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enismirdalThere are SO many ways in which this girl is SO wrong!
Polyploidy, yeast mating types, plant pathology, transposable elements, slime moulds, the evolution of that grass species that I should remember that evolved through polyploidy about 50-100 years ago...
...and it's been a few hundred years since people realised Lamarck was talking BS and acquired characteristics, luckily, are NOT inherited.
*is pained*
*wishes she had Professor Parker available so she could write a 10, 000 word dissection of every point in that post*
Played LOTR Trivial Pursuit over Yahoo with a whole bunch of lovelies last night. Was great fun, but I had to go early before the 2nd place and beyond had been decided. For the record, it was Uli who gave all the right answers, not me! Was a giggle having the conference half voice and half typed! Oh, I loved it, I loved it!
I now have 6 Drosophila; two hatched yesterday and another overnight. They all seem to be male, which might make for wonderful slash, but unfortunately won't produce very many offspring until someone invents Drosophila mpreg.
How about it if I post AIHL4 later this afternoon or early evening?
Polyploidy, yeast mating types, plant pathology, transposable elements, slime moulds, the evolution of that grass species that I should remember that evolved through polyploidy about 50-100 years ago...
...and it's been a few hundred years since people realised Lamarck was talking BS and acquired characteristics, luckily, are NOT inherited.
*is pained*
*wishes she had Professor Parker available so she could write a 10, 000 word dissection of every point in that post*
Played LOTR Trivial Pursuit over Yahoo with a whole bunch of lovelies last night. Was great fun, but I had to go early before the 2nd place and beyond had been decided. For the record, it was Uli who gave all the right answers, not me! Was a giggle having the conference half voice and half typed! Oh, I loved it, I loved it!
I now have 6 Drosophila; two hatched yesterday and another overnight. They all seem to be male, which might make for wonderful slash, but unfortunately won't produce very many offspring until someone invents Drosophila mpreg.
How about it if I post AIHL4 later this afternoon or early evening?
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 12:54 (UTC)In any case, is this chick for real? Like, dudette, get a book! (or two)
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 13:02 (UTC)*is relieved that just because Darwin had some good ideas, it doesn't mean everything he says has to be taken as totally gospel, or else we'd have some funny theories going!* *is more a neo-Darwinist type than anything*
And yes, I have met enough of such people in RL that it really isn't that surprising that she is for real too.
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 16:20 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Dec 2004 16:32 (UTC)One the one hand, the girl's ignorance is really, really painful. I find creationists seem to ignore anything that goes on in plants (*bows before the Holy Department of Plant Sciences*), when plants provide some really interesting evidence for evolution. On the other hand, this is so funny because such a small proportion of creationist arguments even remotely stand up properly to scrutiny, as seems to have been deomstrated here!
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 16:45 (UTC)I generally find http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-qa.html highly useful in such circumstances.
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 16:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 Dec 2004 22:08 (UTC)Good to see the reverend Usher's theories doing so well. :)
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 22:58 (UTC)*Hides*
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Date: 20 Dec 2004 13:41 (UTC)One of my favorite pieces of evidence is trees which by matching ring-widths have been shown to be over that age.
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 20:42 (UTC)As has been said, there are just so many things wrong with that...
I don't know about the biology she mentions, but the geological aspects... she hasn't studied that... or if she has, she didn't exactly take much in...
*rolls eyes* I can remember more than that, and I haven't been in the field for five years!
Lúthien
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Date: 19 Dec 2004 22:05 (UTC)I found a possible explanation, other than stupidity (ignorance on its own is curable). As explanations go, though, this is somewhat dismaying: shopping fro Christmas presents in Borders, I saw that many of the serious biology texts have a large red warning printed on the cover:
NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA