Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

@spendius,

I thought you said that you were a scientist. Yet you seem to miss the substrate of what the word chromosome had been derived from. Are you just some priest who likes reading comic books?

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@farmerman,

And it's one of the oldest comic books in existence, the bible.

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@farmerman,

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@cicerone imposter,

http://thebuzzcincy.com/files/2009/10/comic-book-Genesis.jpg

A minor scientist.

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@farmerman,

You read that too quick fm. As did ci. And you read it for the wrong reasons too.

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@farmerman,

Etymology:

1889, from Ger. Chromosom, coined 1888 by Ger. anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921), from Gk. khroma "color" + soma "body." So called because the structures contain a substance that stains readily with basic dyes.

Once an idiot, always an idiot.

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@Lightwizard,

Well Wiz. It's a neat cartoon.

Get going you two and get some ******* work done instead of lying around all day eating, sleeping and shagging.

It worked. The Protestant work ethic summed up artistically. Excellent. Adam looks really pissed off.

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@spendius,

spendi, My work days have been over for more than a decade, and am now enjoying the fruits of my labour.

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@edgarblythe,

I think it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Give them an inch, they'll take a foot?

Did I hear someone cry 'uncle'?

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@Ragman,

"As the bishop said to the Mother Superior", surely Raggie. That for Ed's.

"As the bishop said to the novitiate priest", for your's.

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@spendius,

As the Deacon said to the altar boy
"pull my finger"

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@farmerman,

OOOOW--you are awful fm!!

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@cicerone imposter,

.. just in case some one didn't know

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@cicerone imposter,

I've been semi-retired since 2004 but still free-lance as a consultant. I'm so glad I don't have to bother with an inventory any longer -- although my garage is still clogged with various recessed and track lighting parts specialized light bulbs, et al. I got rid of a lot of it with the electricians who install from my lighting design, but I keep threatening myself to put them all on E Bay and that's that. Unless it's a trip to, say, Cancun to oversee a lighting project for a hotel or other commercial job, I'm not too willing to work. I did do a 100 ft. yacht in Newport Harbor about 2 years ago, including all the audio and video as well as the LED lighting but was so tuckered out after that project, I just started to overbid design fees (which sometimes has backfired on me as they gave me that damn project anyway). Once in a while, a college will call me to lecture on lighting design, usually their interior decorating classes, but I have a habit of getting too technical for the class to retain a lot of the suggestions. I even threaten to close down the design room, except that's also where I do artwork so that won't work.

Hope your new kitchen lighting turns out great and I hope I helped.

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@Lightwizard,

It does help Wiz.

I judge bar companions on the basis of how much they talk themselves up.

It reminds me of a cock going cockadoodledoo outside the window at some unGodly hour. Like with Thurber's whippoorwill.

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@Lightwizard,

LW, The electrician came this morning and replaced our old fluorescent lighting fixture with the T8, and I love it. It changed our dull lighting to daylight, and I'm very pleased with it.

I think this is the end of any remodeling or electrical work in our home.

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@cicerone imposter,

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I think this is the end of any remodeling or electrical work in our home.

I can't see Wiz taking any further interest in somebody with an attitude of that nature ci.

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@cicerone imposter,

That's the trick! It's the bulb that does the work and I keep telling people the same thing when their main complaint turns out to be color temperature. The T8 coating is more blue/white with a lot less green than most florescent lighting (which doesn't just make food look rather unappetizing but literally can make people look like they're ill). A lot longer lamp life on the T8 as well.

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LOUISIANA UPDATE

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A Dubious Honor for Louisiana at Year’s End
(By Barbara Forrest, Louisiana Coalition for Science, January 1, 2010)

As the new decade begins in 2010, “Top Ten” lists are a popular way to commemorate the events of 2009, and science is well-represented in the list-making. Wired Science lists the “Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009.” The Examiner lists the “Top 10 Science Stories of 2009.” Scientific American has posted a slideshow of “The Top 10 Science Stories of 2009.” ScienceNOW, a website by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for publishing breaking science news , has listed “The Top 10 ScienceNOWs of 2009.” National Geographic News lists the “Top Ten Videos of 2009: Nat Geo News’s Most Watched.” And Religion Dispatches lists its “Top Ten Religion & Science Stories.”

Louisiana closes out 2009 by being on two “Top Ten” lists, but these are lists on which the citizens of Louisiana should be embarrassed to be included.

Virtually all of the above lists include stories that highlight important discoveries related to evolution. Louisiana, however, made it onto these two lists for its attack on the teaching of evolution.

The National Center for Science Education has posted its “Top Ten Evolution/Creationism Stories of the Year.” Louisiana is NCSE’s story #5, which highlights (using hyperlinks) the Louisiana Family Forum’s commandeering of both the policy and the complaint process related to implementation of the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act.

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Looking at the bright side, Louisiana is blessed with dedicated public school science teachers and accomplished scientists. Readers around the state should (1) let your science teachers know that you support teaching evolution and thank them for their efforts to teach good science, and (2) inform your school board members that you will be watching them to make sure that they do not allow creationist materials into our public school science classes. As always, if you learn that such materials are being used, please contact the Louisiana Coalition for Science.

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@wandeljw,

Scientific American's Top Ten Science Stories 2009 link:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=top-10-science-stories-2009

Of course, Ardi is among those at the top of the list with the Large Hadron Collider and the amazing refurbishing of the Hubble.

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