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Researchers are probing why some invertebrates are as smart as vertebrates. It seems that there is no straightforward evolutionary path to smartness.

jerry I suggest quantum phenomena give every index of being random. Are you positing a fifth force that you do not... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET I see that Fred is still too afraid to actually make a case. Only cowards throw out accusations and don't... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JHolo The rest of the world is also to blame for not fully and officially recognizing Taiwan as an independent country.... – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...
Fred Hickson Who do you think you agreed with, Jerry? Some very odd assertions in your comment #209 that contain preconceptions that... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus Jerry, you exemplify my point. I start from temperature as a measure of average random kinetic energy per degree of... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry What’s there to be afraid of I mention two. One it is self refuting. That is to enact significant change... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
asauber Jerry, It would be interesting for one of the Evolutionists commenting here to engage in a discussion of what the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry Round and round we go never getting anywhere. I thought we agreed that there is no such thing as random.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus PPS, some hold randomness a fiction, too. – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus PS, we have been playing a game against nature here since 1995. Not all have survived the volcano experience. Similarly,... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus VL, look above at the implications of suggestions made in the thread. And, some do make that assertion out there.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Bob O'H Querius @ 167 - So yes, my hypothesis is that all “junk DNA” has a function, though likely to have... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic Isaiah 45:7 The Hebrew words used for peace and evil in this verse are shalom and ra. The word shalom... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
Viola Lee And what exactly was "confessed"? And whoever said randomness required a flat distribution? – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
martin_r as to communists, war, biology and other stuff, let me add this short David Attenborough style parody video about Russian... – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...
kairosfocus F/N: A Wikipedia confession: In common parlance, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of pattern or predictability in events.[1][2]... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET How is it not trivial, Fred? From Ernst Mayr, in "What Evolution Is": Do selection and elimination differ in their... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Fred Hickson ...natural selection is non-random in a trivial sense in that not all variants have the same probability of being eliminated.... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
ET seversky: Has there been a time when the mainland Communist regime has not been contemplating the invasion of Taiwan? Yes – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...
ET Ram: Your version of God has to be held responsible for everything (Isaiah 45:7) What if I don't have a... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
polistra We're bombing our own people and every country except China.. China has been attacking only its own people for a... – Is China seriously contemplating [imminent?] invasion...