09.25.09
Posted in Evolution at 12:13 pm by nemo
First Evolutionary Branching For Bilateral Animals Found
ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2009) — When it comes to understanding a critical junction in animal evolution, some short, simple flatworms have been a real thorn in scientists’ sides. Specialists have jousted over the proper taxonomic placement of a group of worms called Acoelomorpha. This collection of worms, which comprises roughly 350 species, is part of a much larger group called bilateral animals, organisms that have symmetrical body forms, including humans, insects and worms. The question about acoelomorpha, was: Where do they fit in?
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Posted in Evolution at 12:12 pm by nemo
Ancestral Populations Of India And Relationships To Modern Groups Revealed
ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2009) — In a study published in the September 24th issue of Nature, an international team describes how they harnessed modern genomic technology to explore the ancient history of India, the world’s second most populous nation.
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Posted in you've got mail at 11:43 am by nemo
RG mail
The Real News September 21, 2009 Race, class and opportunity
john a. powell: Deliberate policies created white suburbs and inner city black poverty
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4221&updaterx=2009-09-23+12%3A03%3A16
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Posted in you've got mail at 11:41 am by nemo
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/opinion/22herbert.html?th&emc=th
New York Times September 21, 2009
The Hard and Bitter Truth
By BOB HERBERT
President Obama is in the uncomfortable position of staring reality in the
face in Afghanistan. Reality is not blinking.
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Posted in you've got mail at 11:39 am by nemo
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/23/obama-jewish-settlements-isreal
The Guardian August 23, 2009
Pro-Israel groups accuse Obama of promoting ‘ethnic cleansing’
Lobby says White House demands over settlements should be viewed as anti-semitic and a danger to security
Hardline pro- Israel groups in the US have been confronting President Barack Obama’s demands for a halt to settlement expansion by accusing him of promoting the ethnic cleansing of Jews and jeopardising Israel’s security.
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Posted in you've got mail at 11:37 am by nemo
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23510.htm
The Israel Lobby’s Global Propaganda Manual
By Paul J. Balles 16 September 2009 ” Information Clearing House ” — More than 50 years ago, Vance Packard shook the commercial world with the publication of his book The Hidden Persuaders . It was, as the book jacket claims, “A revealing, often shocking explanation of new techniques of research and methods of persuasion.”
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Posted in Evolution, you've got mail at 11:34 am by nemo
sciftp
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125382470366238705.html
SCIENCE JOURNAL
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
Tracing the Origins of Human Empathy
Chimpanzees’ Caring Behavior Toward Others Hints at the Emotion’s Antiquity; the Mystery of the Contagious Yawn
By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
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Posted in Evolution, you've got mail at 11:31 am by nemo
sciftp
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/24/kirk_cameron/index.html
The sitcom star and super-Christian is giving away a new version of “On the Origin of Species,” and it’s got Nazis
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sep. 24, 2009 |
In November, Charles Darwin’s history-changing “On the Origin of Species” turns 150. And after a century and a half of archaeological discoveries and biological advances lending credence to his evolutionary theories, even Darwin would have to be impressed with the sheer endurance of those who prefer the literal, biblical version of how we all got here. People like ’80s sitcom star-turned-Christian action hero Kirk Cameron.
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09.24.09
Posted in Evolution, The Eonic Effect at 4:33 pm by nemo
From WHEE, The Photo Finish Test:
The paradigm of Darwinism tends to be taken as proven when in fact it refers to periods and places that we never observe. And it flunks the simplest test required by a theory of human evolution: the result doesn’t match the lead up, which is supposed to have arisen by natural selection.
The study of history shows us something different.
A Photo Finish Test
We can restate this as a photo finish argument, falsifying Darwinism. The problem is that ‘history’ and ‘evolution’ overlap, so our account is moving towards a photo finish contradiction. We are beginning to see something totally different from what Darwinists propose. Nor is it likely that earlier human emergence could be something completely different from this. The eonic effect shows us direct examples of the evolution of social units, religions, cultural entities, at a high level, in a non-genetic macroevolution. The core nature of man and his culture springs from the very period Darwinists assume for their account. Are we to suppose without proof this was purely genetic? The brief photo finish of human evolution since the beginning of civilization is thus beginning to suggest a surprising set of facts.
Darwinism fails a reality check, given the eonic effect, and thus flunks a photo finish test. If someone says the racehorse is one color, and the photo finish shows another, the original claim comes under suspicion. If the claim is made that cultural and biological evolution are distinct, we can construct (below) an evolution of freedom argument demanding an overlap of some unified homogenous evolution. Over and over people have suspected something is missing in Darwin’s theory. We sense immediately that we have found it, and in our own history. The search for a ‘something’ that might ‘cause evolution’ against the random suddenly becomes visible in our own history, seen in the very pattern of human activity taken over the long term. We see conclusive evidence of a global aspect to evolution.
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Posted in links at 2:28 pm by nemo
Some recent posts
( and the previous list here: http://darwiniana.com/2009/09/06/log-of-recent-posts-14/)
Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Evolution at 2:13 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
Huxley and Social Darwinism
It is T. H. Huxley himself who spotted the flaw in the theory of natural selection in his work, Evolution and Ethics, and in the process unwittingly exposed a paradox in the theory he had so long defended. His perception was that there must be something else beside the ‘law of evolution’, survival of the fittest, at work, for man was condemned to oppose its effects in practice, on ethical grounds. Whence, if we accept this dualism, comes this evolution # 2? Here the data of the eonic effect shows us at once two levels of evolutionary action.
One of the most remarkable things about early Darwinism is both Huxley’s initial enthusiasm for Darwin (but not his natural selection) and his much later sense in Evolution and Ethics that there was something missing in Darwinism: why, if natural selection is the mechanism, do we move in practice to oppose it?
