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I can’t believe it. It’s a year later and you’re still vlogging the same mistake. You have a decent explanation for Darwinism, but then you goof it up by using a component of Lamarckism.
An Injury, happening before or after birth, cannot be passed down to further offspring. That is Lamarckism.
Darwinism is a genetic mutation that gets passed down to further offspring.
Joanne you are missing your real calling. That would be a wonderful lecture in a college biology class.
“An Injury, happening before or after birth, cannot be passed down to further offspring.”
I second this comment. This kind of thing makes it even harder to argue with the ignorant and just gives them more crap to “prove” creationism with.
That was a pretty lousy explanation for evolution… who needs creationists when rocket boom is doing the explaining.
awwww, the pink whales are so cute….
Yeah, you can’t pass down the result of an accident. Otherwise my kids would have been born with multiple concussions and missing half a finger.
I cannot believe that we are still fighting over evolution. It’s like fighting over gravity. Except, of course, that the Pious see no threat from the notion of gravity. (At least now they don’t I believe Galileo ran into some issues….)
Note to all those blowhards sticking warning labels on textbooks and seeking to tweach “both sides of the evoluton controversy”: when your kids get to college, especially if they leave this country, they will either be incapable of working in the mainstream science community or they will have to completely rethink everything you taught them. And that will make you look stupid. Perhaps rightfully so.
Yes it is marvelous to be sure how the whole spectrum of life is transitional as we sentient being migrate betwixt our phantom fictional forms for ever and ever onward towards our next destination beyond the realm of death to be remade anew as we eschew nonexistence with the flip of a fin in the cosmic ocean we swim in each and all connected in multiple constructs consuming each other as fresh fodder for future days as we skip the light fantastic and surf the wild waves.
Le Orbman
(beings)
You can always tell the folks who don’t believe in evolution….
They’re the ones who have refused to participate in it.
I especially liked the closing thought. I’ve long believed that the ability to reason is another failed experiment from Mother Nature. The sooner it is “evolved away”, the better.
I guess evolution is too heavy for tubers! nice show but I said that last year!
Hi, I’m a creationist and I love your website. I disagree with you, but I’m sure you disagree with me too. Keep up the good work and God bless! :)
Hi, I’m a realist. I reject the notion that all ideas are equally valid. I prefer science over the ramblings of puny humans who think faith alonme is all the science they need. But I’m sure you disagree with me. Keep up the good work and Be Lucky!
Does this explaination mean that Joanne’s kids are going to be born with a bad wrist?
AAAHHHH Chucky Darwin, where would we be without thou? Kansas maybe?
Happy weekend all.
You mean everything I was taught at St. James is bullshit???? Wow, man.
Oh… and not just at St. James, or St. Elsewhere or St. Anywhere or PS 135 or PS 411 or PS 911.
Our ideas and the mutations and growth of technology that reach out could be considered to be extensions of our own evolutionary bodies.
Friday, so casual it didn’t even need to show up!
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Joanne,
Shouldn’t we be congratulating Mr. Darwin on his 200th birthday? The years up to and including 1809 are excluded from any following year when subtracted with, for example, 1810 being Darwin’s first birthday. 1810 - 1809 = 1. Likewise, 2009 - 1809 = 200.
To check my math in a spreadsheet, I literally ran continuous numbers in one column from 1809 to 2009 for the years. In an adjoining column I ran continuous numbers from 1 to the year for 2009 for the age where 1 was started in the same row as 1810. The end result at the year 2009 was 200 for Darwin’s age.
Computing time (days, months, years) can be a little confusing especially when the beginning day/month/year is to be included and one must add 1 to the result to include the starting day/month/year.
Glad to see that your wrist is better. You shouldn’t have tried to kick that puppy.
Also like the return of the “play-bar” below the video screen so that I can pause the video when I need to and the return of the old video lead-in to RocketBoom. I’ve been away for a week and am working backwards through the week; RB may have started with these changes earlier. I’ll soon see.
And should you ever leave RB, I shan’t forgive you.
maybe, just maybe this show is one year old. There are several hints. In the beginning Joanne says “Hello and good … 2008″. Another hint might be that her wrist is “better”. A third hint is, that when you have a look at last years episode (http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_feb_12/), you might notice some similarity. Ok I am still not sure and this is a pretty bold theory, but maybe this is an old episode…
Hey, the guy’s from Georgia, wad’ya expect!
I agree with your association except, I’m not from Georgia. I’m just cursed to be living here for the moment.
Interesting web site.
My bookmark is for http://www.rocketboom.com and not for any particular date. In the past, it has always presented the current or last RB submission and I had no reason to suspect anything different. Especially where the date below the screen reflects “February 12 2009.” I didn’t hear her intro as I tend to ignore it since it’s not the main story. But, you’re correct. She does lead off with the date for 2008.
BTW. Your moniker suits you.
Hi, I am not religious in any sense, but I see both sides of Creation and Evolution; the sense and the nonsense of both.
Darwin nailed genetic drift, mutations, and natural selection- where he went wrong is the mutation from one species to the next. While I concur that it is possible for a population to evolve to a point where they can no longer interbreed, no matter how many years go by, an offspring cannot mutate a complicated characteristic not present in it’s parents. Fish evolving lungs, for example.
Creation claiming that everything on this Earth was put here for a reason, and works in perfect harmony is a beautiful and elegant way of saying- hey, our shit works. If a light-bulb contained a planet, those who lived on the planet in which Einstein finally managed to do right would do well to believe that whatever force created them succeeded in creating them… if you know what I mean. Where creation goes wrong is when they close up their minds to any possibility of science being correct. [The bible never said the world was round.... *scratches head*]
This is just what makes sense to me. I don’t believe anything just because others tell me to, or because they explain to me why it’s true twelve hundred times. I just know what I know, and think what I think, and that’s the best I can do.
Nat,
I have one comment about your reasoning against Darwin. Offspring don’t mutate a complicated characteristic in one generation. The development of something like a lung happens over thousands if not millions of generations. That’s why it’s one of the big evolutionary steps. There were probably thousands of different mutations that lead to it, accompanied by millions of mutations that did nothing or caused the death of the carrier.
“you still said nature chooses
youve just given it a mind ”
In case you aren’t being obtuse on purpose, saying that “nature chooses feature X” is shorthand for “those individuals in a population that happen to have feature X, tend to leave behind more offspring than those without the feature X, and thus, in the following generations, a bigger and bigger proportion of the individuals will have the feature X, until having the feature X becomes the norm.”
Obviously no mind is involved in that.