Well if by chance you're here cause you heard about this website from 1stperson singular i'll give you some links to a couple more active and interesting blogs:
FakePlasticNews always something to read there. and Socratic Gadfly Who writes mostly about the creationist vs. science aspect of things political. Though, he rarely replies he posts like a maniac. And feel free to comment on any of my old posts as they are starving for attention. As i said before aegri and i are venturing into another project, involving music, i'm sure it will end in tears.
Monday, May 09, 2005
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Hiatus
Aegri and Aegri's associate are busy with "other projects" forgive the complete loss of continuity we'll be back as soon as the weather changes to just the right temperature.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Creationists Take Another THWACK!
Kansas and Evolution
Creationists hiding under the guise of a philosophy called "intelligent design."
I wonder how Avida will impact this whole aspect of trying to destroy valid Scientific theories with philosophical ideas.
Creationists hiding under the guise of a philosophy called "intelligent design."
I wonder how Avida will impact this whole aspect of trying to destroy valid Scientific theories with philosophical ideas.
Avida Evolving
When Walking into your local grocery store you don't usually ask, How did i get here? or Why am i here? Unless of course you're as scatterbrain as i am--but even then it doesnt usually connote the existential weight it did when i walked into my local grocery store, and sprinted ritualistically to the magazine stand. It was there that i saw staring back at me, over the image of a primate, in bold yellow letters, the words "Testing Darwin, scientists prove evolution works." So i bought the magazine and read through the article as fast as i could. I, being an open-minded creationist, who by the way doesn't believe in the divine monarchy of christianity; nor the idea that the bible is the word or mind of god, was stunned and intrigued.
It seems that Michigan state researchers developed a computer program in the late 1990's called Avida. The program allowed them "to watch the random mutation and natural selection of digital organisms unfold over millions of generations." Now if you think of DNA as a set of instructions that tell cells how to assemble protiens, then it's easy to think of a computer program, or line of code, as virtually the same thing. These lines of code carry information on how to build a new line of code, or a new digital organism--just like DNA does in the physical world.The purpose of this program being to determine if a simple organism or line of computer code could evolve into a complex one. According to the article it has done just that.
The program was even shown to produce results similar to Richard Lenski's "longest continuously running experiment in evolution." Which profoundly demonstrated the idea of natural selection. Not only that but it also argued--with evidence to back up the aruments--against creationist ideas about intelligent design. Ideas such as "just how could they eye have evolved?" And destroyed the argument that mutations in an organism are unwelcomed and usually breeded out of a species after a few generations, and that one was based on a scientific experiment.
Though--even with the obvious breakthrougs achieved with the program--I believe that the crux of creationism was lost upon these men. The crux being that someone or something created us. Doesn't Avida in fact prove that without someone bothering to take the time to create us we would have never evolved into the "complex" organisms we've now become? After all Avida was created by these scientists right?
So why are we here? i mean, if something did create us, as those scientists created Avida, then it could be plausible that whatever did it may have done so to ponder how and why it was created. Though, that could just be nonsensical thinking. The only thing that steered me away from creationism is energy. The whole concept that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It lead me to think that if something can exist without having to be created then just maybe there was no "intelligent design" involved in our creation or evolution into being. Maybe some physiological programs won't allow themselves to compute that there was no grandiose purpose to thier existense. Maybe they need to believe that they were created for a purpose.
But,After all, in the end, people will just believe what they want to believe. Creationists will be hell bent on promoting thier beliefs and arguments. And evolutionists will do the same, albiet with much more proof than the creationists.
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For more info on Avida go to: dllab.caltech.edu/avida
Or visit discover.com
It seems that Michigan state researchers developed a computer program in the late 1990's called Avida. The program allowed them "to watch the random mutation and natural selection of digital organisms unfold over millions of generations." Now if you think of DNA as a set of instructions that tell cells how to assemble protiens, then it's easy to think of a computer program, or line of code, as virtually the same thing. These lines of code carry information on how to build a new line of code, or a new digital organism--just like DNA does in the physical world.The purpose of this program being to determine if a simple organism or line of computer code could evolve into a complex one. According to the article it has done just that.
The program was even shown to produce results similar to Richard Lenski's "longest continuously running experiment in evolution." Which profoundly demonstrated the idea of natural selection. Not only that but it also argued--with evidence to back up the aruments--against creationist ideas about intelligent design. Ideas such as "just how could they eye have evolved?" And destroyed the argument that mutations in an organism are unwelcomed and usually breeded out of a species after a few generations, and that one was based on a scientific experiment.
