It’s been a slow week. Since writing the previous post – which was rather long – I’ve been resting my fingers, attending to other hobbies (so, apparently, if you convert a program from c to c++, and replace the structs with classes, you get less segmentation faults. Or at least you do when I’m writing [...]
Archive for September, 2011
25 Sep
Ideological Indoctrination
It’s been several weeks now, but I still can’t find the new K-12 blog promised by this month’s Acts and Facts magazine to appear sometime this “Fall” – a season which I understand is roughly equivalent, time of year wise, to NZ’s Spring. But not to worry – the ICR has been in the indoctrination [...]
23 Sep
It’s Dinofuz!
So, as I predicted in my DpSU Predictions post only a few days ago, Brian Thomas of the ICR has indeed written an article on the subject of the Mesozoic feathers preserved in Amber, called Have Scientists Finally Found ‘Dinofuzz’? Here’s a picture of what we’re talking about, which you will have already seen if [...]
22 Sep
The Paths of the Seas
“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” Launched on the 10th of June this year the Argentine satellite SAC-D is better known as Aquarius after its main scientific instrument. Aquarius is built and run by NASA for studying ocean salinity, and is expected to operate for three of the satellites [...]
21 Sep
The Black Death
The Plague: Birth of a Killer is the title of Brian Thomas’ latest DpSU. Naturally it is about the reason why the plague bacteria kill people, considering how wonderful God is. something about the fall? Excuse me while I grab a nice, red, juicy apple…
20 Sep
DpSU Predictions – September 20
Today’s DpSU – Design in DNA: Flexibility Is Just Right – is pretty boring. The flexibility of DNA is just right – too little and it would break, too much and it wont return to its shape (or something like that) – blah, blah, blah. If you really need me to explain exactly how this [...]
19 Sep
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Genome, by D. melanogaster
Today’s DpSU is called Transposon Behavior Negates ‘Selfish Gene’ Theory.
15 Sep
Diplodocus, And Other Non-Avian Dinosaurs
It must have been a month now since Brian Thomas last showed his ignorance of the process of Natural Selection. Today’s post is called Nature Article Inadvertently Confirms Dinosaur Design. Only in La-la land. The ‘nature article’ is in Nature News (not to be confused under any circumstances with NaturalNews) and is called Dinosaurs: Rise [...]
15 Sep
A. sediba, and The Star That Should Not Exist
A. sediba, and The Star That Should Not Exist – two DpSUs for the price of one!
