creationism

Any person or scientist who claims to pursue truth has to take notice of the astounding research available. Evolution will be seen as the shamanism of age.

[emperornorton47]

Arabian sea humpback whales isolated for 70,000 years

[creationism]

Scientists have made a fascinating discovery in the northern Indian Ocean: humpback whales inhabiting the Arabian Sea are the most genetically distinct humpback whales in the world and may be the most isolated whale population on earth. The results suggest they have remained separate from other humpback whale populations for perhaps 70,000 years, extremely unusual in a species famed for long distance migrations.

[sciencefriday]

The vampire squid is a living fossil. It’s the only known surviving member of Vampyromorphida, an order that existed before the split between 10-limbed squid and 8-legged octopuses. In fact, there are fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old look “virtually indistinguishable” from the species today.

Learn more about the mysterious vampire squid.

[creationism]

Hmmnn...

[creationism]

Do you find it interesting that these topics which turn into the battle grounds for atheists and believers are on the cusp of our scientific knowledge? I mean were are the flat earth Christians or the earth is the centre of the universe Christians?

Yes, that is my complaint; instead of "lets respect each others opinions and learn together" which would promote new thought, it's "let's be bombastic, and claim to have the corner on truth." which kills advancement. (Im not certain where you are going with flat earth or centrists?)

[creationism]

1) Let's get this clear. Only 15% of Americans accept evolution. This is not a majority. 2) There is no evidence for creationism. You seem to have an unclear understanding of science: science is the observation and understanding of the natural world, the OBSERVABLE world. Whether or not there is a god is a metaphysical question which has nothing to do with science. There is no grand conspiracy of scientists trying to fix the system or ignoring evidence. Evolution is the best poss. explanation.

“Let’s get this clear” sounds pretty demanding. Okay mommy?

According to this Wikipedia article 48% of religious people claim support to evolution. And according to the National Center for Science Education the number has hovered between 39% and 53% for evolution.A FASEB poll, (found that it depends on how you ask the question) researchers asked half of the respondents about their views on the evolution of “all living things” and found that 61 percent accepted that “all living things have evolved over time.” src

2) There is plenty of evidence against evolution and there is evidence for creationism. However, modern science has 100 years of gaining control of power structures that mostly refuse to objectively debate the issues. 95% of scientists believe in evolution. That is a majority. I happen to believe they are wrong and want to hear more from the 5%. Evolution is the best possible solution because you have been told it is. Complexity coming from nothing makes a lot less sense than coming from a designer.

[sirensosweet-deactivated2015070]

Technically, nothing to complexity is exactly what creationists believe too.. 

Nothing… then suddenly life as complex as today’s comes into being. 

Also, I must concede with you that many people would say that a god creating everything as it is does “make more sense.” If it didn’t, why would it have lasted so long? It is the belief of people who desire a straightforward answer for the world around them.

However, evolution’s evidence is more observable. Just because something is complex now, does not mean it was the same way when the world began. I would rather be able to see fossils of extinct animals, read experiments in which people force evolution, and study logical processes (because evolution is a logical progression of life) than have faith in a god I do not subscribe to. And I am sure that many other evolutionists feel the same way.

[creationism]

My problem is that there is observable science available for Creation, but no major investment in it's study. Either it's Christian wackos who have little interest in science and more interest in conversion, or the flawed, bastardized mainstream community spewing out the same old "science".

[creationism]

40,000-Year-Old Asian Cave Paintings Shock Archaeologists: Reconsidering History - The Epoch Times

Ancient cave drawings in Indonesia are as old as famous prehistoric art in Europe, according to a new study that shows our ancestors were drawing all over the world 40,000 years ago.

What?!  "discovery that changes what science thought.." But I thought it was "FACT"?

[ucresearch]

Why are human faces so unique?

What’s in a face? The amazing variety of human faces — far greater than that of most other animals — is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily recognizable, according to a new study out of UC Berkeley.

Behavioral ecologist Michael J. Sheehan explains that our highly visual social interactions are almost certainly the driver of this evolutionary trend. Many animals use smell or vocalization to identify individuals, making distinctive facial features unimportant, especially for animals that roam after dark, he said. But humans are different.

