p.s.: Once, I was an editor (back in the pre-computer era).
What if the Theory of Evolution is Right? (Part I)
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Dec 23, 2014
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#823
Congratulations, you beat gopher in the sprint to the line.
Commiserations to him. 
Piece of cake; took only a few minutes.
Nice illustration of the difference between a human and a chimp. No way can e99 dispute that. You've outdone yourself on this one...lol.
Thanks for the token. It shall be relished.
Dec 23, 2014
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#825
einstein99 wrote:
Or God at his finest! 😉
Because God would operate by using an "explosion" of forms over several million years?
That's not the story I remember being taught by Christians before this....
Having been brought up assiduously in the faith and after having read the entire Bible from cover to cover, twice, and having graduated with a 3.8 GPA from a Jesuit university...I designate for what e99 (I can't bear to call him "Einstein)" has said here, and throughout this forum, the Pinnochio Award through the power invested in me as OP of this thread.
And to Elroch, who has been a credit both to science and the human race for his staunch forbearance and "stiff upper lip" through the trials and tribulations of the unwashed, science-illiterate mystics and their mob-mentality associates and for his illustrious, informed illumination on the various and assorted "trutheyisms" of the credible science of evolution the Super Person (pc..."man" is a sexist word these days) award.
In case this isn't clear. These are the final, official awards of the Evolution is Right On The Money thread:
1st Place: Super Person Award
2nd Place: Pinocchio Award
Merry Christmas everyone, or happy New year, or happy Hanukkah, or happy holidays, or happy whatever! Don't have it in me to have a row with you guys.😅
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To Elroch:
Why are Version A and Version B not part of the differences between the 2 texts? And why is the spacing between the 2 versions and the first line of text not as well part of the answer?
Are double spaces and singles spaces as well as double hyphens versus single hyphen not formatting glitches? They could easily be.
Is formatting not the way in which something is arranged, set out or presented?
I personally consider the whole package as the format and not only selected extracts.
I may be wrong, then I will revisit the song Right or Wrong by Wanda Jackson and try to understand it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxXnD2bVaw
I have done text editing in the past on a number of occasions and always the whole presentation was part of the final approval. Do we have new editing rules in 2014 that supersede all previous conventions?
Do not get me wrong here, I have no objections to exclude some part(s) of the formatting from the answer as long as it is mentioned first hand and not as an afterthought because it does not concur with your answer.
I would personally say that anyone that detected any type of formatting issues deserves to be recognized as having solved your riddle.
To Elroch:
Why are Version A and Version B not part of the differences between the 2 texts? And why is the spacing between the 2 versions and the first line of text not as well part of the answer?
Are double spaces and singles spaces as well as double hyphens versus single hyphen not formatting glitches? They could easily be.
Is formatting not the way in which something is arranged, set out or presented?
I personally consider the whole package as the format and not only selected extracts.
I may be wrong, then I will revisit the song Right or Wrong by Wanda Jackson and try to understand it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxXnD2bVaw
I have done text editing in the past on a number of occasions and always the whole presentation was part of the final approval. Do we have new editing rules in 2014 that supersede all previous conventions?
Do not get me wrong here, I have no objections to exclude some part(s) of the formatting from the answer as long as it is mentioned first hand and not as an afterthought because it does not concur with your answer.
I would personally say that anyone that detected any type of formatting issues deserves to be recognized as having solved your riddle.
I believe that it is unfair to gopher-the-throat who exposed his findings giving an advantage to others.
To one and all:
To rickett222 and all:
I too have a background in proofreading. I thought the task was to compare version A to version B and find the differences. I found the differences but apparently misunderstood the task. Oh well, I think I can manage to continue on thru that failure. In other words, it just doesn't matter.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL YOU CHRISTIANS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO THE REST OF YOU.
For your diligence, persistence, all-around fair-to-middling proofreading skills and gracious attitude, I hereby grant you:
Dec 24, 2014
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#834
einstein99 wrote:
varelse1 wrote:
einstein99 wrote:
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That'anything' , can be an MRCA of 12,000 years for humans, which experiments have shown to be the case.
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Okay.
And that brings us back to the same question again.
We look at the genetic clock of two species, and find a divergence of 12000 years. And then we compare that to the fossil record, and it tells us those two species split 12000 years as well.
.And we can compare nearly any two species, amd the fossil record will usually match the genetic clock. Nearly every time.
Am I being asked to believe this is a giant coincidence?
Or is there another explaination?
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Dec 24, 2014
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#835
Have to tell this one.
A woman enlists in the Marines. She serves a tour in Iraq, and another in Afghanistan. Seeing heavy action in each.
Her enlistment complete, she goes reserve, and in her spare time, takes some classes at the nearby college. Cashing in on her GI Bill.
One of her classes is a philosophy course, the professor an atheist and member of the ACLU.
One day she arrives for class, and sits down at her seat. The professor arrives five minutes late, marches up to the platform at the front of the class, and says "If there truely is a God, may he knock me down off this platform right here and now! I'll wait fifteen minutes!"
Five minutes pass in silence. The class begins to shift nervously in teir seats. Ten minutes go by.
"Well?!" Says the professor. "I'm waiting!"
Finally, our veteran decides enough is enough. She stands up, marches straight to the professor, clocks him in the jaw, and sits back down again.
The class is dumbfounded.
Knees shaking and rubbing his jaw, the professor weakly gets back on his feet and says "What the hell was that?!
To which the woman replied "Well, you see. God was too busy watching over our troops who at this very moment are risking their lives, fighting for your right to stand up there, and say stupid shit. So He sent me to do it for Him!"
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varelse1 wrote:
einstein99 wrote:
varelse1 wrote:
einstein99 wrote:
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That'anything' , can be an MRCA of 12,000 years for humans, which experiments have shown to be the case.
.
Okay.
And that brings us back to the same question again.
We look at the genetic clock of two species, and find a divergence of 12000 years. And then we compare that to the fossil record, and it tells us those two species split 12000 years as well.
.And we can compare nearly any two species, amd the fossil record will usually match the genetic clock. Nearly every time.
Am I being asked to believe this is a giant coincidence?
Or is there another explaination?
.
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In other words V1, you con find any timeline you want, depending on where and how you do your experiments on generational mitochondrial comparisons.
Dec 25, 2014
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#838
As far as I can tell, the Marine/atheist professor story is an urban legend. See here: http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
It's even a stupid story: God's existence is supposed to be proven when the atheist professor does get knocked down within the allotted fifteen minutes--but he doesn't get knocked down by God; he only gets knocked down by a Marine whom we have no reason to think has any connection to God.
But I'm sure believers don't see it that way.
And I'm sure you have no sense of ironic humor.
It said no religious threads but I guess these anti religious threads are OK. Without making this a religious thread I'll just say this. I guess the Alligator... that looks exactly the same after all these years... got left out of that evolution chain. Want to know why they can't find the missing link? Because there is no missing link. If monkeys evolved into humans there wouldn't be any more monkeys. They would have all evolved into humans by now... but nope, monkeys are still monkeys just like that alligator is still the same.
Version A:
No more--
'Tis a consumnation