Though--even with the obvious breakthrougs achieved with the program--I believe that the crux of creationism was lost upon these men. The crux being that someone or something created us. Doesn't Avida in fact prove that without someone bothering to take the time to create us we would have never evolved into the "complex" organisms we've now become? After all Avida was created by these scientists right?
So why are we here? i mean, if something did create us, as those scientists created Avida, then it could be plausible that whatever did it may have done so to ponder how and why it was created. Though, that could just be nonsensical thinking. The only thing that steered me away from creationism is energy. The whole concept that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It lead me to think that if something can exist without having to be created then just maybe there was no "intelligent design" involved in our creation or evolution into being. Maybe some physiological programs won't allow themselves to compute that there was no grandiose purpose to thier existense. Maybe they need to believe that they were created for a purpose.
But,After all, in the end, people will just believe what they want to believe. Creationists will be hell bent on promoting thier beliefs and arguments. And evolutionists will do the same, albiet with much more proof than the creationists.
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For more info on Avida go to: dllab.caltech.edu/avida
Or visit discover.com
Monday, January 31, 2005
Securing the Bomb
"Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 th eU.S. has secured less nuclear material than in the 2yrs prior."-Matthew Bunn assisntant director of science, technology and public policy program at Harvard.
when i first heard this story it was May of last year, last i heard about it bush threw some money at the problem, i still dont know if the Dept. of Energy has gotten the power it needed to do something about the hazardous nuclear material. I'll do some looking and let you all know.
when i first heard this story it was May of last year, last i heard about it bush threw some money at the problem, i still dont know if the Dept. of Energy has gotten the power it needed to do something about the hazardous nuclear material. I'll do some looking and let you all know.
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Democracy
So the Iraqi elections went on without as big a murderous rampage as most were expecting, still 36 died last I heard, when an IED went off. Perhaps the recent capture of some high ranking insurgents payed off. In my cautious optimism I'd have to suspect that the real killing could begin after the election, taking out elected officials etc. From what i gather from everything i've heard so far this is just one hurtle for the Iraqi people. After this there will be a drafting of a constitution, something everyone will have a part in, unlike the elections that were boycotted by the Sunni. Though, from what i understand it may be more because of thier scant numbers than anything else.
It's been about fifty years since an election like this has taken place in Iraq. It seems, from newscasts and interviews of Iraqi's, that the U.S.'s image could gain some support from Iraqi's. In interviews with ex-patriots here in california there is a sense of pride and hope about what is happening. In Iraq there are mixed feelings some people voted no matter what, others were too scared of the insugency to make it out.
The whole purpose of our ousting of Saddam is plain to me, though, i could be wrong. It's all riding on this idea that democracy spreading in the middle east will somehow eradicate or dampen the extremism of terrorists. Islamic terrorists stuck in the 7th century and convinced that America is the great satan.
Despite the mistakes made post-war it looks as though there will be an Iraqi democracy. If it works out better than expected we could have a new ally in the fight against Islamic extremism. If it fails at worst a stronger enemy and another war.
It's been about fifty years since an election like this has taken place in Iraq. It seems, from newscasts and interviews of Iraqi's, that the U.S.'s image could gain some support from Iraqi's. In interviews with ex-patriots here in california there is a sense of pride and hope about what is happening. In Iraq there are mixed feelings some people voted no matter what, others were too scared of the insugency to make it out.
The whole purpose of our ousting of Saddam is plain to me, though, i could be wrong. It's all riding on this idea that democracy spreading in the middle east will somehow eradicate or dampen the extremism of terrorists. Islamic terrorists stuck in the 7th century and convinced that America is the great satan.
Despite the mistakes made post-war it looks as though there will be an Iraqi democracy. If it works out better than expected we could have a new ally in the fight against Islamic extremism. If it fails at worst a stronger enemy and another war.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Laura Ingraham and Right Thinking
So i'm listening to right wing radio, and there's Laura Ingraham with her smear campaign against eveything and everyone who doesn't fall in line with the path of the righteous man, also known as "right thinking." No one should really mind this, but when you complain day in and day out about how one-sided--left leaning--the mainstream media is, which is painfully true by the way, all while being blantantly one-sided yourself, it can get kinda bothersome. For instance last night's show had its share of contradictions, not that it had no redeeming quality, if you're LIBERAL enough you can see where sometimes they can actually make sense.
So, anyhow, last nite's show she starts off saying how the washington post's article on the march for life was written very well and without any sucker punches on the views of the people marching. Then, of course, she compares it to what she called "the march for death." Which is in reality the opposing view point of the march for life. She proceeds to take as many shots at those people and what they believe in as she can, until it's just redundant.
