Read all about it: he's featured in the Toronto Star, and there's even a nice picture of him.
In case you are unsure, I think he's the one on the left.
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Is that PZ on the right?
I'm not so sure. The one on the right looks more like a mad scientist... ;-)
Looks like an interesting week in Toronto.
Off-topic, but the blog Uncommon Descent has a link to article by a creationist. And it calls the creationist a "wackaloon!"
Are the wackos at UD trying to claim some scientific bonafides by calling a creationist paper bad science OR is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
If anyone is from around Hamilton, Ontario area, the McMaster Association of Secular Humanists will be showing the "documentary", Expelled with the lie-correcting subtitles on Darwin Day (this Thursday, the 12th).
Date: 12 February 2009
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: MDCL/1010
Street:McMaster University
Town/City: Hamilton, ON
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"He was the first to not only argue that things evolve, but to say how it happens – through natural selection," Moran says.
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Wow. Moran REALLY needs a history lesson if he thinks that Darwin was the first to argue the case for evolution.
Perhaps he meant to say "argue convincingly", but in that case, the only reason he was so convincing is that he got the mechanism right.
Yawn, do some real reading in biology Semisonic. You might not ask such stupid questions.
Is it too much to ask that you do the same? Put up or shut up. By the way, it has been shown. Do some research like a good ignoramus. It will help you learn things.
"Wow. Moran REALLY needs a history lesson if he thinks that Darwin was the first to argue the case for evolution."
Actually it was still a Darwin, it just happened to be Erasmus and not Charles. At least Charles listened to what his grandpa had to say (no doubt to spare himself a trip to the woodshed).
Check the archives. You have to prove whatever you are trying to us, not the other way around. Until then, enjoy the search.
Semistan/sonic,
The point Nerd was getting at is that such experiments have been done by the thousand (literally).
Semistan, look in the archives. There is a post. Do your own homework like a good little child.
Stan, why can't you do your own homework? Maybe because you shouldn't be here in the first place?
Actually it was still a Darwin, it just happened to be Erasmus and not Charles. At least Charles listened to what his grandpa had to say (no doubt to spare himself a trip to the woodshed).
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The idea was around for a long time before Erasmus Darwin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Islamic_philosophy#Evolution
bye fools.
Bueller, do you hear an annoying sound? Something like a gnat? PZ will get it shortly.
@semi(insert random suffix or nothing at all)
Blah, blah, blah, I'm a troll, blah, blah, blah
Do you have anything better? Really, you could get examples of all of that from the internet if you bothered looking it up. Why don't you, then, look up the answers to your questions from somewhere besides creationist forums and ask more valid questions, ones that haven't been discredited many times over? You probably don't care about the answers to these questions or evolution in general, so long as you think it is refuted and your belief system is validated.
Re: "Off-topic, but the blog Uncommon Descent has a link to article by a creationist. And it calls the creationist a "wackaloon!"
Yet on the same page, davescot has a post that promotes the same old creationist FUD about Archaeopteryx (implies deceit on part of scientific community).
davescot seems to be less and less an agnostic all the time--I guess Denyse almost has him converted.
Look at the comments, almost all favourable. You can tell the article is NOT in an American paper.
It is true that both Newton and Darwin are buried in Westminster Abbey, but Newton's monument looks more like a shrine, and Darwin got a floorstone with his name carved on it.
OUR left, or HIS left?
OUR left, or HIS left?