tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65939704647700904892024-02-18T22:55:31.899-08:00S is for ScienceMaximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-39845093595651500072011-01-08T04:13:00.000-08:002011-01-08T04:13:26.917-08:00Why We Have to be Ever Vigilant<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347">British Medical Journal</a> concluded the Wakefield study was fraudulent.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #56554b; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> ...And now, not shockingly, the LFF has already started to use it to chip away at evolution and sound science standards by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #56554b; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/106937789.html?showAll=y&c=y" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">claiming</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #56554b; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><u><b> </b></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #56554b; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><u><b>the state’s biology textbooks give too much credibility to Darwin’s theory.</b></u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #56554b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Read the full article </span><a href="http://blog.au.org/2010/11/11/louisiana-alert-family-forum-is-targeting-the-science-curriculum/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></span></span>Maximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-23626990992289130882010-11-10T04:21:00.000-08:002010-11-10T04:23:37.473-08:00Making of a Scientist<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On our daily drive home form school my daughter usually has several questions about every conceivable topic, yesterday was no different. Being on a quest to blow her first bubble, and armed with a piece of Double Bubble bubble gum, and knowing she has to chew out all of the sugar first, she asks me how much sugar is in gum, and how can you tell. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My mind turns to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Archimedes and the legend that he discovered displacement theory. Though to test our troubling gum question we would not be able to use displacement as a measuring tool, we could use a scale and measure the weight difference and get pretty close.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Step 1; Weigh gum and record weight</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Step 2; Chew gum till no longer any sugar left in gum</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Step 3; Weigh gum and record weight</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Step 4; Check record difference in weight</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Step 5; Add sugar to scale until weighs as much as difference</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Step 6; Measure by volume how much sugar.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15px;">The un-chewed gum weighed in at about 6 grams. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After chewing the gum didn't even register a gram. Weight of gum after chewing less than a gram.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Total sugar in a piece of Double Bubble bubblegum approximately 6 grams of sugar or about a table spoon.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Doing an experiment with your daughter priceless!</span></span><br />
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We Have some good fun and discuses the validity of the resurrection of <a href="http://www.josephthemusical.com/">Jesus Christ</a> a popular figure in modern <a href="http://www.godhatesfags.com/">Christianity</a>. Being more of a biblical scholar topic not heavy on the science I don't have as much to offer, that doesn't stop me from talking any way. So go and down load it today and listen away!<br />
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<a href="http://agnosticsalvation.podomatic.com/">WtEL</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captured from <a href="http://unreasonablefaith.com/2010/10/23/if-this-sticker-is-blue/">Unreasonable Faith</a></td></tr>
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</div>Maximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-20557960753827225352010-10-20T04:08:00.000-07:002010-10-20T04:08:52.881-07:00Creationism, Young Earth and PoliticsDoes anyone really take fundamentalist claims seriously? Really? Why is it important? What should we do about it?<br />
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Whooping cough and an epidemic resurgence of diseases that are preventiable with vacines.<br />
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Thanks to a campaign of don't trust your local scientist, people like <a href="http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html">Jenny McCarthy</a> have convinced millions of people to not get vaccinated. Now children are dyeing of a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/2010-10-17-whooping-cough_N.htm">preventible disease</a>.<br />
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Thanks to tireless hard work by millians of us and a constant challenge to the <a href="http://www.discovery.org/">Discovery Institute</a>, they are now on the ropes and resorting to "it's all that atheist Hitler's fault" attacks.<br />
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Join your local skeptics group, add your voice to the few and make them many.<br />
See an article, a news show, or adds that portray false facts, leads to false conclusions or is just an out right lie, Write, blog or just be vocal. We all need to raise our voice and be heard.<br />