So Laura proves, once again, she's no better than any liberal-leaning newscast, talk-show host or article. At least she never went off like Brian Sussman did when he praised the B-2 bomber and made the comment "...Hey wouldn't that scare you from Allah to Jesus in no time?" If only everyone thought like these people we'd all be Right Thinking American Patriots who beleive in voo doo economics. God bless us everyone.
So, anyhow, last nite's show she starts off saying how the washington post's article on the march for life was written very well and without any sucker punches on the views of the people marching. Then, of course, she compares it to what she called "the march for death." Which is in reality the opposing view point of the march for life. She proceeds to take as many shots at those people and what they believe in as she can, until it's just redundant.
So Laura proves, once again, she's no better than any liberal-leaning newscast, talk-show host or article. At least she never went off like Brian Sussman did when he praised the B-2 bomber and made the comment "...Hey wouldn't that scare you from Allah to Jesus in no time?" If only everyone thought like these people we'd all be Right Thinking American Patriots who beleive in voo doo economics. God bless us everyone.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
7yrs. left till the end of time
oneMoreGrainOfSand
"The study of ancient cultures, and the two oldest sciences in the world of Mathematics, and Astronomy have much to offer our modern world. One could believe that we are on the verge of an evolutionary jump in our culture that was predicted by ancient astrologers, both Mesoamerican, and Western. One may infer that the end of the fourth creation as predicted by the Mayans on December 23rd, 2012 offers a precise date of the same phenomena put forward by Western Astrologers concerning the Age of Aquarius. Now that you know the world isn’t going to end on Dec 23rd, 2012, you may be wondering what will happen, and what it means. My opinion is that this is a time of progression for humans, and one should not be ignore the possible importance of these events that we are so lucky to be alive to witness. "
Sorry for the gap between postings, and loss of continuity but oh well ay?
Another 4yrs of Bush jr. it was so predictable that it scares me.
I didnt plan on this blog being anything political, it just became that way out of nowhere. the trouble is i'm very inconsistent. I plan things out and never get them written on here i hope i can change that at least slightly.
The Washington Post published an article in which MR.BUSH says the '04 election ratified his Iraq-war Policy. And you know what? He's right, that's exactly what happend.
If ratifiying a war BUSH dove into head first with erronious reasons and without having a grasp on the reality of the post-war situation, then i'd HAVE to believe that the U.S. is more dumbed down than I could have ever imagined. Yes, I have to believe that because this is a president who was told, a short time after 9/11 there was a 10kilaton Nuclear bomb somewhere in N.Y. The very same president who allowed for the shittiest job of securing nuclear material scattered all over the world. Nuclear material that could be used on the U.S. And ppl vote for him and Feel safer? i can't believe that america is anything but completely out of thier fucking minds. But hey, after all, this is america, and i guess that's enough of an excuse.
"Another cowboy for the cattle."
"The study of ancient cultures, and the two oldest sciences in the world of Mathematics, and Astronomy have much to offer our modern world. One could believe that we are on the verge of an evolutionary jump in our culture that was predicted by ancient astrologers, both Mesoamerican, and Western. One may infer that the end of the fourth creation as predicted by the Mayans on December 23rd, 2012 offers a precise date of the same phenomena put forward by Western Astrologers concerning the Age of Aquarius. Now that you know the world isn’t going to end on Dec 23rd, 2012, you may be wondering what will happen, and what it means. My opinion is that this is a time of progression for humans, and one should not be ignore the possible importance of these events that we are so lucky to be alive to witness. "
Sorry for the gap between postings, and loss of continuity but oh well ay?
Another 4yrs of Bush jr. it was so predictable that it scares me.
I didnt plan on this blog being anything political, it just became that way out of nowhere. the trouble is i'm very inconsistent. I plan things out and never get them written on here i hope i can change that at least slightly.
The Washington Post published an article in which MR.BUSH says the '04 election ratified his Iraq-war Policy. And you know what? He's right, that's exactly what happend.
If ratifiying a war BUSH dove into head first with erronious reasons and without having a grasp on the reality of the post-war situation, then i'd HAVE to believe that the U.S. is more dumbed down than I could have ever imagined. Yes, I have to believe that because this is a president who was told, a short time after 9/11 there was a 10kilaton Nuclear bomb somewhere in N.Y. The very same president who allowed for the shittiest job of securing nuclear material scattered all over the world. Nuclear material that could be used on the U.S. And ppl vote for him and Feel safer? i can't believe that america is anything but completely out of thier fucking minds. But hey, after all, this is america, and i guess that's enough of an excuse.
"Another cowboy for the cattle."
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