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Mikel

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  1. Lucid, he replied when I talked about the 98.6 degree thing. He said Again, I don't know much about this subject.
  2. Thanks Lucid. Anyone have a reply to my other post?
  3. He also said this in another post and since I do not know much about nucleotide building blocks I was wandering if one of you could help. Since creationists misrepresent and lie about science often (from what I have seen in the past) what is the truth?
  4. What were the conditions of earth's early atmosphere and why do you think so? Could abiogenesis operate in these conditions? I am wandering because I've been seeing alot of source saying it wasn't after I recieved this post on the Miller-Urey experiments:
  5. His second argument was Homochirality somehow arose in the sugars and amino acids of prebiotic soups, although there is no mechanism by which this can occur and is, in fact, prohibited by the second law of thermodynamics (law of entropy). Explain this.
  6. Omg. I just realized the problem with the first argument. At the end of the first week of the Miller-Urey experiments, two percent of the carbon had formed some of the amino acids which are used to make protein enzymes. My problem wasn't the argument but a damn definition. I'm a total idiot. I couldn't find anything about the second argument in that site.
  7. I already have another question. I started a thread for creationists to try to disprove evolution and abiogenesis. Here was the post that I do not know how to answer. I have a few questions to ask those who support abiogenesis. During abiogenesis there is an absence of enzymes which means there is no chemical reaction to make ribose, which is vital to RNA and DNA, how does this work? Homochirality somehow arose in the sugars and amino acids of prebiotic soups, although there is no mechanism by which this can occur and is, in fact, prohibited by the second law of thermodynamics (law of entropy). Explain this. He got this info from here. I tried to find something about it on the talk origins site because I didn't know the answers but I couldn't find anything.
  8. Speciation was the word I was thinking of (although it still isn't consistant with his special evolution definition). Thanks. I'll ask him where he got those definitions, too.
  9. I just heard something from a creationist I have never heard before. He said: Special Evolution: The process by which new species generate from other species due to genetically beneficial mutations. Darwinian Evolution: or Natural Selection the process whereby animals with genetically beneficial characteristics survive and breed more often than those without the given characteristic thereby reinforcing the characteristic in future generations. I would think by special evolution, he means macroevolution but he says "Due to mutations." On Darwinian evolution, it includes both micro and macro and isn't just natural selection. I'm not exactly sure if he's right and I'm just an idiot or i'm right and he's really messed up on both terms but I've never heard special evolution and I doubt he just made it up because I could really debunk his post and he'd know that. I doubt he'd be stupid enough to just make crap up. What's going on here?
  10. Have the Miller-Urey experiments ever been duplicated? I'm debating with a creationist who says they have never been able to.
  11. Mikel

    Folding@Home???

    Wait, if I delete my current folding program, won't that interfere with the 51% done meaning I won't be at 51% done on the new program or something? I'm not exactly sure how it works.
  12. Thanks guys. What do you think of this argument from another guy. I can't find anything on it. "The chances of a universe like ours forming have been calculated to be 1 in 10 raised to the 400 millionth power. When something has less that a chance of 1 in 10 raised to the 110 millionth power, it is classified as having 0 probability." Big bang probability is something that hasn't crossed my path in debating.
  13. I am aware they have had things like the "Nebraska Man" in textbooks in the past but I'm not aware of anything current. I think he's saying what were considered to be transitional fossils were found to be a subspecies because of "randomness in the chest cavity". I have no idea what he's talking about. He even said 3 of the Archaeopteryx's were hoaxes. This is just his way of dealing with knowledge of fossils I guess. He just calls them hoaxes. Yeah, i've scanned through a couple of their articles. Not much valid info.
  14. Okay, i'm back. I found a great source for what I thought would answer all my unanswered questions but It didn't with absolutely everything, so I have another question. I'm debating a new guy in some different forums who said that children were being taught outdated info on evolution in schools. I asked for an example and he gave me a paragraph on things i'm not too familiar with and what are most likely lies fed to him by the erronious icr which may be why i'm not familiar with them. Anyway, here's what he said: Are any of you familiar with anything he's talking about?
  15. Mikel

    Folding@Home???

    Kewl program. It's finally at 19% of whatever it's doing. Why can't I be in a fullscreen operation while it's working?
  16. Yeah, they don't seem to want to get up to date. They would rather blindly follow creationism. I can't wait to hear your argument on genetics, atinymonkey.
  17. That was awsome. Thank you so much. You are by far more educated in this subject and a better speaker than I.
  18. Awsome, atinymonkey. Here's the latest in the debate from him. What do you guys think?
  19. I told him, atinymonkey. I just made a reply. Oh yeah, genetics. I forgot to put that in my post. Is it my imagination or did I see your name browzing the forums? Assuming it wasn't my imagination and since you obviously can argue genetics better than me, you should make a post about it.
  20. That dumbass creationist is pissing me off. With every statement now, he's basically implying i'm a dumbass about evolution. The last thing I want to do now is show him the questions I've been having to ask about evolution. I mean check out his latest post: http://www.giveupalready.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59146&perpage=20&pagenumber=5. His name is comanderofchaos so you can identify his post. At first in his latest post he is saying i'm on a roll and that starts saying shit like "Until you can show that you have any knowledge of the subject I cannot have a level conversation with you. It turns into me giving you a lesson on evolution."
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