02 Jun 13
Originally posted by twhiteheadI have no idea what you're talking about. I intentionally started off that post by saying IMO (in my opinion). People instinctively understand probabilities and improbabilities in their everyday life. I wasn't illustrating solid and irrefutable evidence, or fleshing out my message with equations and statistics because frankly I don't need to be doing that. If someone needs to stop before crossing a street to pull out a pad and pencil to calculate distances and apparent speeds of approaching vehicles, so he can know when it is most advantageous to cross the street, then I would suggest to that person he stay home and never go anywhere.
OK, can you estimate how many plutos it would take to fill the sky. Then tell me how many cells in your body. This could get interesting.
Also from Wikipedia:
"..... a litre of seawater may hold more than 20 000 species."
How many living cells do you think are in a liter of sea water?
02 Jun 13
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Originally posted by RJHindsExcept you don't have a 4 year degree in engineering either. Also, you might take the time to read up on sexual reproduction in plants. You ever heard the term stamen and pistil?
It is true that I only had grade school biology, because I was not required to take it in college for a degree in Electrical Engineering. But I am almost certain that I was told there were no male and female plants. Perhaps my memory fails me.
It is said that bisexual reproduction provides a better mechanism to weed out harmful mutations and provide th ...[text shortened]... ity to adapt quickly to a changing environment than does asexual reproduction.
The Instructor
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stamen
You don't even know plants reproduce sexually and you want to talk to us about evolution? Get real. Get an education first then lets talk.
02 Jun 13
Originally posted by sonhouseI'm not a biologist, but I thought plants had both stamens and pistils. I didn't know there were plants where one has only a stamen and the other only a pistil. If the pollen of one goes to the other but not the other way around, then what compels bees to visit the one with no pollen? Bees go out to collect pollen. They have no interest in visiting plants that have no pollen. Or do the male and female plants both produce pollen?
Except you don't have a 4 year degree in engineering either. Also, you might take the time to read up on sexual reproduction in plants. You ever heard the term stamen and pistil?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stamen
You don't even know plants reproduce sexually and you want to talk to us about evolution? Get real. Get an education first then lets talk.
03 Jun 13
Originally posted by sonhouseSo what? Bill Gates also dropped out of college and only got an honory dereee after 32 years as a successful computer businessman. Well, what kind of degree do you have that makes you so smart.
Except you don't have a 4 year degree in engineering either. Also, you might take the time to read up on sexual reproduction in plants. You ever heard the term stamen and pistil?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stamen
You don't even know plants reproduce sexually and you want to talk to us about evolution? Get real. Get an education first then lets talk.
The Instructor
03 Jun 13
Originally posted by lemon limeI am suggesting that you do not have even the most basic idea about the probabilities involved, and that if it was a street you would be wise to not cross. There may be a billion more cars going past than you think.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I intentionally started off that post by saying IMO (in my opinion). People instinctively understand probabilities and improbabilities in their everyday life. I wasn't illustrating solid and irrefutable evidence, or fleshing out my message with equations and statistics because frankly I don't need to be doing that ...[text shortened]... to cross the street, then I would suggest to that person he stay home and never go anywhere.
You said the probability was in the same ball park as hitting Pluto. I want you to work out what the pall park figure for hitting Pluto is.
I then want to show that the amount of activity going on in life, is so much greater that Pluto it getting pelted with stray bullets daily.
If there are 20 000 species in a litre of sea water, how many cells do you think there are? How many litres of sea water are there in the sea? Come on, lets have a rough estimate? Even an instinctive one?
03 Jun 13
Originally posted by twhiteheadYou have really took this thread on a wild goose chase. I don't think you have any idea what the OP was about.
I am suggesting that you do not have even the most basic idea about the probabilities involved, and that if it was a street you would be wise to not cross. There may be a billion more cars going past than you think.
You said the probability was in the same ball park as hitting Pluto. I want you to work out what the pall park figure for hitting Pluto is. ...[text shortened]... of sea water are there in the sea? Come on, lets have a rough estimate? Even an instinctive one?
The Instructor
03 Jun 13
Originally posted by RJHindsJust like you to ignore the deeper part of my post. The fact that you, knowing NOTHING about plant reproduction have the gall to think you can criticize evolution.
So what? Bill Gates also dropped out of college and only got an honory dereee after 32 years as a successful computer businessman. Well, what kind of degree do you have that makes you so smart.
The Instructor
03 Jun 13
Originally posted by lemon limeAre you saying because a mammoth was found with blood inside not deteriorated that must be proof the Earth is only 6000 years old? Or Dino's for that matter?
The genes responsible for the moths becoming darker didn't mutate. Those genes were already there. If most moths were light colored before the industrial revolution, it was because lighter colored moths were better suited for survival. When the landscape became darker and birds began harvesting mostly light colored moths, it gave the 'evolutionary' advant ...[text shortened]... ut maybe if we cover one eye and look away with the other it will all begin to make sense.