obesity – Uncommon Descent

Medicine

At Stat News: Science has got obesity all wrong

A science writer reflects on the way paradigms work. If he’s right, a popular paradigm it was dangerous to doubt will come under fire.

Culture Human evolution Intelligent Design

Did fatness rule the Stone Age?

Not all Stone Age Venus figurines, of which 200 have been found, were fat. It doesn’t seem as though much has changed over 25 millennia except that many more people have much more to eat. So fatness wouldn’t signify success in more modern cultures.

polistra The only solution is PRECISELY ZERO government funding and VERY SMALL corporate funding. Let worthy projects gather their own patrons... – Policy analyst: More funding is not...
polistra Excellent narrative. – Granville Sewell on the first “self-replicating”...
Silver Asiatic Querius What if you destroy life by eating it? Murder? It's a great question. There have been human societies that... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Silver Asiatic BA77 Why Fossils Cannot Demonstrate Darwinian Evolution Claims of convergent evolution are proof of this. Genetic similarity does not match... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
Silver Asiatic Part 2 of Loenning's paper gives much more detail: http://www.weloennig.de/GiraffaSecondPartEnglish.pdf 99.99% of all mammal species possess exactly seven neck vertebrae.... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
EDTA >"...are highly suggestive proxy evidence for the earliest clothing in the archaeological record..." Clothing, yes. But when was the first... – Evidence of clothing from 90 000...
bornagain77 Yes Querius, given the Cambrian explosion by itself you would think that Darwinists would be far more reticent in claiming... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
ronvanwegen A few hundred thousand (?) naked apes wandering around. One of 'em grunts, "Imma now gonna tie this piece of... – Evidence of clothing from 90 000...
Silver Asiatic LCD This world is made by God to produce saints(to replace fallen angels) Great thought - perfectly stated. That thought... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
vividbleau “but also providing concrete evidence of how one creature evolved into another.” It does no such thing “Also, fossils aren’t... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
Silver Asiatic Seversky Human parents are regarded as being responsible for the care and well-being of their children Yes, exactly. We don't... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Silver Asiatic Querius To your point, all these changes will certainly manifest themselves continually in tangible ways, or the person is a... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
vividbleau KF Welcome back I hope things are settling down for you Vivid – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius Seversky, The problem is when you try to anthropomorphize God. God created space and time and does not have human... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius The problem with the calories in/calories out approach is that it ignores the 30-40% drop in basal metabolism under caloric... – At least, the “science of obesity”...
Seversky Silver Asiatic/216 If your own life belongs to your creator, then it is His. So, it wouldn’t be immoral for... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Lieutenant Commander Data 1. Why do some detractors care when they are already intractably wedded to MN? 2. Why do some detractors not... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius Bornagain77 @19, Loved your post, especially this quote! “No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
Querius KF, Wonderfully articulated and stepped through! Since there are some who continually impose and propagate methodoligical naturalism in spite of... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
polistra A better way to avoid deceit is to train the computers on reality. When students have their HANDS AND SENSES... – Design inference: AI, ID, and detecting...
jerry There’s actually more to be found if you Google on “giraffe fossil record” – if you are interested, that is.... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...