Did anyone register TPN in the Anthill Cool Company awards? Did you get hit with the $59 entry fee? James and Paul sent me an email this morning saying they decided to charge an entry fee after all. I’m wondering if you guys got hit. What do you think about having to pay an entry fee to register a company in some awards program? Legitimate? As James said, it costs them money to run the awards. But then again, they MAKE money from selling the magazine, isn’t this just the cost of coming up with content? What do you think? Should I fork up my hard-earned $59?
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For the Christians out there who like to tell me “there is no evidence to support the theory of evolution” – we have more!
Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly. The tropical Blue Moon butterfly has developed a way of fighting back against parasitic bacteria.
Six years ago, males accounted for just 1% of the Blue Moon population on two islands in the South Pacific.
But by last year, the butterflies had developed a gene to keep the bacteria in check and male numbers were up to about 40% of the population.
(source)
What kind of bizarre logical backflip are you going to produce to talk your way around this one? I can’t wait to see it….
G’day Cam,
How do you know its going to be a ‘bizarre logical backflip’ before you’ve even read it? Have you already closed your mind to the possibility that there might be other explanations than yours that might even be closer to the truth than yours?
I don’t know the actual situation of these butterflies, but it would seem to me that at the very least natural selection would have to be considered as a possibility.
If one percent of the population of butterflies has a natural resistance to this bacteria, then it would make sense that rest of the butterfly population would be wiped out until only the one percent was left. then these would breed and produce more resistant butterflies and the population percentage of male butterflies would increase.
This explanation requires no evolutionary development whatsoever, because all the necessary genetic information is already present in the butterfly population.
As I said, I don’t know the full story, but this should at least be considered as a possibility. Otherwise we would be open to the charge of having a closed mind.
Thanks,
Willem.
I am not getting into the debate other then to say, God is great for creating Evolution!
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Molly
Willem, natural selection is one of the ways that evolution occurs. The other way is through genetic mutations. I know it will be a logical backflip because that’s the only way you can continue to say something doesn’t exist when there is enormous evidence to support the fact that it DOES exist. And I know, from past experience, that there will still be a bunch of Xns who will try to find a way to re-model their story around this new evidence.
For hundreds of years, Christians claimed the Earth was at the center of the Universe. They threatened to murder anyone who disagreed. Finally they did a backflip on it (well, most of them did) and have managed to twist their own story around to accommodate solar centricity but STILL maintain other parts of their dogma.
For hundreds of years, Christians claimed that the Universe was created in 7 days. They threatened to murder anyone who disagreed. Finally they did a backflip on it (well, most of them did) and have managed to twist their own story around to accommodate the age of the universe but STILL maintain other parts of their dogma.
Some Xns now accept evolution (such as the Catholics) but others still deny it (like Kirk Cameron) and come up with bizarre ways of denying it, like refusing to accept carbon dating.
It’s like trying to herd cats.
Cam – Can you show beyond a reasonable doubt that the butterflies didn’t get together and pray really really hard. Maybe they even had a nectar collection drive…of course banned all gay butterflies from attending.
God likes butterflies and wanted them to survive so he made it so they could.
What’s hard about that?
Wendii
Come on, I can’t believe you guys can’t see what is happening here. God does this with the butterflies because he loves playing around with Cam and he wanted to trick him again! Why do you think it rained so much today? God was laughing so hard he started to cry! Gotcha Cam!
Molly
Cam,
Fair go mate. You didn’t answer the point. Your mind is made up before you start, and you will not even consider the other side of the debate. Natural selection does not support evolution! Evolution demands the generation of new genetic material, and natural selection reduces the amount of genetic material.
A proper scientific study of anything considers all the options. Right now you are coming with your dogma that somehow everything evolved, and you have closed your mind to the possibility that it might have happened another way. The only thing I ask of you is that you open your mind to other possibilities than your current dogmatic position.
BTW, Christians have never claimed that the world was created in 7 days. Very specifically, 6 days. On the seventh God rested. We still have that cycle today. 6 days of work, 1 day of rest. Some may choose to ignore it, but it still operates that way.
Willem.
Christians must have the easiest car rides with their kids;
“Dad, why is the sky blue?”
“God”
Dad, why is it raining?”
“God”
And then at parent teacher night;
“Do you have any idea why your son has such a poor grasp of basic science and logic? He keeps trying to water his computer”
….”God”