That’s a perfect question for the student of the eonic effect, which shows how these ‘evolutions #1 and 2′ interact in history.
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Posted in Evolution at 12:28 pm by nemo
From Telic Thoughts
I do not mean that the doctrine of Evolution as held by practising biologists is a Myth. It may be shown, by later biologists, to be a less satisfactory hypothesis than was hoped fifty years ago. But that does not amount to being a Myth. [Evolution]is a genuine scientific hypothesis. But we must sharply distinguish between Evolution as a biological theorem and popular Evolutionism or Developmentalism which is certainly a Myth.
“The Funeral of a Great Myth” – C.S. Lewis
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Posted in General at 12:13 pm by nemo
Report: CIA Interrogations Informed By Bad Science
By Pamela Hess
September 23, 2009 7:16AM
The list of techniques the CIA used included prolonged sleep deprivation — six days in at least one instance — being chained in painful positions, exploitation of prisoners’ phobias, and waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning that President Barack Obama has called torture. Three CIA prisoners were waterboarded, two of them extensively.
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Posted in Science at 12:10 pm by nemo
nce, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience
John Wilkins points to a post by Nick Smyth with the delightful title Science, Pseudoscience and Bollocks on the demarcation problem and what Smyth thinks is a flawed tactic in the war against ID/creationism. Smyth’s basic argument is that labeling ID/creationism as non-science, or as pseudoscience, fails because there is no clear demarcation between science and non-science; we do not have criteria such that we can draw a bright line between science and all other human intellectual enterprises.
More on the science issue at Panda’s Thumb.
Current science, in good Kantian fashion, cannot locate the data for much of what it imperialistically claims to be able to explain, in principle.
Science in its sophmoric mode issues a promissory note that it explains everything, and then bungles almost everything that isn’t physics, Darwinism especially.
You folks should stop being sophmoric (one year in college was enough) and experience a dose of realism.
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Posted in Evolution at 12:02 pm by nemo
Science, Pseudoscience and Bollocks
3QuarksDaily goes through a lot of ‘standard blather’ on the nature of science.
Frankly, since the exercise is one of hatred of creationism, I have to wonder if the motives are really science. I hold no brief for creationists but they infuriate scientists because they see that Darwinism isn’t science. If Darwinism isn’t good science, then all the fine details of scientific methology get a bit pinched.
Popper, before he changed his story, got the point well: Darwinism is a metaphysical construct based on natural selection mythology.
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Posted in Evolution at 11:46 am by nemo
Dawkins’ evidence for evolution
Simon Mayo – BBC Daily Mayo
from dawkins site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mayo#playepisode1
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Posted in Evolution at 11:44 am by nemo
Evolution Is Irreversible
By resurrecting ancient proteins, researchers find that evolution can only go forward
Posted September 23, 2009
EUGENE, Ore.–A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings — the result of the first rigorous study of reverse evolution at the molecular level — appear in the Sept. 24 issue of Nature.
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Posted in Evolution at 11:42 am by nemo
Flatfish support Darwin’s evolutionary theory, research claims
A fish that lead naturalist Charles Darwin to question his theory of evolution has been found to fit perfectly into his research following examination of a series of fossils.
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Posted in Evolution at 11:38 am by nemo
New film, Darwin’s Dilemma, examines Intelligent Design
PRNewswire-USNewswire) – The debate over Darwin rages on in America’s heartland as intelligent design comes to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History September 29 with the Southwestern debut of Darwin’s Dilemma, a new film on the challenges to evolution in the fossil record. To view a trailer and clips from the film please visit www.darwinsdilemma.org.
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Posted in Evolution at 11:36 am by nemo
Why can’t intelligent design be taught, too?
Date published: 9/24/2009
I read with interest the editorials and letters on the subject of evolution versus intelligent design.
I will state up front that my issue is not which one is correct. I personally believe that there is a God and that He created the universe in general and human beings in particular.
I don’t want to debate with others who disagree with me. I am not interested in changing their opinion or forcing my opinion on them. Please reciprocate.
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Posted in global warming at 11:27 am by nemo
Global Warming May Dent El Niño’s Protective Shield From Atlantic Hurricanes, Increase Droughts
ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2009) — El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to global warming, according to an article in the September 24 issue of the journal Nature.
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Posted in biology at 11:25 am by nemo
How We Know A Dog Is A Dog: Concept Acquisition In The Human Brain
ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2009) — A new study explores how our brains synthesize concepts that allow us to organize and comprehend the world.
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Posted in Evolution at 11:23 am by nemo
‘Junk’ DNA Cut-and-paste Protein: Discovery May Prove Invaluable In Quest For Gene Therapies
ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2009) — Scientists have identified how a protein enables sections of so-called junk DNA to be cut and pasted within genetic code – a finding which could speed development of gene therapies.
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09.23.09
Posted in global warming at 1:38 pm by nemo
Obama Delivers Speech to UN on Climate Change: “We Risk Consigning Future Generations to an Irreversible Catastrophe”
By Barack Obama, AlterNet. Posted September 22, 2009.
The president called for investing in renewable energy, promoting greater efficiency, and slashing our emissions to reach our targets.
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Posted in Evolution, World History and The Eonic Effect at 1:36 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
1.2.2 Evolution and Ethics
It is altogether apt that the metaphor of a trial (reference to Darwin on Trial) should appear in the Darwin debate, Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Evolution, The Eonic Effect at 12:03 pm by nemo
A glimpse of evolution
Just at the boundary of history and evolution in the transition to world history we can catch a glimpse of how evolution happens for man.
But noone wants to know or look. It would destabilize the ongoing regimes.
Everyone is an ostrich on evolution, they don’t really want to know, and instead defend speculations about deep time, that noone can really refute, as the way evolution works.
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