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A perfect example;<br />
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<b>On the follow up from </b><b><a href="http://sisforscience.blogspot.com/2010/09/was-hitler-converted-by-darwin-is.html">WETL</a>,</b><b> lets look at some of the claims made about Mutations.</b><br />
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Claims from the creation camp on modern evolution;<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">1. Mutations only remove information rather than add information.</span><br />
<blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite">2. Mutations are always negative and would never make the recipient of said mutation more likely to procreate.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite">3. Mutations are too rare to have any real impact upon a species.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> </span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAQrZa0kbRMETCPg6W0FBis8Xy30_831JaDRtVP7HNCvy1ojXxuGkldOgnU9_pdH9YLg46KnL7wLE63K-PFJqnkk1nordgRdscPSj1Yeq46WUI9xHVkpEgMgPqHtATl5Q6rLRCjoz9TK8/s1600/images-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAQrZa0kbRMETCPg6W0FBis8Xy30_831JaDRtVP7HNCvy1ojXxuGkldOgnU9_pdH9YLg46KnL7wLE63K-PFJqnkk1nordgRdscPSj1Yeq46WUI9xHVkpEgMgPqHtATl5Q6rLRCjoz9TK8/s200/images-1.jpeg" width="200" /></a><br />
<blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite"><blockquote style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 1em;" type="cite">6. No single mutation could possibly give a species any discernible <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">advantage.</span> </span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">One simple example, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk">Milk</a>. Those of us who are able to drink milk can thank a mutation for this. The cultures who raise herding animals developed the mutation that allows us to digest milk. Since the majority of people in the northern hemisphere have this ability this simple example shows us how a mutation can be beneficial.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b>Lets compare this mutation with the claims above.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> 1. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Mutations only remove information rather than add information</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">False.</span></i> The information added is the ability to process Lactase.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2.Mutations are always negative and would never make the recipient of said mutation more likely to procreate.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">False.</span></i>The mutation is positive giving the species the ability to consume a new food group, which can give the species food and water during times when there is low food sources, say winter time for example.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">3.Mutations are too rare to have any real impact upon a species.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">False.</span></i>The majority of humans have this mutation, the largest numbers are in the northern hemisphere. Yet it was only one mutation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">6.No single mutation could possibly give a species any discernible </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">advantage.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">False.</span></i> What is the advantage of a mutation like the ability to metabolize milk after our first few years? A renewable food source, calcium, protean as well as a food source that we are able to turn into a storable food. Say cheese just for one example.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">When dealing with false claims it is important for us to take apart each and every claim and show how they can be false and misleading.</span><br />
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This Month we interview <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DonExodus2?blend=2&ob=1">Don Exodus</a> from YouTube, about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans';"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-klinghoffer/the-dark-side-of-darwinis_b_630627.html">David Klinghoffer</a> and the article in the "Huff" <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">Huffington Post</a>, about , of course, Darwin and Hitler and how Hitler was a quire boy until he read Origin of Species. I contend that the Huff is a online rag and Marshal contends that it's not, don't tell him I think he probably is right I rarely ever read it. We go on to discuss another <a href="http://www.evanwiggs.com/">website</a> and more tired old <a href="http://www.evanwiggs.com/articles/reasons.html#Introduction">arguments</a> against evolution. marshal boiled down the long list to just a few we discuss them on the show and I will take them apart one at a time in future posts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans';"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1. Mutations only remove information rather than add information.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2. Mutations are always negative and would never make the recipient of</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">said mutation more likely to procreate.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">3. Mutations are too rare to have any real impact upon a species.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">4. Most organs and biological features are far to complex to be the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">result of random mutations. (Irreducible complicity).