Recent content by Barbarian

About 80 percent of wild pandas live in Sichuan province. Not many in the city limits of Chengdu, though.

Northwest Washington state, USA. Most of the bulbs sold in the US are grown in this area. It's no mystery why people love tulips; they have amazing colors.

I'm not fancy in my beer tastes. Standard product from a good brewer works for me: "Hello darkness, my old friend..."

KV-44-v1; I don't think he means to oppose God. I think his pride won't let him submit his desires to God's will.

change scutes to feathers in birds and crocodiles, They also have scutes. Scutes are scales that are found in birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs (pretty much all archosaurs). The scutes of birds and crocodiles can be induced to form feathers. Which is not surprising, since many dinosaurs...

They invented your new doctrines. You're merely copying them. St. Augustine pointed out that the "days" of the creation story could not be literal days. No one thought to argue with him. Over 1500 years ago. You need to read your Bible and you need to learn more about the history of His...

You may wish to turn allegory into literal history, but you have turned away from God's word in doing so. If you think so, then you have rejected the Bible. You don't believe His parables? That explains a great deal. Your position is unsustainable; so long as you try to shoehorn your...

Yes. The writer seems confused as to what biological evolution is. It is a change in allele frequencies in a population. To be macroevolution, it would require the evolution of a new species. Which is what seems to have happened here.

Formerly, Senators were elected by state legislatures. As you might guess, this got so corrupt by the 1900s, that it was changed by Amendment XVII to the Constitution. MAGA republicans are hoping to go back to that, dreaming of the money that would be involved. It's the same reason...

We need a healthy center-right party. This is a tragedy for everyone, not just conservatives.

So the evidence shows. In fact, geneticists have shown that a mutation of one gene can change scutes to feathers in birds and crocodiles, which are both archosaurs like thecodonts and dinosaurs. Would you like to learn about that? Yes. Knowing that something happened doesn't mean one...

The Early Origin of Feathers Volume 34, Issue 9, September 2019, Pages 856-869 Recent work in the developmental biology and palaeontology of feathers has changed our views and opened many new questions (see Outstanding Questions). The new work concurs that these remarkable innovations originated...

First, the idea that men and monkeys evolved from each other is another creationist superstition. Sorry, you're wrong. Monkeys are far too evolved in their own direction to have evolved into humans. As I said, this is a common YE superstition. It's not part of evolutionary theory...

I think you mean "moot." But it isn't. You see, that's strong evidence for evolution. We don't see anything that couldn't have evolved by a change in allele frequencies. No, that's wrong, too. Most mutations don't do very much of anything. You have about 100 of them that were present...