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  • This NASA-Funded Pulsed Plasma Propulsion System Could Carry Humans to Mars In Just Two Months

    05/21/2024 11:50:15 AM PDT · 9 of 40
    ganeemead to Red Badger

    Two words: Biefeld/Brown.....

  • Winston Churchill drew up 'Operation Unthinkable' plans for US and UK to invade Russia

    05/19/2024 3:59:30 AM PDT · 15 of 44
    ganeemead to MinorityRepublican

    That is beyond hare-brained....

  • 308-Million-Year-Old Fossil Arachnid Is An 8-Legged Evolutionary Puzzle

    05/19/2024 12:56:51 AM PDT · 25 of 26
    ganeemead to eastforker
  • 308-Million-Year-Old Fossil Arachnid Is An 8-Legged Evolutionary Puzzle

    05/17/2024 4:14:18 PM PDT · 14 of 26
    ganeemead to redfreedom; doc maverick
    One problem is that the people who tell us that our planet is 4B years old are the same people who tell us that dinosaurs died out 65M years ago as if the soft tissue being found in dinosaur remains since 06 were just someone's imagination...

    Evolution: Categories of Disproof

    A proof or disproof is a kind of a transaction. There is no such thing as absolutely proving or disproving something; there is only such a thing as proving or disproving something to SOMEBODY'S satisfaction. If the party of the second part is too thick or too ideologically committed to some other way of viewing reality, then the best proof in the world will fall flat and fail.

    In the case of evolution, what you have is a theory which has been repeatedly and overwhelmingly disproved over a period of many decades now via a number of independent lines reasoning and yet the adherents go on with it as if nothing had happened and, in fact, demand that the doctrine be taught in public schools at public expense and that no other theory of origins even ever be mentioned in public schools, and attempt to enforce all of that via political power plays and lawsuits.

    At that point, it is clear enough that no disproof or combination of disproofs would ever suffice, that the doctrine is in fact unfalsifiable and that Carl popper's criteria for a pseudoscience is in fact met.

    The educated lay person is not aware of how overwhelmingly evolution has been debunked over the last century.

    The following is a minimal list of entire categories of evidence disproving evolution:

    • The decades-long experiments with fruit flies beginning in the early 1900s. Those tests were intended to demonstrate macroevolution; the failure of those tests was so unambiguous that a number of prominent scientists disavowed evolution at the time.
    • The discovery of the DNA/RNA info codes (information codes do not just sort of happen...)
    • The fact that the info code explained the failure of the fruit-fly experiments (the whole thing is driven by information and the only info there ever was in that picture was the info for a fruit fly...)
    • The discovery of bio-electrical machinery within 1-celled animals.
    • The question of irreducible complexity.
    • The Haldane Dilemma. That is, the gigantic spaces of time it would take to spread any genetic change through an entire herd of animals.
    • The increasingly massive evidence of a recent age for dinosaurs. This includes soft tissue being found in dinosaur remains, good radiocarbon dates for dinosaur remains (blind tests at the University of Georgia's dating lab), and native American petroglyphs clearly showing known dinosaur types.
    • The fact that the Haldane dilemma and the recent findings related to dinosaurs amount to a sort of a time sandwich (evolutionites need quadrillions of years and only have a few tens of thousands).
    • The dna analysis eliminating neanderthals and thus all other hominids as plausible human ancestors.
    • The total lack of intermediate fossils where the theory demands that the bulk of all fossils be clear intermediate types. "Punctuated Equilibria" in fact amounts to an attempt to get around both the Haldane dilemma and the lack of intermediate fossils, but has an entirely new set of overwhelming problems of its own...
    • The question of genetic entropy.
    • The obvious evidence of design in nature.
    • The arguments arising from pure probability and combinatoric considerations.

    Here's what I mean when I use the term "combinatoric considerations"...

    The best illustration of how stupid evolutionism really is involves trying to become some totally new animal with new organs, a new basic plan for existence, and new requirements for integration between both old and new organs.

    Take flying birds for example; suppose you aren't one, and you want to become one. You'll need a baker's dozen highly specialized systems, including wings, flight feathers, the specialized system which allows flight feathers to pivot so as to open on upstrokes and close to trap air on downstrokes (like a venetian blind), a specialized light bone structure, specialized flow-through design heart and lungs, specialized tail, specialized general balance parameters etc.

    For starters, every one of these things would be antifunctional until the day on which the whole thing came together, so that the chances of evolving any of these things by any process resembling evolution (mutations plus selection) would amount to an infinitessimal, i.e. one divided by some gigantic number.

    In probability theory, to compute the probability of two things happening at once, you multiply the probabilities together. That says that the likelihood of all these things ever happening, best case, is ten or twelve such infinitessimals multiplied together, i.e. a tenth or twelth-order infinitessimal. The whole history of the universe isn't long enough for that to happen once.

    All of that was the best case. In real life, it's even worse than that. In real life, natural selection could not plausibly select for hoped-for functionality, which is what would be required in order to evolve flight feathers on something which could not fly apriori. In real life, all you'd ever get would some sort of a random walk around some starting point, rather than the unidircetional march towards a future requirement which evolution requires.

