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  • B bulg

    what is your profession, again?

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    Ilion
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    bulg wrote:

    what is your profession, again?

    Are you even capable of making a worthwhile comment?

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      bulg wrote:

      what is your profession, again?

      Are you even capable of making a worthwhile comment?

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      Oakman
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      Ilíon wrote:

      Are you even capable of making a worthwhile comment?

      Is that what Walmart is calling a greeter these days?

      Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

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      • E Ed Gadziemski

        Ilion. If he/she/it is the top of the evolutionary ladder, the ladder is defective and the theory is kaput.

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        :thumbsup:

        "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

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        • I Ilion

          ScienceDaily (reporting on a recent paper in Science): Billions Of Years Ago, Microbes Were Key In Developing Modern Nitrogen Cycle[^]

          ... But new research shows that for the countless billions of tiniest creatures – microbes – large-scale evolution was completed 2.5 billion years ago. "For microbes, it appears that almost all of their major evolution took place before we have any record of them, way back in the dark mists of prehistory," said Roger Buick, a University of Washington paleontologist and astrobiologist. All living organisms need nitrogen, a basic component of amino acids and proteins. But for atmospheric nitrogen to be usable, it must be "fixed," or converted to a biologically useful form. Some microbes turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, a form in which the nitrogen can be easily absorbed by other organisms. But the new research shows that about 2.5 billion years ago some microbes evolved that could carry the process a step further, adding oxygen to the ammonia to produce nitrate, which also can be used by organisms. That was the beginning of what today is known as the aerobic nitrogen cycle. The microbes that accomplished that feat are on the last, or terminal, branches of the bacteria and archaea domains of the so-called tree of life, and they are the only microbes capable of carrying out the step of adding oxygen to ammonia. The fact that they are on those terminal branches indicates that large-scale evolution of bacteria and archaea was complete about 2.5 billion years ago, Buick said. ...

          Now, of course, I fully realize that few, if any, of you 'modern evolutionary theorists' (aka "DarwiniDefenders") are going to be able to understand that the conclusion presented here is a denial of 'modern evolutionary theory,' and on multiple levels. Rather, you'll latch onto the first clause of the next sentence, ignoring everything else:

          ... "Countless bacteria and archaea species have evolved since then, but the major branches have held," said Buick, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences. ...

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          ... said Roger Buick, a University of Washington paleontologist and astrobiologist. ...

          :laugh: Astrobiology: the "science" without subject-matter. Is it any wonder that John Barrow fa

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          Ilíon wrote:

          the conclusion presented here is a denial of 'modern evolutionary theory,' and on multiple levels

          Can you explain to me why you think this is so, please?

          Bob Emmett

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            ScienceDaily (reporting on a recent paper in Science): Billions Of Years Ago, Microbes Were Key In Developing Modern Nitrogen Cycle[^]

            ... But new research shows that for the countless billions of tiniest creatures – microbes – large-scale evolution was completed 2.5 billion years ago. "For microbes, it appears that almost all of their major evolution took place before we have any record of them, way back in the dark mists of prehistory," said Roger Buick, a University of Washington paleontologist and astrobiologist. All living organisms need nitrogen, a basic component of amino acids and proteins. But for atmospheric nitrogen to be usable, it must be "fixed," or converted to a biologically useful form. Some microbes turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, a form in which the nitrogen can be easily absorbed by other organisms. But the new research shows that about 2.5 billion years ago some microbes evolved that could carry the process a step further, adding oxygen to the ammonia to produce nitrate, which also can be used by organisms. That was the beginning of what today is known as the aerobic nitrogen cycle. The microbes that accomplished that feat are on the last, or terminal, branches of the bacteria and archaea domains of the so-called tree of life, and they are the only microbes capable of carrying out the step of adding oxygen to ammonia. The fact that they are on those terminal branches indicates that large-scale evolution of bacteria and archaea was complete about 2.5 billion years ago, Buick said. ...

            Now, of course, I fully realize that few, if any, of you 'modern evolutionary theorists' (aka "DarwiniDefenders") are going to be able to understand that the conclusion presented here is a denial of 'modern evolutionary theory,' and on multiple levels. Rather, you'll latch onto the first clause of the next sentence, ignoring everything else:

            ... "Countless bacteria and archaea species have evolved since then, but the major branches have held," said Buick, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences. ...

            =====================

            ... said Roger Buick, a University of Washington paleontologist and astrobiologist. ...

            :laugh: Astrobiology: the "science" without subject-matter. Is it any wonder that John Barrow fa

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            Ilíon wrote:

            the conclusion presented here is a denial of 'modern evolutionary theory,' and on multiple levels

            Bob Emmett wrote:

            Can you explain to me why you think this is so, please?

            No explanation? Enough unsaid.

            Bob Emmett

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            • O Oakman

              Ilíon wrote:

              Are you even capable of making a worthwhile comment?

              Is that what Walmart is calling a greeter these days?

              Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

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              fred_
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              naw who you kidding Walmart has a strict policy requiring a personality for all greeters :|

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