I've reformatted my laptop for the... i dunno how many times, just alot... time and now i've got 6Gb of windows 98 as operating system. Where did the other 14Gb go? i left them unpartitioned, to install linux later :p Managed to get my singnet dial up working now. Took two calls to the technical help desk, two calls to services help desk to get it done. Talk abt efficiency :(



Evolution



Is evolution a hoax? For many years there have been two sides, creation theory and evolution theory. One of the contest between the theories was that in creation theory, god created man in seven days (or one day in one of the seven days bleh). In evolution theory, it took millions of years for humans to evolve. Such contrasting thoughts generated lots of unrest in the early years of evolution theory.



But it is sad that supporters of the evolution theory has themselves evolved and taken a stand not dissimilar to the supporters of creation theory. 1981, Dr. Patterson, a senior paleontologist at the British Museum, and a respected evolutionary scientist of many years lashed out at fellow evolution theory supporters, "Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that is true?" He followed up with multiple cases of evolution predictions being falsified.



[quote] "Evolutionists all agree that evolution is a fact; the only disagreement is on how evolution occurred." How absurd. If evolution is to be taken seriously as a scientific theory, then it must be an explanatory statement regarding how changes occur over time. The means or mechanism of change is what a scientific theory must be all about. [end quote, Ref: Institute of Creation Research]



It seems that evolution supporters are hanging onto evolution as a fact, 'There is evolution and everything else falls in line', which is similar to creationist theory 'There is god and everything else falls in line'. So is evolution just another religion (i'm sorry if this sounds dismissive to the religious people) ? Can supporters of evolution theory break out of their own enforced paradigm?



Evolution is criticised as not observable, not testable and not repeatable. Perhaps there still is hope. And this hope i (yes the bandit) would believe resides in the common fruit fly. Perhaps can be made observable by experimenting on fruit flies. Why the fruit fly The common fruit fly is highly prized by biologists investigating genetics and developmental biology. The reason for this is that fruit flies grows fast (compared to mice), are cheap (compared to mice), and requires smaller storage (compared to mice). Perhaps evolution can be forced onto fruit flies for observable effects. Would that not serve as an indication that evolution is science and does exist?



PS: If you've got strong violent opinions about this post, please keep them to yourself.

PS: If you sympathize the flies... please, they are only flies.



obtw, here's an interesting fly experiment.



Beckman Research Institute in Los Angeles



"The male flies displayed clear heterosexual activities when temperatures were at 19 degrees, but above 30 degrees their behavior changed within minutes," the December issue of the German science magazine GEO reports.



"The male flies ignored the female partners at that point and chased after their male counterparts. As soon as the temperature was reduced again (to about 19 degrees), they returned to their original (heterosexual) behavior."



The common fruit fly is highly prized by biologists investigating genetics and developmental biology for the simplicity of its anatomy and its ancient roots in the insect family.



No inferences were drawn in the article linking the observed phenomenon with same-sex attraction in mammals.



So much for now, ciao.