Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need can be discovered 🙂

Reminds me of something one of my favorite authors would say.

@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need  can be discovered 🙂

Reg,

Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doe…

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Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doesn’t und…[Read more]

Yes, the god of the gaps steps in when they bring out the arguments from complexity, incredulity, and ignorance.

It tells us something, that the domicile of the gods went from the top of the mountain, then up into the clouds, them out into space and then finally some unknown supernatural realm.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Dress it up in a lab coat but it is still a plain old god-of-the-gaps argument.

What is James Tour’s hang-up about Abiogenesis?

Anybody who has taken Jr. High biology and chemistry (at least from my day) knows that living things have Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphurous, and Sulfur, all of which are nonliving…[Read more]

Yes, If I were starting over, I would upload my genome to a server and get it to start running scenario based tests on it. That would give it time to run millions of tests to find the optimum “CTAG” string to make the best new parts.

Yes, “keep your government hands off my Medicare. Don’t you even think about socializing it”!

Reg,

That ballad only addresses superficial age spackling, not the prospect of replacing worn parts with your own personal stem cell-cloned “body shop.”

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End —In Memory of the Pope, 4/20 On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome, A holy puff drifted through sacred air. The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan— As incense mixed with something… dank and rare. JD approached, with scripture in his coat, Hillbilly psalms…

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