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    Icons of Evolution

    A common mistake made by individuals who are unfamiliar with science is to confuse theory with interpretation. There is only one theory of evolution defined by the drivers of evolution in the Aspect column of the table. (The exception is the last entry since predictive power is not a driver but...
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    Icons of Evolution

    Regretfully you can't stick to the same story as I was responding to this. Here is the table again for reference. Aspect Evolutionary Principle How Pathogens Use It to Evolve Resistance Specific Ancestor Example How Medicine Uses Evolution to Counter Resistance Mutation Random genetic...
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    Icons of Evolution

    The development of new antibiotics to combat the evolution of resistant strains of bacteria provides an excellent example of the application of the theory of evolution. Aspect Evolutionary Principle How Pathogens Use It to Evolve Resistance Specific Ancestor Example How Medicine Uses...
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    Now that would be a discovery for the Discovery Institute.
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    There were a number of lookalikes considered for the photoshoot including this one.
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    Yes @The Barbarian is most informative, sadly the knowledge falls on deaf ears to those who need the education.
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    This is a woefully ignorant comment typical of creationists. Evolution like science in general is not exclusively in the domain of interpreting evidence but is also falsifiable where predictions are made that either supports evolution or shows it is incomplete rather than wrong as the supportive...
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    Darwinian evolution - still a theory in crisis.

    The progress of evolution from a hypothesis to a theory is the evolution of tests and observations which support it. Time Period Type of Test or Evidence Key Discoveries / Examples Significance to Evolution 1850s Comparative Anatomy Homologous structures (e.g., forelimbs in mammals) Early...
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    Scientists speak out about evidence of Intelligent Design in nature..

    Did you even try to read my post where I explicitly stated I think the Multiverse hypothesis is practicably unfalsifiable as the probability of a collision leaving a signature on the CMB is so incredibly low. I also mentioned the scientific consensus is the CMB “cold spot” is a supervoid where I...
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    Scientists speak out about evidence of Intelligent Design in nature..

    While I do not agree with the Multiverse hypothesis which is I find to be potentially unfalsifiable as each universe is causally disconnected, it is not "unobservable, untestable, and beyond the realm of empirical science" as trotted out by ignorant creationists. Firstly the hypothesis is built...
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    Homo erectus in Java: 140,000-year-old fossils found in submerged river valley

    Typical creationist nonsense. Firstly "The 140,000-year dating relies on flawed luminescence techniques..........." OSL in this not a flawed technique where possible it is used it conjunction with other methods and their error bar values are found to overlap. Of course it would an amazing...
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    Is Gender Identity a modern social construct?

    The statues of pharaohs were never made according to the artist's perspective but from the pharaoh's. One of Egypt's greatest pharaohs Hatshepsut was a female who portrayed herself in male form with a false beard in some statues. This wasn't a case of reverse gender identity but symbolic that...
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    What you are describing is batch sampling a manufactured product, I was referring to a product being manufactured which is an important distinction. In your example the statistics is done after the event and cannot influence the quality of the product. When statistics is applied during...
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    You most certainly can use statistics to determine if an outlier is good or bad as statistics is not used as a stand alone mechanism. In the case of manufacturing a part, there are dimensional tolerances which are engineering specifications not statistical limits. When the part is manufactured...
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    Man with the world's highest IQ: 'Jesus Christ is God'

    There are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ outliers, the key is being able to distinguish between the two where a ‘good’ outlier is a rare value or event and ‘bad’ outliers are the result of error. This leads to an example which is incomprehensible at first sight, of the decay of Xe-124 (Xenon) to Te-124...
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