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Hawaii as a Nursery of Evolution

Richard Dawkins shows how the relatively young island chain of Hawaii acts as a nursery of evolution as it moves over a volcanic hotspot in the Pacific Ocean, generating new islands. He shows how Drosophila flies have diverged on the different islands, driven by sexual selection.

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The Trunk Monkey : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

The Trunk Monkey

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119 days 5 hours ago...

I should ask my relatives that I have over there about their Drosophila flies and if they notice a difference in their songs island to island.

I think they`ll just give me a weird look.

napalm4sd : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

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119 days 3 hours ago...

Awww, good for him, he is finaly putting his PhD to use, and not ranting on about religion anymore. I should send him some chocolates.

Nose Nuggets : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

Nose Nuggets

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119 days 2 hours ago...

not ranting on about fairy tales? no, i suppose not. hes going straight to the science and making religion look like what it is; nonsense.

DoctorRandomercam : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

DoctorRandomercam

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118 days 19 hours ago...

EVERYTHING in Hawaii is hallucinogenic. Seriously. You can`t even drink the water cos the fish pee a mescaline solution.

Megaclaw2 : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

Megaclaw2

7 votes NegativePositive

118 days 6 hours ago...

god damn you people. already starting topics about religion and skipping the true question. Why the hell did i just watch 2 minutes of flies trying to mate?

Csmack : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Csmack

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118 days 4 hours ago...

Nose Nuggets, talking on science doesn`t say anything on religion. They`re 2 separate things. When Francis Collins gives a lecture on evolution, he isn`t bashing his religion. Please get that through your head.

Fillefjonkan : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Fillefjonkan

2 votes NegativePositive

118 days 2 hours ago...

^ Because all sex is good sex. Awww yeah! Giggity giggity!

dj_bok_choi : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

dj_bok_choi

0 votes NegativePositive

117 days 21 hours ago...

^^ They are the same thing because they both describe reality. One of these realities is patently false.

Nose Nuggets : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

Nose Nuggets

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117 days 14 hours ago...

Csmack: Those of religion cant seem to get your statement through their head, actually. Religion in all its form and glory is fiction, pure and simple. If people want to talk about evolution and not touch on religion, that`s fine, that`s their prerogative. But to say that discussing science says nothing about religion is just laughable, as science is everything that religion is not. Its inherent in any discussion of evolution that religion will be beaten like a red-headed step child. to put it simply, thy cannot co-exist in a society of reasonable and rational thinkers.

Wrykilx : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

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117 days 13 hours ago...

Go easy on Csmack. He`s having a hard time getting it through his head that Evolution completely disproves the ridiculous and laughable biblical account for human creation. So when Francis Collins is giving a lecture on Evolution, he IS contradicting what it says in the bible, though probably unintentionally.

Cahu : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Cahu

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117 days 9 hours ago...

If anyone reading this, thinks that evolution in any way contradicts religion, then I`m sorry to say, you are ignorant.

The truth is that, MOST ATHEISTS believe conscience (self awareness) came as a consequence of evolution, which doesn`t mean evolution cannot happen in parallel to creationism.

So if you don`t want to belong to the bag of empty babling baboons that talk all day about nothing (ie.: that kid that always seems to know what he`s talking about, but nobody likes) then please get your facts straight.

Wrykilx : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Wrykilx

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117 days 8 hours ago...

Evolution doesn`t contradict the entire religion ... just the stupid explanations they have for human existence. Cahu, if you think that evolution doesn`t contradict and disprove the creation stories in the Quran and Bible then you either haven`t read them or conveniently choose to ignore that falsified section. Either way, educate yourself on the matter before telling other people to get their facts straight. Thanks.

Cahu : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Cahu

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117 days 7 hours ago...

^I`m sorry, but you failed to say anything of value in your comment. All you did was call me uneducated, with absolutely no argument in your favour.

Wrykilx : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Wrykilx

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117 days 7 hours ago...

Apparently reading comprehension isn`t your strong suit either, Cahu. Read what I typed again, slowly if need be. I told you that the explanations of human existence that are in the Bible and the Quran are disproved by the theory of Evolution to the extent of hilarious absurdity. If you think that the religious explanations of human existence do not tread into the realm of science, think again.

Csmack : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Csmack

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117 days 4 hours ago...

Nose Nuggets "cannot co-exist in a society of reasonable and rational thinkers."
- Religion didn`t present any enormous contradiction to some of the greatest minds of science, who I suspect were much more rational than you.

@ Wrykilx, are you unaware that I`m mot an opponent of evolution? I believe it`s the best scientific theory addressing the matter. The Church has stated time and time again that evolution poses no contradiction to Christianity. The problem comes along when fundamentalists and atheists like you try to interpret the Bible as a science book. A lesson I learned as a small child: don`t look to the Bible for science; that`s not its purpose. You could benefit from that lesson.

I have no problem maintaining both my religion and evolution and neither does Francis Collins, who knows science better than you ever will. I think he could have spotted such an obvious contradiction.

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