What's wrong with evolution?

Originally posted by mrstabby
Found a unit if that's enough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(unit)
Is there an equation to prove that DNA is genetic material? Is it a fallacy to believe it true.
Isn't evidence like the hawthorn fly (which appears to be splitting into to subspecies due to the two interbreeding at low frequency) or the Larus (gull) genus (which can often hybridise, but there are two species in Britain that cannot interbreed.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Yes, I'm surprised my drunken post with the incorrect usage of a word managed to get through the tough peer review process that we have on these forums - what WERE th moderators thinking! Of course, it's understandable that I got it wrong, after all I am (apparently) an alcoholic, simply because I occassionally get drunk.

Originally posted by whiterose
Don't mind the good Dr, he just likes to disparage anything unamerican.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Or, you could try this guy's stab (no pun intended) at it:
http://members.tripod.com/~jackbowman/SuperCode/scserch1.htm

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Or, you could try this guy's stab (no pun intended) at it:
http://members.tripod.com/~jackbowman/SuperCode/scserch1.htm

Originally posted by royalchicken
Dr. S, when you were on a peer review panel, did you allow split infinitives to go unpunished?

Originally posted by telerion
What boldness indeed to presume that I should devote my leisure time to eliminating minor trespasses of grammar! And to what end? Merely that of increasing the utility of rather captious onlookers and freeriders. Until I am offered considerably greater remuneration, do not anticipate one iota of impovement in the sentence structure of my posts.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Absolute crap. He's off on the same one as you "evolution is always subtractive". It's just not the case. Evolution can build fantastic structures, provided that they can arise by step by step mutations.

Originally posted by KellyJay
So you believe.
Kelly

Originally posted by KellyJay
So you believe.
Kelly

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
No actually evolutionary ideas are used all the time to solve problems in all sorts of fields. I remember one where they created a logic gate circuit over 200 generations by just hybridizing the better performers in each generation.

I think a very good application would be filter circuits. They can be a pain to design but with an evolutionary process y ...[text shortened]... ave to actually understand the circuit, just be able to choose between a good one and a bad one.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Is that really the best you have? Actually, it's not just "what I believe" - it explains huge amounts of real world data without resorting to "goddunnit".

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Sure: instead of "goddunnit," we have the "unseen, undetectable selector dunnit." Makes perfect sense.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
No we don't. The reasons for non-random survival and reproduction are very easy to see.

the only thing wrong with evolution is that it is missing an R from the front of it.

Jesus was a revolutionary who believed in violence to overthrow capitalism (temple whips moneylenders)

He took toe-jobs off hookers (mary-mags oil cream feet hair)

Was a confirmed alcoholic (turned 30 barrells of water into 30 barrells of wine.... and he didn't have a wee drink problem... hmmmm)

Had maschochistic tendencies (whips again... must have liked them, thorns nails spears and cruifixion and didn't want it stopped.. hmmmm)

Was a repressed homosexual (Mary-mags offered him an aul ride but he would rather be off fishing with the boys.... oh aye)

Was a corner boy and thug to the end (to his dying day he hung around with thieves and murderers)

And it costs me a fortune every year on his birthday... for fecks sake