</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">5. The Cambrian Explosion itself disproves the notion that life</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">evolves slowly. In the span of 20 million years we witnessed the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">development of most complex life forms; where prior all life as simple</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">single celled life.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">6. No single mutation could possibly give a species any discernible</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">advantage.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">7. Punctuated equilibrium has been demonstrated to be impossible.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">8. DNA or RNA could never randomly come into existence. Life could</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">never have formed without a designer. (note: not related to evolution a</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">common tactic)</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">9. The second law of thermo dynamics means that life is impossible.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(my note: Obviously not true because were it life would be impossible</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">on earth whether creationism or evolution were true).</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">10. The sun is not enough to overcome entropy. “Raw energy from the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">sun, if not for the ability of living things to convert it to useful</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">energy such as sugars, proteins etc. would be a destroyer of life. In</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">many of the scenarios of primitive life the UV radiation is looked as</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the driver of the mutations need for evolution, but it conversely</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">would destroy the organism as well if not protected. In fact the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">mutation rate being very slow and the energy being very fast the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">destruction would be very many times faster than the creation. Raw</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">energy from the sun, cannot create the specified complexity needed for</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">life. It can only cause complexity to be lost in mutations. In the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">labs scientists use sophisticated equipment to polymerize proteins in</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the right way. If sunlight were to enter this process it would</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">destroy the proteins.” ( from <a href="http://www.evanwiggs.com/">http://www.evanwiggs.com</a>) (note: sounds</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">like his conclusions are mere assertions to me).</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">11. The Big Bang is false. (note: not related to evolution).</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">12. “The fossil record does not show an increasing complexity.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Evolutionist Dan McShea of the University of Michigan had approached</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">this question in a detailed study of the backbones of creatures that</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">evolutionists believe represent ancestor – descendant pairs. He wanted</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to see if the ‘descendant’ was more complex than the ‘ancestor’ on the</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">average for each case. What he found was no trend at all. Other</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">scientists studied the shells of ammonoids, a spiral shelled creature,</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to see if apparently related types got more complex higher in the rock</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">strata and found there was absolutely no trend. Creationists would</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">expect this result of these studies. McShea said: “Everybody knows</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that organisms get more complex as they evolve. The only trouble with</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">what everyone knows is that there is no evidence it’s true”</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.evanwiggs.com/">http://www.evanwiggs.com/</a>) (note: this argument contradicts the claims</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">about the Cambrian Explosion about the rate at which life simple to</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">complex.)</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">13. Where are the transitional fossils?</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">14. The theories regaurding Bird evolution are fabrications.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">• Archaeopteryx, which has been shown as a fully formed bird has been</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">dated as evolving before many of the dinosaurs with allegedly</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">primitive feathers.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">• The Archaeoraptor hoax from China in 1999 caused a cloud of “faked</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">fossil’ that hangs over everything coming out of China. (note: a</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">single incident of fraud completely discredits all subsequent claims?</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Wonder if he would apply this same standard to Christianity?)</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">• Scale cells could never have evolved into feather cells.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></span>Maximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-37960567270206272462010-06-09T05:28:00.000-07:002010-06-09T05:28:08.871-07:00Design, what does it mean to be designed.We all know what it means to be designed don't we?<br />
