Open forum
Following the example of other blogs, I decided to have an open forum. Visitors may sound off here on any topic of interest to them. Any comment may -- with the approval of its author -- be selected for a new post. I think that an open forum is a better idea than having guest bloggers because (1) having guest bloggers could result in an excessive number of posts and (2) having guest bloggers discriminates against those not invited to be guest bloggers.
The rule against gossip about my private affairs applies here. However, because my obligation to answer any comment here is especially low, lies about objective facts will be allowed (yes, ViU, now is your big chance to say that Judge Jones told a newspaper that he was going to follow the law instead of telling them that the school board election results would not affect his decision).
The rule against gossip about my private affairs applies here. However, because my obligation to answer any comment here is especially low, lies about objective facts will be allowed (yes, ViU, now is your big chance to say that Judge Jones told a newspaper that he was going to follow the law instead of telling them that the school board election results would not affect his decision).
posted by Larry Fafarman | 8/24/2008 08:37:00 AM
9 Comments:
Larry said:
...lies about objective facts will be allowed...
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Doesn't this describe your entire blog? Certainly your posts are devoid of objective facts, or even recognition of objective reality, for that matter.
> (yes, ViU, now is your big chance to say that Judge Jones told a newspaper that he was going to follow the law instead of telling them that the school board election results would not affect his decision). <
So you begin the forum with a lie of your own, misrepresenting what ViU said.
I wonder, though...To lie, don't you have to know that what you are saying isn't true? Larry has established quite well that he is insane, and thus no in contact with reality. If he isn't in contact with reality, and is only aware of the delusions that cloud his diseased mind, can he lie? He seems to actually believe the manifestly untrue things he says. Weird.
Hey guys! How has the afterlife been treating you? Have you forgiven me yet (I know you have, James)? You know it wasn't personal, right.
Even though I disagree with Larry, I believe he's not purposely lying about anything in this blog. However, does any of you geeks know...
Why does a small animal like alga have so much more DNA than a human?
"Why does a small animal like alga have so much more DNA than a human?"
Well, in the first place, an alga is a plant (not an animal).
I suppose you're referring to an article like this?
It's unclear what "more" means in this context. More of what exactly? More strands? More base pairs? More bulk volume percentage?
Michael, never mind my previous questions; you seem to be referring to this:
The C-value enigma or C-value paradox is a term used to describe the complex puzzle surrounding the extensive variation in nuclear genome size among eukaryotic species. At the center of the C-value enigma is the observation that genome size does not correlate with organismal complexity. For example, many plant species and some single-celled protists, have genomes much larger than that of humans.
You might like to read the rest of the article. It only partially answers your question, though, as the cause remains somewhat mysterious.
Michael said:
Why does a small animal like alga have so much more DNA than a human?
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Do you really disrespect your god so much that you will make him a god of the gaps when those gaps are being filled more and more as time goes by, thus making him smaller and smaller and smaller? You shouldn't do that to the object of your worship. You need a different theology, my friend. One that allows you to have an edifying concept of go that allows you to actually accept the findings of science.
Or are you one of those who prefers to belittle your go out of deference to your worship of the Bible?
OK, I’ll bite.
You may attempt one or all of the following:
First, I see the term Darwinist being thrown around a lot. What does it mean, and how does it (or does it?) differ from someone who believes that a process of evolution exists?
Second, Neanderthals. If you don’t believe in evolution, what do you believe about them?
Third, who put the Bop in Bop-Shu-Bop-Bop?
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