In the study, Sheehan and coauthor Michael Nachman asked, “Are traits such as distance between the eyes or width of the nose variable just by chance, or has there been evolutionary selection to be more variable than they would be otherwise; more distinctive and more unique?”

As predicted, the researchers found that facial traits are much more variable than other bodily traits, such as the length of the hand, and that facial traits are independent of other facial traits, unlike most body measures. People with longer arms, for example, typically have longer legs, while people with wider noses or widely spaced eyes don’t have longer noses. Both findings suggest that facial variation has been enhanced through evolution.

“Genetic variation tends to be weeded out by natural selection in the case of traits that are essential to survival,” Nachman said. “Here it is the opposite; selection is maintaining variation. All of this is consistent with the idea that there has been selection for variation to facilitate recognition of individuals.”

Human faces are so variable because we evolved to look unique →

[creationism]

Or facial variation has been enhanced by design...

[creationism]

Force of nature gave life its asymmetry

'Left-handed' electrons destroy certain organic molecules faster than their mirror versions.

Design or "Leftover radio active decay"

[laughingsquid]

Fascinating X-Ray GIFs of the Human Body in Action

[creationism]

Fearful symmetry.

[creationism]

[thegreathope]

[creationism]

Controversy Erupts Over Creationism Debate

The highly anticipated debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham isn’t scheduled to begin until 7 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

Refusing to debate someone because by claiming their argument is invalid is a form of stonewalling. A convenient way for the bureaucracy to control thought. It is not like Creationism is some mystic aberration held by hoveling peasants in a cave. 

Creationist do not need or “crave: the oxygen of respectability in the world of real science.”

That is yet another bigoted saying that demeans people and their faith.

The entire Renaissance was about faith and the freedom to explore science.

Isaac Newton, Leonard Euler, Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Ambrose Fleming, James Clark Maxwell, Werner Von Braun, Blaise Pascal all established Creationists who contributed world changing science.

So stop already with the underhanded insults.

[professorfeels]

Faith has no place in science. Faith is the belief in something without evidence, and science is based on nothing BUT evidence. And yes, creationism is invalid because there is no evidence supporting it except an ancient book written by uneducated men. However, there is plenty of evidence supporting evolution.

[creationism]

And yet when we look into science we see it more about beliefs, institutions, and social construction than we would like to think. It is not faith that damages science, it is the wrong headedness, beauracracy, and false social structures that oppose it. Christ was a man of science.

[itsagoooodday]

Cells undergoing mitosis. So cool.

[protoslacker]

Fortey believes that the natural progress of evolution is always towards greater richness, and that this is the way our planet is meant to be when Darwinian evolution is allowed to play out naturally. Mistaken ideas about Darwinism have contributed to a view of human life that diminishes rather than enhances richness, particularly in the Weltanschauung of market capitalism.

Régine Debatty at We Make Money Not Art. Age of Wonder: Mistaken ideas about Darwinism 

Notes and video from the keynote that science writer and paleontologist Richard Fortey gave at the Age of Wonder festival in Eindhoven a few weeks ago.

(via protoslacker)

[chalkandwater]

Dilation and constriction of these organelles, called chromatophores, are responsible for the squid’s ability to change color.

Inside Nature’s Giants: The Giant Squid (2010)

[creationism]

Exercise: replace the word “evolution” in the article with “God”

[fat-birds]

secretary bird walking around.

[headlikeanorange]

The Guillemot is a seabird that lays its eggs on a bare rock ledge on a cliff face. When an egg is accidentally dislodged, its shape causes it to spin in a tight circle, which prevents it from falling off the ledge into the sea. (Springwatch - BBC)

[huggs-boson-deactivated20181203]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how fucking awesome this is?

These eggs no doubt started out like all other avian eggs, but they had the problem of rolling off the cliffs. The eggs that were slightly more oblong tended to roll off the cliffs less, and thus the genes contained in those eggs lived to be passed on. Fast forward a few million years, and BAM tight-circle eggs. 

Naturally selected for your viewing pleasure. 

[youweremyfavorite]

Natural selection is a beautiful thing 

[itsokaytobesmart]

I think you mean natural sel-EGG-tion.

[creationism]

Or really great design: CrEGGtion