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Marshal, from Agnostic Salvation Hour, and I just finished another podcast for, Where the Evidence Leads. In this podcast we discuss the book, A Lawyers Case for God. One of the arguments the author uses is when you see design you recognize it, and uses this argument for proof that the universe shows signs of being designed and thusly created by a designer, namely god.<br />
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So how do we determine if something has been designed?<br />
In the poorly written A Lawyer's Case for a God. In this book the argument goes something like this, If you spied a robot lying in the sand you would know it was designed. Then the writer implies the universe shows signs of design so therefor it is designed and that means a designer. The Intelligent Design or ID for short, uses the same poor logic with life on earth.<br />
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So how would we know the robot is designed. I mean it seams obvious if you just look at it. Ok, so it does look like something made. What exactly makes it look that way. Well it's made of materials that we recognize as man made, metal, plastic and glass. Next we see it is held together by manufactured fasteners, such as screws, nuts and bolts. What else do we notice? Most every one who makes something from crafts to cars, puts there mark on it. Paintings get signed, buildings have a cornerstones, almost everything will have a mark on it. So we look for a manufactures mark, an icon, symbol or just the made by sticker. Yet there is more evidence, when something is made we can trace it back to the manufacturer, often we can find where, when and even who made the item. Now we know with out a doubt it was made by some one and there for it has a creator or designer.<br />
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This logic by analogy is often used when the I.D. group make claims like "DNA is a code" and if it is a code then it is designed. This is nothing more than pseudoscience by analogy.<br />
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Another example we can use is a painting. We know a painting when we see one right? Sure it has some kind of canvas often a would frame, nails to hold the frame together, staples to hold the canvas on the frame plus there will almost always be a signature. What about other paintings or pictures in nature as the one I've shown here... not only does it show a mans face but the model was listening to an ipod. LOL<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">nuff said</span></span>Maximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-89165320864920213272010-05-26T04:07:00.000-07:002010-05-26T04:07:12.775-07:00Everyone Clap for Hand Fish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisN4s_RMvqQamBHFV8BfYBttxiqGPWMwZlNoadZOQ7qKW9Fu4MB8hKg312nwQ3MxeLp_k8ejZCdXLWzFpr_HmEmnKAJEA92ktSlFIrwX9pn0g-hlz9MazwPxkfqdvmkwTFumOmUmO6YNz6/s1600/480handfish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisN4s_RMvqQamBHFV8BfYBttxiqGPWMwZlNoadZOQ7qKW9Fu4MB8hKg312nwQ3MxeLp_k8ejZCdXLWzFpr_HmEmnKAJEA92ktSlFIrwX9pn0g-hlz9MazwPxkfqdvmkwTFumOmUmO6YNz6/s320/480handfish.jpg" /></a></div>Hand fish are an extremely rare and unusual fish, using there fins as hands to move around.<br />
Examples like this show how the diversity of life is evidence for the evolution,<br />
Unfortunately we are still bombarded with poor logic and sometimes just plain ignorance when it comes to the natural world.<br />
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Synthetic Life or is it assembly?<br />
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I defiantly see it as assembly. What has essentially happened is from a not so good movie (albiet a better real life story) Tucker and his car. when they first built it they used off the shelf car parts with a new body and used the car to help get funding to build a whole new car.<br />
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Now this only works as an analogy. What really was really done was that pieces of dna were assembly and then used to replace the dna in an already functional cell. That is where it gets really amazing, the cell worked.<br />
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So now we have a brand new kind of life. What really is fascinating is this is just the first step. Soon there will be Wholly new life forms and quite possibly made from different building blocks.<br />
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So what could this seemingly Frankenstein concept really do for us to help. One we can use this type of technology to make viruses that cure cancer, as well as a host of other diseases. How about an organism that breaks down CO2 faster better, and can be used to filter coal burning power plants. Instead of changing an organism's existing dna we now may be able to completely build it from the ground up.<br />
