4th Grade Quiz in SC

[thatlookseasy]

this is why the church is losing so many from the younger generation. they're forcing people to look at those two sets of evidence and ignore their brains and go with choice number one, and they've constructed the debate framework so that it's impossible to properly fit into option one unless you entirely reject number two as a postulation of arrogant god-rejecting men who have been tricked by the devil. thus most people don't even take a second glance and throw the first one out the window, baby, bathwater, and all.

christianity must change or it will die.

Oh, things are changing

http://www.nbcnews.c...y/#.UX2LlMqRfTw

Pope: Creation vs. evolution clash an ‘absurdity’

Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries — particularly the United States and his native Germany — between creationism and evolution was an “absurdity,” saying that evolution can coexist with faith.

The pontiff, speaking as he was concluding his holiday in northern Italy, also said that while there is much scientific proof to support evolution, the theory could not exclude a role by God.

“They are presented as alternatives that exclude each other,” the pope said. “This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and being as such.”

He said evolution did not answer all the questions: “Above all it does not answer the great philosophical question, ‘Where does everything come from?’”

[lightsout]

Oh, things are changing

http://www.nbcnews.c...y/#.UX2LlMqRfTw

A field of science that is starting to make breakthroughs is abiogenesis. Basically, the idea is:

-simple chemicals (present on earth from the earliest formations of earth)

-became polymers (a natural event), then polymers replicated (a natural event)

-then hypercycle (a new level of organization whereby self-replicative units are connected in a cyclic, autocatalytic manner. The self-replicative units are themselves (auto)catalytic cycles. The hypercycle is a specific model of the chemical origin of life, pioneered by Eigen and Schuster. From random distributions of chemicals, the hypercycle model seeks to find and grow sets of chemical transformations that include self-reinforcing loops.Hypercycles are very similar with autocatalytic systems in that both represent a cyclic arrangement of catalysts which themselves are cycles of reactions. The difference of hypercycles is that the catalysts that constitute them are themselves self-replicative)

-then protobiont (evolutionary precursors of prokaryotic cells, which are cells without a nucleus)

-finally, bacteria (prokaryotic cells)

Anyway, even if this doesn't pan out for us and we are still stuck wondering how life started, the answer is "we don't know yet".

[PhillyB]

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[SZ James (banned)]

That comic actually exists

smdh

[PhillyB]

That comic actually exists

smdh

i grew up on them. this is how my worldview was formed, K-12, via propaganda like this and a religious homeschool curriculum that reflected the same ideology.

it's a goddamn miracle i don't still believe it. this sort of socialization is so so powerful

[PhillyB]

the part about leaky finding a human skull under australopithecines is new to me, i actually want to read their source for that

edit: nevermind it was kent hovind hahahaha

[Chimera]

Fun evolution fact: all mammals have 5 fingers (thanks to a common ancestor), but have evolved radically different uses

• A human has five fingers with one that evolved an opposable thumb to hold tools.
  
• A panda has five fingers with a wrist bone that evolved to strip leaves that looks like sixth finger.
  
• A horse has five fingers and walks on a giant thumbnail.
  
• A gazelle has five fingers and walks on the nails of its index and middle finger.
  
• A cat has five fingers walking on four and the front pad of its hand — the rest of the hand stretches upward with a little thumb up high.
  
• A whale has five fingers that evolved into a single flipper.
  
• A bat has five fingers that evolved into the ribs of a wing.
  

what about a crocodile's front feet?

[Bronn]

I've not read every post word for word, but please tell me that someone has mentioned transitional fossils at some point.

[Jase]

transitional fossils

[PhillyB]

tra-

DAMNNN YOUUUUU

[TheRumGone]

[SZ James (banned)]

I posted a funny response to the hybrid transitional fossil argmuent and I don't think anyone clicked on it

That makes me a sad Pandahorse :(