The Country Shrink on January 13th, 2009

And then did we, the Most High Scientists, discover that we may soon be able to look back before the Big Bang happened (praise Science). We’ll go ahead and use the word “before” even though time did not exist, and please do not worry about it, because you would become confused anyway. Because of the appearance of lopsidedness in the Universe, we do now think we can catch a glimpse of what existed before the Big Bang.

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The Country Shrink on January 11th, 2009

I thought I’d provide a few recent snippets along these lines.
1). The First Animal on Earth was More Complex than Previously Thought
ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2008) — A new study mapping the evolutionary history of animals indicates that Earth’s first animal — a mysterious creature whose characteristics can only be inferred from fossils and studies of [...]

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The Country Shrink on January 10th, 2009

I’ve written before about how Ocam’s razor consistently slices the wrong way in biology…meaning that there is a continuous trend of discovering that the machinery of life is more complex than previously thought. 
Scientists have recently discovered,(1) that ribosomes have a “proofreading step,” which is said to recognize errors shortly after making them and has an [...]

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The Country Shrink on January 4th, 2009

It is a frequent argument of Darwinist apologists that critics of Darwinism are unqualified to criticize evolutionary theory because they lack the credentials or training.  I would also assert a corollary,(1) if this argument is accepted:  one can only accept the whole of Darwinism with sufficient training.
I assert this, because of my fallible view of [...]

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The Country Shrink on December 27th, 2008

And then did we decide, that the Universe could be teeming with aliens. Sure, we decided that a planet must have the right mass, be the right distance from a star, have the right atmosphere, the right material composition, and the ability to sustain water.(1)

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The Country Shrink on December 12th, 2008

And then did we, Most High Scientists, run a computer simulation of the universe back many billions of years in time.  We do know you are impressed by computer simulations (praise Science).  We hope you will forget we cannot predict the weather of this planet very well more than a few days ahead.  We shall, [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 29th, 2008

And then did we, Most High Scientist, put to bed the mystery of the origin of sex. Sex did arise from hermaphrodites (praise Science), as we do now know from our study of strawberry plants.(1) Well at least in plants, but we’ll title the article as if the whole mystery we did solve, because [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 22nd, 2008

Then did we discover that some of those early trails that we did think were from multi-cellular creatures1 (or evotures to coin a phrase unconnected with the root term Creation), were actually from a gigantic single-celled organism.

This giant single celled creature’s trails were from 10 million years before the Cambrian explosion did occur.2 Within 5,000 [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 22nd, 2008

I finally got to see the documentary (I signed up for Netflix on my Xbox 360–cool). I think it was very well done, and it points out the true state of science and academia. While it made use of strong visual rhetorical devices, I found them compelling and not inappropriate.
I would also say [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 15th, 2008

And then did we discover that minerals did co-evolve with life.1 Not that minerals did mutate, but that biological processes did transform the interstellar grains into the thousands of minerals that we find on the Earth today. All of the elements did exist in that early primordial dust, but praise Science that life [...]

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