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For more info see links below.<br />
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7751164/We-need-a-real-debate-about-Synthia.html<br />
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/631<br />
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&q=craig+venter+synthetic+life&aq=1z&aqi=g-z3g-c1g6&aql=&oq=Craig+Venter&gs_rfai=<br />
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/synthetic_genome<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A&feature=relatedMaximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-61227382333980388292010-05-16T03:58:00.000-07:002010-05-16T03:58:11.737-07:00Science Still Rules in Missouri<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc59RJfYwgtKq1dWj9gbFdKjUEDzQ9Fcv0LM4Hr-nieqQlDniN5WhEwqZa-ndyHslZ2sd3MAO9wFjH-lJa6MXnjNHQoACrt5CigIVnYPFT2HtMfwUJPOQGkKmOgtN-Gfc2mGQh_JcEZUNU/s1600/images-5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc59RJfYwgtKq1dWj9gbFdKjUEDzQ9Fcv0LM4Hr-nieqQlDniN5WhEwqZa-ndyHslZ2sd3MAO9wFjH-lJa6MXnjNHQoACrt5CigIVnYPFT2HtMfwUJPOQGkKmOgtN-Gfc2mGQh_JcEZUNU/s320/images-5.jpeg" /></a></div>Recently the was another very sneaky bill set up to allow creation nonsense in Missouri class rooms<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The emails have, over time dwindled with the mighty help of <a href="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes</a>. Yet I still have a few die hards telling me our <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslimfaith.asp">President is really a Muslim</a>, A certain senator is demanding a bigger plane, so on and so on. Sometimes politely sometimes not so politely I inform the sender and all CC, that the contents of there email is mistaken.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtcE3BYdtrZTb_9K2Q1lM0DU4VD8HUwQ2F2TB5EMb3N_ZLd27qcioHlIoDx1ShJ1CmRP1toBante39m-CuWBZMEQ4EEjyUa_OjAQExN6Gv02HIOeyWpr5anDumbbPNKAybHf4sRuQyTs5/s1600/images-4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now comes the onslaught of "National Day of Prayer", and the recent court ruling against it. All I can think of is an echo chamber and the words "sunday sunday sunday".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then there's the email telling me "our country has never gone with out a "National Day of Prayer", Sorry it was started in the 50's to help fend off the godless Communists.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The latest quoting President Reagan, (full disclosure I liked Reagan allot) the email goes on to tell a false history of the National Day of Prayer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So what do all of these emails have in common, start theme to Jeperdy? Alix, what is prayer?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My question is what does science say about prayer? Change game show to "The $64,000 Question"</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKrvnKyVtvr_S_z3i9Dlu6PXWIdxbbOJT3dECfA9_UVpMBKE0ioqCUYJfTikLUpUycRLeyLtupXGSZVvS2QHVCpFf0SXPfV13Df6Np4O7EFZRw_QCfe3nQbDfHarjNVXMmXHC92ZstEYhL/s1600/images-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKrvnKyVtvr_S_z3i9Dlu6PXWIdxbbOJT3dECfA9_UVpMBKE0ioqCUYJfTikLUpUycRLeyLtupXGSZVvS2QHVCpFf0SXPfV13Df6Np4O7EFZRw_QCfe3nQbDfHarjNVXMmXHC92ZstEYhL/s320/images-1.jpeg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lets look at the latest </span><a href="http://study of prayer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">study of prayer </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">funded by the very questionable </span><a href="http://www.templeton.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Templeton Foundation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&_r=1">Here</a> is an excellent article on the study. This study took a common type of heart surgery, and did a blind study on what happen to those who were prayed for and those who were not. For an idea on how blind study works try my post on </span><a href="http://sisforscience.blogspot.com/2010/01/scotch-double-blind-and-coke.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scotch</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The results showed there was no difference in post surgery complications in either the group who were prayed for and didn't know it and the group who were not prayed for and didn't know they were prayed for. The group who was prayed for and knew they were prayed for had an increase in post op complications. Prayer didn't seam to work, in a positive way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Conclusions? Being prayed for behind the curtain doesn't seam to do any thing, however expectations of being prayed for seemed to decrease the amount of help. So prayer, like esp, divining rods, and holy water only seam to work "<a href="http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx">Post Hoc</a>".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How about a National Day of No Prayer, and lets see if we are better off.</span><br />
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Well of course the dropped ball. It travels the least distance. Right? Not really.<br />
lets look at what is going on. Get in your car have some one else drive. Now sit still and drop the ball. Next head down a straight road at a good speed. Repeat the drop it. What happened? It took about the same time didn't it? The first test the relative speed of the car was zero, then the speed was say fifty mph. You can do this in your head if you want. They both "fell" at the same speed whether or not the car was moving.<br />
