EvilDrPuma Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Could someone rep-smack Escafarc for that sublime bit of truth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ops Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Done and with pleasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Here we go again. The guy who came up with the idea of DNA was a "Creationist". This is why I'm beginning to hate the forums. It's become a place for political and religious bashing and posturing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Here we go again. The guy who came up with the idea of DNA was a "Creationist". This is why I'm beginning to hate the forums. It's become a place for political and religious bashing and posturing. Um. Which one? Watson? Crick? Rosalind Franklin? I haven't found any information linking any of them to a pro-Creationism group, and Crick actively spoke out against young earth creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures A d20 made of skulls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterVimes Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Um. Which one? Watson? Crick? Rosalind Franklin? I haven't found any information linking any of them to a pro-Creationism group, and Crick actively spoke out against young earth creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard. Perhaps Friedrich Miescher? But I've never found anything to suggest that he was a "Creationist". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures The guy who came up with the idea of DNA was a "Creationist". Um. Which one? Watson? Crick? Rosalind Franklin? Narf, are you perhaps referring to Gregor Mendel, the Augustinian friar considered the father of modern genetics? If so, to be precise, Mendel came up with the idea of inheritance of traits, not of DNA. And if I'm making an incorrect assumption, my apologies and feel free to ignore this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures At any rate, it's more a question of methods. Creationists believe what they do because of scripture and prayer. There are plenty of scientists of faith who have furthered our knowledge, but they did so using science, not scripture study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Could someone rep-smack Escafarc for that sublime bit of truth? Got 'im. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Narf, are you perhaps referring to Gregor Mendel, the Augustinian friar considered the father of modern genetics? If so, to be precise, Mendel came up with the idea of inheritance of traits, not of DNA. And if I'm making an incorrect assumption, my apologies and feel free to ignore this post. In Mendel's day, evolution was very controversial and not widely accepted, even among non-Christians. Mendel was probably unaware (or unwilling to accept) that he had discovered the fundamental driving process of evolution. Darwin had an idea what was happening from observation, but did not know the mechanism. He knew that creatures changed in response to their environments through adaptation, but not quite how it was done. Mendel, through his own observation, unlocked the mechanism but was slow to accept the full implications of what he had found. What he did in his experiments illustrated the process behind what human farmers had been doing for thousands of years when they selectively bred animals and crops. He might not have realized at the time that nature had been doing the exact same thing for a billion years, and probably would have found the whole idea either alarming or silly. HE would probably have rationalized it as God doing the same sort of selective breeding humans had done -- evolution with a conductor, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures There wasn't really much of a theory of evolution to work with in Mendel's day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDrPuma Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures There wasn't really much of a theory of evolution to work with in Mendel's day. True enough; as far as I know, Mendel went to his grave without ever hearing about Darwin's work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures What kind of model was Leon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures What kind of model was Leon? Wasn't Leon the same model as Roy? He just had the misfortune of being caught in the opening sequences Turing Test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Wasn't Leon the same model as Roy? He just had the misfortune of being caught in the opening sequences Turing Test. Voight kampff, not Turing. /pedantic nerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Confoundo Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures There wasn't really much of a theory of evolution to work with in Mendel's day. Does Spontaneous Generation count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Wasn't Leon the same model as Roy? He just had the misfortune of being caught in the opening sequences Turing Test. I'm pretty sure he's not. I'll get back to you with some more details, but I'm just out the door going to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures What kind of model was Leon? I recall he was a Nexus 6, but not the exact same model as Roy. He was a combat loader based on what I can remember of the profiles given early in the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Does Spontaneous Generation count? I once had a manager that essentially believed this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures NEXUS-6 N6MAC41717 according to the wiki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDrPuma Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Does Spontaneous Generation count? How about mitosis? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKBCYJJKJCY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures A d20 made of skulls. The one on the bottom right was modeled after mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Confoundo Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures How about mitosis? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKBCYJJKJCY He didn't really evolve though... not sure that Sheldon is able to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Photographer captures stunning images of rare, violent electrical storm (link) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Very strange diffraction pattern on the streetlights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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