08 Apr 07
Originally posted by RBHILLAnswer:
5. What are Buckminsterfullerenes?
A. a collective name for all the digestive organs in a white tailed deer.
B. a form of carbon shaped like a soccer ball.
C. a group of inhibitors capable of turning off certain genes.
B. a form of carbon shaped like a soccer ball. This "new" form of carbon was discovered in 1996 by 3 scientists who won that year's nobel prize in Chemistry for their work.
08 Apr 07
Originally posted by RBHILLAnswer: False. The Bible warns, "You believe that there is one God; you do well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" (James 2:19). Your eternal salvation depends on your understanding of this truth.
6. True or False? All that God requires of you is to try and live a good life, and to believe in Him.
08 Apr 07
7. Who said it? "Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because no alternative explanation is credible the theory of evolution itself is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logical coherent evidence to be true but because the only alternative is special creation, which is clearly incredible."
A. Isaac Asimov.
B. D.M.S. Watson.
C. Dr. T.N. Tahmisian.
08 Apr 07
Originally posted by RBHILLTrue or false? When you ask a question, you already have an idea about what the answer is going to look like, and, in this case, the frame for an answer is very limited.
6. True or False? All that God requires of you is to try and live a good life, and to believe in Him.
True or false? Coming up with good questions is more important than answering 'true or false' -questions. More important in what respect?
08 Apr 07
Originally posted by RBHILLAlthough none of us is half a banana, some of are not quite the full shilling.
Answer: False. The DNA in bananas is 50% similar to human DNA, but no one would speculate that we are "half a banana." Although the field of comparative genetics has revealed some interesting facts about the similarities (and differences) of DNA among different species, it says nothing about the origin of our DNA or the historical relationship between species.
08 Apr 07
Originally posted by RBHILLIt depends what is meant by "observed". If they mean, someone sat down and watched it, then probably they are correct. However, if they mean can look through time using the fossil record, and can watch mutants arise in real time (some of which are better than the wild-type, incidentally), then they are dead wrong.
7. Who said it? "Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because no alternative explanation is credible the theory of evolution itself is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logical coherent evidence to be true but because the only alter ...[text shortened]... on, which is clearly incredible."
A. Isaac Asimov.
B. D.M.S. Watson.
C. Dr. T.N. Tahmisian.
Go out into a field. You are watching evolution doing its stuff.
08 Apr 07
Originally posted by RBHILLIn nature, living things evolve through changes in their DNA. In an animal like a chicken, DNA from a male sperm cell and a female ovum meet and combine to form a zygote -- the first cell of a new baby chicken. This first cell divides innumerable times to form all of the cells of the complete animal. In any animal, every cell contains exactly the same DNA, and that DNA comes from the zygote.
2. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Chickens evolved from non-chickens through small changes caused by the mixing of male and female DNA or by mutations to the DNA that produced the zygote. These changes and mutations only have an effect at the point where a new zygote is created. That is, two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. That one zygote cell divided to produce the first true chicken.
Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens. The zygote cell is the only place where DNA mutations could produce a new animal, and the zygote cell is housed in the chicken's egg. So, the egg must have come first.
From http://science.howstuffworks.com/question85.htm
08 Apr 07
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Originally posted by RBHILLAnswer: B) D.M.S. Watson.
7. Who said it? "Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or is supported by logically coherent arguments, but because no alternative explanation is credible the theory of evolution itself is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logical coherent evidence to be true but because the only alter ...[text shortened]... on, which is clearly incredible."
A. Isaac Asimov.
B. D.M.S. Watson.
C. Dr. T.N. Tahmisian.