees with you (and is willing to put up facts and figures to show why).

Similarly, even *IF* she were a lesbian, that doesn't render her opinions null and void, does it? Are you advocating that gay and bisexual people SHOULD be treated as second-class citizens and have fewer rights?

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

1KIKI

Monday, June 25, 2012 8:34 PM

FOR RIONAIRE

Evolution of one 'type' of organism into another 'type' in the laboratory:

Multicellular Life Evolves in Lab

More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on the Earth’s surface began forming multicellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question that has eluded evolutionary biologists.

But scientists in the Univ. of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences have replicated that key step in the laboratory using natural selection and common brewer’s yeast, which are single-celled organisms. The yeast “evolved” into multicellular clusters that work together cooperatively, reproduce and adapt to their environment – in essence, precursors to life on Earth as it is today.

Their achievement is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It all started about two years ago with a casual comment over coffee that bridging the famous multi-cellularity gap would be “just about the coolest thing we could do,” recall postdoctoral researcher Will Ratcliff and associate professor Michael Travisano, both from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.

So they decided to give it a try. Then came the big surprise. It wasn’t actually that difficult. Using yeast cells, culture media and a centrifuge, it only took them one experiment conducted over about 60 days, says Travisano, who is senior author on the PNAS paper.

“I don’t think anyone had ever tried it before,” says lead author Ratcliff. “There aren’t many scientists doing experimental evolution, and they’re trying to answer questions about evolution, not recreate it.”

Despite their modesty, the achievement has earned praise and admiration from evolutionary biologists around the world.

“To understand why the world is full of plants and animals, including humans, we need to know how one-celled organisms made the switch to living as a group, as multicelled organisms,” says Sam Scheiner, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Division of Environmental Biology. “This study is the first to experimentally observe that transition, providing a look at an event that took place hundreds of millions of years ago.”

Funding for the research was obtained in February 2011, with coauthors R. Ford Denison and Mark Borrello, adjunct and associate professors, respectively, in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.

Ratcliff and Travisano gave the scientific community a glimpse of their discovery at a conference last summer and have subsequently been invited to talk about it at other meetings. The PNAS article represents the first time full details about the research have been disclosed. “The article provides us with the first opportunity to show the breadth of evolutionary change that we’ve observed,” Travisano says.

In essence, here’s how the experiments worked. The two chose brewer’s yeast or Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a species of yeast used since ancient times to make bread and beer, because it is abundant in nature and grows easily. They added it to a nutrient-rich culture media and allowed the cells to grow for a day in test tubes. Then they used a centrifuge to stratify the contents by weight. As the mixture settled, cell clusters landed on the bottom of the tubes faster because they are heavier. They removed the clusters, transferred them to fresh media, and grew them up again. Sixty cycles later, the clusters – now hundreds of cells – looked roughly like spherical snowflakes.

Analysis showed that the clusters were not just groups of random cells that adhered to each other, but related cells that remained attached following cell division. That was significant because it meant they were genetically similar, which promotes cooperation. When the clusters reached a critical size, some cells essentially committed suicide (apoptosis) to allow offspring to separate. The offspring reproduced only after they attained the size

PENGUIN

Monday, June 25, 2012 9:10 PM

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

KWICKO

Monday, June 25, 2012 9:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BIGDAMNNOBODY:
But you are more than okay with several posters calling Jack a pathetic, drunk, sockpuppet?
RWED, where hypocrisy knows no bounds.

And you are more than okay with calling me worse than that. BDN, whose hypocrisy knows no bounds.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

KWICKO

Monday, June 25, 2012 11:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:

Amen!

And then there's this.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/loch-ness-monster-cited-by-us-schools
-as-evidence-that-evolution-is-myth-1-2373903

There are times I say to myself, "Self," says I, "this cannot possibly be real."

And then I remember that this is "Lousyana" we're talking about.

These are people who still use the old fallback position of "If people descended from apes, why are there still apes?" And I have to answer, "If you descended from your parents, how do you have parents?" They actively believe that family trees cannot branch.

And then I have to remind myself again: This is Lousyana. Their family trees never really did branch out very much.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

KWICKO

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:19 AM

Quote:

Actually Kwick, I never called her a lesbian... not even once.....

I just said that her posts are derived from man-hating lesbian posters with biased daddy issues, which is true.

Even *IF* that were true, again I have to ask, so fucking what? Is the argument invalid if the original statement came from someone gay?

If so, please go destroy your computer this very second, since Alan Turing was gay.

You have become exactly like PN, only without any supporting evidence.

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

MAL4PREZ

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:56 AM

Quote:

Actually Kwick, I never called her a lesbian... not even once.....

I just said that her posts are derived from man-hating lesbian posters with biased daddy issues, which is true.

From what you've done in RWED lately Six, you are HARDLY one to dismiss anyone because of they might have "issues". (Which she doesn't - your whole premise of coming down on Niki here is laughable. She must have struck a nerve, huh?) But let's look at what you've been posting.

Sixstring the issue king ain't afraid to hijack threads with:
baggage baggage issue baggage
me me me me me

Which is fine if you really need to talk, because you surely are going through a rough patch and could use some help, but coming down on any poster in such a hypocritical misogynistic homophobic bullying way gets you exactly zero empathy from me. And if you don't like being called names, quit so perfectly fitting the bill of an immature, alcoholic, zero common sense asshole. Go back and read your posts again and you'll see what I mean. Nothing but complete self-absorbed asshat-ery.

Yeah, that's harsh. You earned it. Believe it or not, I can be quite friendly, but you'd need to quit acting the way you are to get any friendliness from this quarter.

Kisses.

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