Comment why not just buy a microscope? (Score 1) 50
They're only slightly less clunky than that thing. And they don't require an internet connection.
Comment Re:56 Mentions of God (Score 1) 48
I see Kirk is adding in mentions of Nazis and racism... how divine.
Because evolutionary principle/thought definitely had nothing to do with Nazi thought or racist thought....
I don't know how you can get around eugenics as being something that seemed to come out of evolutionary concepts. I'm not trolling. I'm not even accusing evolution of being wrong or false or whatever. I'm saying that eugenics, which was behind Hitler/Nazi thought and to some extent behind racism - at least, if the racism is born out of other things (including religion, e.g., antisemitism) - seems to be a logical progression from evolutionary thought. Improvements come from lots of breeding/procreation -> must be going on today -> there must be "inferior" races currently alive -> why not help evolution along and get rid of these inferior races.
You're totally right, as long as your point is that nazis used evolution as their reasoning. Not trolling either, just pointing out that the nazis were WRONG to try to help evolution along. The reason is that you can't possibly help evolution along. You would have to see the future, and you would have to see millions of years into the future, and along every different timeline created by every different combination of mutations in every species. Where would we be if the ridiculous little mouse hadn't out-survived the dinosaurs?
Comment um (Score 1) 3
I would think that such heavy winds would produce enough energy to subsidize the cost of "more burly" turbines.
Comment Re:Other fields... (Score 4, Funny) 92
Hmmm, I wonder what parameters give a mutation of ID/creationism an advantage.... A higher degree of logical circularity maybe?
If creationists are right, then God created circular logic............. ohmygod! I just proved nothing!
Comment Re:paper in your wallet (Score 1) 1007
Really? That works? My password is hunter32.
Seems like i can see it still though.
um... i see your password. i see no ****'s at all. are you Benaiah on all your sites? Ima try to login as you
Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart 808
D1gital_Prob3 writes "How can a 'smart' person act foolishly? Keith Stanovich, professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, has grappled with this apparent incongruity for 15 years. He says it applies to more people than you might think. To Stanovich, however, there is nothing incongruous about it. IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and working-memory capacity — how much information you can hold in mind."
