Comments on: Eve-olution

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:49:42 +0000

WRT the rate of evolutionary change:

The key questions really are: how fast is “fast”? and how slow is “slow”?

In the fossil record, there are periods of relative stability that last millions or tens of millions of years with only small changes observed in fossils within the stratum. By comparison, a change that takes 100,000 years will appear sudden when viewed from our perspective. But, actually, 100,000 years is a long time (Arguably, human civilisation has been around for less than 10,000 years).

100,000 years will also be 100,000 generations for many organisms (it’s about 4000 – 5000 generations even for humans), and much adaptive change can occur in 100,000 generations.

By: Grim

Grim — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:03:41 +0000

“ridiculously poorly designed organs”

Have to disagree with you on that one.
If our organs are ridiculously poor we’d hardly make it to age of 10. Of course our organs are not perfect, but they arent ridiculously poor.

Religion hardcore fanatics (fundies or whatever they call themselves) piss me off too. Not fond of hardcore atheists either. Bunch of closed minded idiots that make normal religious and atheist peple look bad.

Take care.

By: John H.

John H. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:14:23 +0000

Yes it is Brad G. I am just so weary of these creeps trying to destroy our education system. Sorry for being redundant.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:08:01 +0000

I’ve always said that my bad knees are proof that intelligent design doesn’t exist.

By: BradG

BradG — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:42:40 +0000

..Isn’t that a little redundant, saying that about Creationists, John?

By: John H.

John H. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:40:09 +0000

Did anyone happen to catch the Glenn Beck television show last night? He had Ben Stein on as a guest. This man is truly a mound of sewage if there ever was one.
Ben rambled on about his new movie: Expelled: I’m not Very Intelligent, or some such thing.
Besides the usual anti-evolution claptrap, Ben reported to a smirking Glenn Beck, how the movie is doing stupendous business at the box office.
The general consensus among movie critic’s is that the movie tanked.
But Ben tells us otherwise. He said audiences are giving standing ovations at the end of the movie.
These people seem to be almost totally disconnected from realty.

By: Snarky Bastards » Blog Archive » The Intelligent Designer Screws Up Again

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:23:15 +0000

[...] Heck, our silly species* can’t even procreate without killing about 1% of its females. Via Bad Astronomy, there’s a new exhibit that highlights this: An exhibit five years in the making, it uses [...]