    And the real killer, i.e. the thing which simply kills evolutionism dead, is the following consideration: In real life, assuming you were to somehow miraculously evolve the first feature you'd need to become a flying bird, then by the time another 10,000 generations rolled around and you evolved the second such reature, the first, having been disfunctional/antifunctional all the while, would have DE-EVOLVED and either disappeared altogether or become vestigial.

    Now, it would be miraculous if, given all the above, some new kind of complex creature with new organs and a new basic plan for life had ever evolved ONCE.

    Evolutionism, however (the Theory of Evolution) requires that this has happened countless billions of times, i.e. an essentially infinite number of absolutely zero probability events.

    I ask you: What could be stupider than that?

    Fruit flies breed new generations every few days. Running a continuous decades-long experiment on fruit flies will involve more generations of fruit flies than there have ever been of anything resembling humans on Earth. Evolution is supposed to be driven by random mutation and natural selection; they subjected those flies to everything in the world known to cause mutations and recombined the mutants every possible way, and all they ever got was fruit flies.

    Richard Goldschmidt wrote the results of all of that up in 1940, noting that it was then obvious enough that no combination of mutation and selection could ever produce a new kind of animal.

    There is no excuse for evolution to ever have been taught in schools after 1940.

  • 308-Million-Year-Old Fossil Arachnid Is An 8-Legged Evolutionary Puzzle

    05/17/2024 12:41:59 PM PDT · 7 of 26
    ganeemead to Red Badger
    "308 million years ago it lived...................."

    The Earth is not 308M years old and evolution is a bunch of BS...

  • The case for Yandex

    05/16/2024 4:46:05 PM PDT · 38 of 47
    ganeemead to Chad C. Mulligan
    "To rephrase: A violent rejection of "perv" behavior is associated with internal repression of "perv" tendencies in patients in psychotherapy......"

    In other words, you think you can guilt trip others into accepting your goofy butt despite being a perv...

  • The case for Yandex

    05/16/2024 12:22:47 PM PDT · 34 of 47
    ganeemead to Chad C. Mulligan

  • The case for Yandex

    05/16/2024 8:36:59 AM PDT · 26 of 47
    ganeemead to Chad C. Mulligan
    "There are other search engine alternatives to Gurgle that aren't run by a sworn enemy of America."

    Russia is a Christian nation. That does make them a sworn enemy of our present perv rulers but reasonable people should not view them as enemies.

  • The case for Yandex

    05/16/2024 3:02:12 AM PDT · 10 of 47
    ganeemead to Eagles6

    Oink oink snort whuuuf squeal snort oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink oink ....

    I try to reply to blowhards in their own languages.....

  • The case for Yandex

    05/16/2024 1:34:45 AM PDT · 1 of 47
    ganeemead
  • Kiev blame game. Kharkov debacle

    05/14/2024 3:29:57 AM PDT · 14 of 23
    ganeemead to deks
  • Kiev blame game. Kharkov debacle

    05/14/2024 3:24:22 AM PDT · 13 of 23
    ganeemead to tlozo
  • Kiev blame game. Kharkov debacle

    05/14/2024 12:49:58 AM PDT · 4 of 23
    ganeemead to Darksheare
    "Give me a sentence with the words defense and defeat in it..."

    I done jumped over defense wif defeat....

  • Kiev blame game. Kharkov debacle

    05/13/2024 11:48:36 PM PDT · 1 of 23
    ganeemead
  • "Ukrainians SURRENDERING like never before" & Putin hasn't even STARTED the full invasion | Redacted

    05/13/2024 10:37:03 PM PDT · 23 of 42
    ganeemead to Freest Republican
    "(it is weird to care abt innocent pals but not innocent Ukes"

    If you're talking about the palisavages, I don't buy the idea that any of them might be innocent of anything. They all voted to make Hamas their government...

  • A wargame simulated a 2nd Trump presidency. It concluded NATO would collapse.

    05/13/2024 7:32:39 PM PDT · 20 of 123
    ganeemead to Olog-hai
    "“Europe” is in no danger from Russia. "

    Correct. Putin is a totally rational guy, and there is no rational reason for him to want to rule all of those idiot wankers.

  • A wargame simulated a 2nd Trump presidency. It concluded NATO would collapse.

    05/13/2024 7:29:05 PM PDT · 17 of 123
    ganeemead to MinorityRepublican

    Sounds like a happy ending to me.

  • "Ukrainians SURRENDERING like never before" & Putin hasn't even STARTED the full invasion | Redacted

    05/13/2024 7:25:46 PM PDT · 3 of 42
    ganeemead to volare737

    Ukie soldiers are being ordered to just walk into the meat grinder and die for no rational reason and with no possible benefit to anybody other than the fatcats of the Kiev regime. Surrendering is the only rational option they have. The regime has sealed the borders of the place so that nobody can escape.

  • "Ukrainians SURRENDERING like never before" & Putin hasn't even STARTED the full invasion | Redacted

    05/13/2024 7:20:31 PM PDT · 1 of 42
    ganeemead
  • Ukraine strikes Russian apartment building killing 15 people, officials say

    05/12/2024 11:07:20 PM PDT · 7 of 32
    ganeemead to McGruff

    Nazi-terrorist regime...