Sci-News – Uncommon Descent

At Sci-News: Early Humans were Present in Southeast Britain 620,000 Years Ago

Researchers: The archaeological site of Fordwich in northeast Kent, England, reveals the presence of Acheulean hominins — possibly Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis — in what is now southeast Britain between 620,000 and 560,000 years ago.

Cell biology Evolution Intelligent Design

At Sci-News: Chromatin First Evolved in Ancient Microbes 1-2 Billion Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Scientists hypothesize that chromatin evolved in this microbe as a result of selective pressures in the primordial environment of Earth.

Pater Kimbridge @KF #31 Creationists desperate to dress up religion to look like science. A noteworthy admission of the power that science... – At Evolution News: Conservation of Information...
asauber "Consider “one-bounce” cosmologies," We're right into full-blown fantasy . Yawn. It was inevitable. Andrew – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
asauber "If I have a car but there’s no gas in the tank, I can try to start it an infinite... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
capalas Silver: "You cannot traverse an infinity and then expect something else to happen." Consider "one-bounce" cosmologies, where the present expansion... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
kairosfocus Desperate to trivialise and marginalise functionally specific, complex information and/or associated information beyond 500 - 1,000 bits. A back door... – At Evolution News: Conservation of Information...
Silver Asiatic Capalas An infinite number of attempts at A failed because the proper conditions were not (yet) present. There's no "yet"... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
relatd SA at 14, If I have a car but there's no gas in the tank, I can try to start... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
asauber "Including this same internet thread." Jerry, Weird. Andrew – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
jerry Everything happened an infinite amount of times. Including this same internet thread. – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
asauber See you can't invoke infinity and then say something didn't happen in it. Everything happened an infinite amount of times.... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
asauber "And suppose in the infinite past P was always less than 1" Couldn't be. In an infinite past there would... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
jerry By definition if a thing does not happen in an infinite number of attempts, then it is “not possible”. Therefore,... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
capalas Silver at 14 "And why should an infinite universe entail that “everything possible must have happened”? "By definition, if a... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
Fred Hickson @ Related, It's OK to be unconvinced by an argument you don't like. The origin-of-life hardly matters to most people.... – How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?
relatd Capalas at 15, God has no beginning and no end. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
asauber Capalas, You are interpreting Bible passages in light of your own understanding. Yours might not be the correct interpretation. Andrew – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
capalas Asauber at 7. "God doesn’t have any kind of past or future. His creation does. Finite." The Biblical God has... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
Silver Asiatic And why should an infinite universe entail that “everything possible must have happened”? By definition if a thing does not... – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...
asauber "The term is not meant to be a full explanation" PK, It's not any explanation at all. Andrew – At Evolution News: Conservation of Information...
Pater Kimbridge @Relatd #28 I don't know why you rail against the concept of emergence. It just means that the whole can... – At Evolution News: Conservation of Information...
asauber "A journey of a thousand miles" Finite. "begins with a single step." Finite. Andrew – At Mind Matters News: 2. Infinity...