protective coloring – Uncommon Descent

Genetics Intelligent Design Natural selection

Has a plant evolved a camouflage color to avoid humans?

If humans stopped picking them, would the green ones just start becoming more numerous again?

bornagain77 I touched upon the fact that the sequential information in DNA is now found to be a subset of quantum... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
bornagain77 More often than not, ET has the ability to pack more scientific punch in one sentence than a whole laboratory... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
mohammadnursyamsu Science has not caved to demands of the radical left, the scientific community is the radical left, scientific socialists. And... – Why science is losing prestige…
bornagain77 I really like what Pam Reynolds said after her fairly famous Near Death Experience, "I think death is an illusion.... – Child burial from 80,000 years ago...
kairosfocus BO'H, switcheroo again. Science studies the empirical, here features that show signs of design. The kind of configuration and function... – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
Sandy Jerry If one is interested in body plan formation, there is a section Meyer’s book, “Darwin’s Doubt” that discusses it.... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
jerry This is happening so rapidly by such a small number of people it’s hard to take it seriously but Google,... – Off topic: The Cancel Culture ragtag...
jerry Create a deal where we ship generic Viagra to China and Vietnam and they safeguard pangolins. Problem solved. – Nature attempts to paper over a...
ET How body plans are formed is not the same as what determines the body plan. To understand the challenge to... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
jerry If one is interested in body plan formation, there is a section Meyer’s book, “Darwin’s Doubt” that discusses it. Look... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
jerry This seems odd to me. It’s all about world-views. ID represents a world view that is unacceptable to the elites. – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
ET DNA just codes for RNAs. mRNA just codes for polypeptide sequences. DNA just codes for the raw materials. It does... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
ET Bob O'H: but you still haven’t explained how you can show that an unidentified designer has the power to do... – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
jerry If DNA does not specify the basic form of an organism then what does? One theory is that there is... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
ET Newton's four rules pertain to cause and effect relationships. Why that has to be said is beyond me. Scientific inferences... – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
ET We can't create life de novo because life is not reducible to physics and chemistry. – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
jerry Do we really know that animals do not get Alzheimer? We have a business catering to emergency veterinary care. While... – Why science is losing prestige…
Sandy Seversky If DNA does not specify the basic form of an organism then what does? If DNA has no bearing... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
polistra China has owned us for 40 years. We surrendered. War over. I'm terminally tired of fake surprise and fake subjunctives.... – Nature attempts to paper over a...
KRock Science has become increasingly politicized. More importantly, though, science has caved to the demands of the radical left, who derive... – Why science is losing prestige…
johnnyb What I found most perplexing about the discussion was this: Swamidass was adamant that we shouldn't expect any of the... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...