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So what is going on here? People equate time with distance. This is only natural as it takes time to move a distance. Objects fall in time at the same rate as all other objects regardless of weight or size. So when an object falls it is pulled down at the same rate wether or not it is moving laterally with the ground or not. So when you toss an object level with the ground it will fall at the same rate as an object dropped. This principle is what allows us to have satellites in orbit.<br />
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A beautiful experiment to prove this point was done on <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-simultaneous-bullet-release.html">Mythbuster's</a>, where they shoot a bullet and drop a bullet.<br />
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MaxMaximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-22533663636581793272010-04-26T04:15:00.000-07:002010-04-26T04:15:40.068-07:00Question One<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRe-9JRyGem2zinjqC9yvuhAp-i4bGrO291PDs_lRICJR-_NxqT43oXawAk2p4DJ9IEb2TZ4MAA4imdJIW_MRNP4imBwuJ42DgbsYW6a5eha1dp1DhMEzzDMCuIGIcBBI3BdZzdGxkrfBw/s1600/images-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRe-9JRyGem2zinjqC9yvuhAp-i4bGrO291PDs_lRICJR-_NxqT43oXawAk2p4DJ9IEb2TZ4MAA4imdJIW_MRNP4imBwuJ42DgbsYW6a5eha1dp1DhMEzzDMCuIGIcBBI3BdZzdGxkrfBw/s320/images-1.jpeg" /></a>Does Heat Rise or Fall?<br />
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If you put your hand above a candle then beside it that should answer it. So heat rises, right?<br />
No, Hot air rises for he same reason ice and ships float, as well as lids pop off in microwaves.<br />
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Displacement. This is where an material like air is heated the molecules gain energy and vibrate more. The result is they begin to take up more room. Essentially making them less dense. Being less dense they rise above the denser matter and "float" up. As water freezes, becomes a crystal, the molecular alignment causes the "ice" to become less dense, takes up less room. Hence floats.<br />
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Fires in zero or very low gravity, extinguish themselves since the hotter air does not rise and the oxygen is not replaced due to lack of convection.Maximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-61907542406664469412010-04-25T04:17:00.000-07:002010-04-25T04:18:15.080-07:00Hubble turns twenty and doesn't even act like a teenager<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyrnaJa8D7CXSLiub3t5A91h5drZtKmvfYzeFhqoIM9XQPQNu4TYC4Ge1_X4uMKN5N5rOZAhsypl6cKdbydf73a4HtH1SsZGm1WkCSFg2cAGm0njzl9eIPZIn1Khg4i-Ax7bCC47rTtQt/s1600/story.hubbletelescope.gi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinyrnaJa8D7CXSLiub3t5A91h5drZtKmvfYzeFhqoIM9XQPQNu4TYC4Ge1_X4uMKN5N5rOZAhsypl6cKdbydf73a4HtH1SsZGm1WkCSFg2cAGm0njzl9eIPZIn1Khg4i-Ax7bCC47rTtQt/s320/story.hubbletelescope.gi.jpg" /></a></div>Wow has it been Twenty years already. The Hubble has done for science's image more than any other scientific instrament out there. When talk of letting the Hubble go by the wayside and die in orbit my heart sank. and then the fantastic rescue mission, the most complicated repair mission in space yet.<br />
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For me the greatest discovery of Hubble has to be when we pointed the lens to the <a href="http://hubblesite.org/gallery/movie_theater/lookdeep/">darkest place in the Sky</a>. The images we received of millions of galaxies sent shivers down my spine.<br />
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Here's a <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/index.html">link</a> to some great pictures.Maximus-Primushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02431296160475149205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593970464770090489.post-91131950459013357802010-04-22T04:01:00.000-07:002010-04-22T04:01:51.588-07:00Re-Writing several of my former post.Sorry about the Hiatus, we had a death in the family. For the next few post I will be on the back burner and rewriting a few of my old post, trying to make them "more better". lol. Anyone who is a regular, thanks for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: line-through;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: line-through;">patients</span> being patient.<div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Look for the podcast <a href="HTTP://WWW.FREETHOUGHTRADION.COM/">Agnostic Salvation Hour</a>, WTEL3 ( where the evidence leads ) next week on <a href="http://agnosticsalvation.podomatic.com/">PodOmatic</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a>.</span><br />
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Science city was great fun for our daughter, the water maze at the city park and the sewer pipe slide were the two favs, though she really did like arresting me at the crime lab! As most kids will, she ran from spot to spot, we as adults felt compelled to make her stop and read about the exhibits, as parents are wont to do.<br />
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This was more of a children's museum than an actual science museum and to our pleasant surprise we found many items from the defunct KCK children's museum in use here. Over all, the museum was heavy on the City and light on the science. Several of the exhibits didn't work and there were many maintenance issues. From what I understand, Union Station and Science City run in the red. This has allot to do with our communities not supporting our museums as well as they are supported in other major cities.<br />
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Keep your eyes open, the museum seams to be housing what can only be a ufo.<br />
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