Malevolent Designer - How Creationism's Putative Designer COULD Have Given Us A Mechanism to Prevent Heart Attacks But Chose Not To
Rosa Rubicondior
by Rosa Rubicondior
9h ago
Naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber Photo: TxanTxunai via Wikimedia Commons Naked mole rats, Heterocephalus glaber - uniquely able to resist cardiac damage. FMD - Secrets of the naked mole-rat: new study reveals how their unique metabolism protects them from heart attacks - Queen Mary University of London Part of creationists mythology is the belief that humans stand at the pinnacle of creation, being the supreme creation of their putative designer. Even those who accept the evidence for evolution, like to imagine that somehow evolution was intended to result in human being at the ape ..read more
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Creationism in Crisis - 4,000 Year-Old Human Teeth From Ireland Show No Signs Of The legendary Biblical Flood - But Every Sign of Evolution
Rosa Rubicondior
by Rosa Rubicondior
18h ago
The scientists extracted the information from teeth like the one pictured here. Image credit: Dr Lara Cassidy. Killuragh Cave, County Limerick, Ireland. Photo: Sam Moore; Owner: Marion Dowd. Genetic secrets from 4,000-year-old teeth to illuminate the impact of changing human diets over the centuries - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin What can you tell from two, 4000-year-old human teeth found in a limestone cave in Ireland? Firstly, you can tell a great deal about the food their owner ate and what state their oral hygiene was in. Secondly, you can tell how the microbiome of ..read more
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Creationism in Crisis - 4,000 Year-Old Human Teeth From Ireland Show No Signs Of The legendary Biblical Flood
Rosa Rubicondior
by Rosa Rubicondior
1d ago
The scientists extracted the information from teeth like the one pictured here. Image credit: Dr Lara Cassidy. Killuragh Cave, County Limerick, Ireland. Photo: Sam Moore; Owner: Marion Dowd. Genetic secrets from 4,000-year-old teeth to illuminate the impact of changing human diets over the centuries - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin What can you tell from two, 4000-year-old human teeth found in a cave in Ireland? Firstly, you can tell a great deal about the food their owner ate and what state their oral hygiene was in. Secondly, you can tell how the microbiome of the human ..read more
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Old Dead Gods - What Does The Cerne Abbas Giant Depict And When Was It Created?
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by Rosa Rubicondior
2d ago
Aerial view showing the field below the giant and the “herepath” curving up onto Giant Hill from the bottom right, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England. Photo: Pete Harlow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Cerne Abbas Giant, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England. Photo: Ray Gaffney. © National Trust. Uncovering the mystery of Dorset’s Cerne Giant The thing about most of the ancient monuments and hill markings like the Uffington White Horse after whom the district of Oxfordshire I live in was named, is that no-one knows what religion the people who made them believed in or how, if indeed it did ..read more
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How Evolution Works - Choas, Catastrophe and Tipping Points
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by Rosa Rubicondior
2d ago
The fitness landscape of hyphae showing that natural shapes are constrained by a tipping point. Credit: Maxim Ohairwe Hyphal mycelium. credit: Maxim Ohairwe. Researchers Discover Evolutionary “Tipping Point” in Fungi An interesting paper has just been published which illustrates how chaos theory and catastrophe theory are related and explain the appearance of 'punctuated equilibrium' in the fossil record. It concerns the small environmental change that can trigger a large phenotypic change in the growth and shape of fungal hyphae. One of the more annoying things to emerge in evolution ..read more
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Religious Child Abuse News - Those Believing Absurdities Commit Atrocities - Chidren Starved and Tortured For Being 'Possessed By Satan'
Rosa Rubicondior
by Rosa Rubicondior
4d ago
Religious fanatics Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt. 30 Years in Jail for aggravated child abuse. Photo: Washington County (Utah) Sheriff's Department Religious fanatics Jodi Hildebrandt, left, and Ruby Franke, center, being arrested on child abuse charges on Aug. 30, 2023, in Ivins, Utah. Washington County Attorney’s Office via AP YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism | AP News Only a few days ago I wrote an article explaining why people who believe absurdities can be persuaded to commit atrocities and now we have a spectacular example of the truth of ..read more
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Creationism in Crisis - How The Milky Way Was Formed - 12-13 Billion Years Before 'Creation Week'
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by Rosa Rubicondior
4d ago
A visualisation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stars that Khyati Malhan and Hans-Walter Rix identified in the Gaia DR3 data set as belonging to Shiva and Shakti shown as colored dots. Shiva stars are shown in green and Shakti stars in pink. © S. Payne-Wardenaar / K. Malhan / MPIA Researchers identify two of the Milky Way's earliest building blocks | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Between 12 and 13 billion years before creationism's little god decided to create a small flat planet with a dome over it in the Middle east, where the only people to notice were simple goat-herders from ..read more
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Creationism in Crisis - How Early Modern Humans Survived a Massive Super-Volcano Which Spurred Their Migration Out Of Africa
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by Rosa Rubicondior
5d ago
Northern Africa. Inset: Part of South West Ethiopia around Shinfa-Meta 1 site Excavations at a Middle Stone Age archaeological site, Shinfa-Metema 1, in the lowlands of northwest Ethiopia, revealed a population of humans at 74,000 years ago that survived the eruption of the Toba super-volcano. Photo courtesy https://topographic-map.com, Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Toba super-eruption unveils new insights into early human migration | ASU News This, the fourth in a clutch of very recent papers that casually and unintentionally refute creationism simply by revealing the facts that ru ..read more
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Creationism in Crisis - Now It's a Giant Amazon Dolphin from 16 Million Years Before 'Creation Week'!
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by Rosa Rubicondior
6d ago
Type specimen (holotype) of Pebanista yacuruna, including a photo of the specimen and a surface 3D model in dorsal view. Image: Aldo Benites-Palomino. Ancient Giant Dolphin Discovered in the Amazon | | UZH The third in a clutch of very recent papers casually refuting the childish beliefs of the creation cult. This one concerns a giant freshwater dolphin that inhabited the Amazon 16 million years before creationists think there was a Universe, let alone an Earth with life on it. Tell me about the Peruvian Amazon 16 million years ago. Around 16 million years ago, during the Middle Mioce ..read more
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Creationism in Crisis - How Batesian Mimicry In The Female Diadem Butterfly Evolved - Convergently
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by Rosa Rubicondior
1w ago
Female Diadem Butterfly, Hypolimnas misippus Photograph: A Coetzer The female Diadem (bottom left) mimics the African Queen (top left). The male Diadem (right) keeps a distinct pattern to attract mates Scientists discover how Diadem butterfly mimics African Queen - News This is the second in a sudden spate of research papers that casually and unintentionally refute creationism without even trying, simply by revealing the facts. It deals with the evolution of Batesian mimicry in a species of butterfly. Scientists working at the universities of Exeter, Edinburgh and Cambridge, and Mpala ..read more
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