I don't know how we can get any plainer than this: evolution really happened and is happening.
Evolution is a simple fact. We can choose to remain ignorant of it, we can stick our fingers in our ears and refuse to think about it, we can even rail against it and shout and scream that it is not allowed to be true. But facts are facts, and will not go away just because we don't like them. We don't get to vote for our preferred method of having come into existence as a species, any more than we can choose to have been delivered by stork rather than conceived and born in the usual way.
Candidates who stick their fingers in their ears and reject reality simply don't deserve to hold office.
(Also on FtB)
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There is another way of doing math on your fingers, which gives you a much greater range of numbers, and which makes multiplication particularly easy. It's a bit more work to get used to than the finger abacus, but it has a lot less limitations.
A while ago, I wrote a
href="http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/05/finally_finger_trees.php">couple
of posts that claimed to talk about finger trees. Unfortunately, I really
botched it. I'd read a bunch of data structure papers, and managed to get
So freaking cool (and freaky)...Via