This is just a way your way of saying that, "I can't think of how this could have happened via the theory, therefore the theory is wrong." In this particular case it's easy to show it can occur.

Start with a creature with a short neck that eats leaves. One gets a slightly longer neck, allowing it to eat from branches that are slightly higher on the tree/bush. This may or may not be beneficial, but nor is it a detriment. Repeat over many, many generations, while similarly selecting in the other traits as necessary since, by necessity, the creature still needs to drink water.

Macroevolution is even accepted on most ID/creationist fronts -- as proof, the Creation Museum even has a display on it/i>, even if they don't call it that because that would, well, make them look even more foolish.

This is entirely true -- they do call it a half-life for a reason, so there would be some question about if there's enough material for the bombs to actually detonate.

That aside, I can still at least accept that a nuke has a partial chance of working, since the half-life of U-235 is still well over 1 million years (or plutonium about 24,000 years).

A harrier still being able to fly after sitting around without maintenance, not so much. I imagine at least some parts of it would be prone to corrosion.

The novel's OK -- far from the best sci-fi, but it's certainly not as bad as the movie. Gets kinda stupid after Psychlo blows up, IMO, but before then it's really a basic sci-fi action novel.

And at least it makes some sense within the guidelines set out, unlike the movie. For instance, these three plot points in particular irked me about the movie:

1) The Psychlos are gold hungry -- do you REALLY think they'd have not found as large a deposit as the bars Fort Knox (or any other large bank, for that matter)? Fort Knox (or some other large bank, I can't recall exactly) is in the book, but it was cleaned out. The humans happened to find a few gold bars gold in an abandoned Brinks van, but that's it.

2) The events takes place 1000 years after the Psychlos invaded. How likely is it that Harrier jets would still be fueled and in working order after all that time? The humans use a few of the Phychlo's own transport pads against them in the book.

3) They also KNOW their planet would be susceptible to nuclear attack, due to the composition of the atmosphere. The movie would have you believe they're so dumb that they had no protection against accidentally/intentionally transported nuclear weapons and that a single nuke would work to blow up the planet. In the book, due to the shielding in place, it actually took 7, with the shielding around the transport area actually forcing the combined explosions down into the mined out core of the planet. Granted, by the same logic as #2, it's hard to believe a nuke would work after 1000 years, but at least a nuke isn't as mechanically complicated (to my knowledge) as a harrier.

I'm not trying to defend the book -- if you haven't read it, you're not missing much -- but it actually did have the basis for a half-decent, if quite typical, sci-fi movie, instead of the atrocity that came about.

Mind you, the name of the characters sucked.

Unlike similar levels on blank media, at least an MP3 player is designed with a PRIMARY purpose of playing music, as opposed to the levy we currently pay on blank DVDs and the like.

With that said, I'm sure this won't make people who legally pay for music via iTunes and the like happy.

The first video game I was ever addicted to.

Yes, please :).

I'm not even sure there's been a correlation made.