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I haven't posted here recently, and am presently in the SW USA in an RV catching internet connections only occasionally, so I may not be able to keep up if the thred continues, but besides my site (mentioned in the opening post of this thread, may I suggest a thread over at Internet Infidels for a look at both Algis's and my positions on this subject. That thread is .
My site has a
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Jim Moore
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We haven't gone to Chaco Canyon because it isn't paved, and the only vehicle we have is a motorhome. And a stiffly sprung motorhome at that. We've been over some bumpy stuff, like the (mercifully short road to Arcosante in Arizone, and a fire road on Vancouver Island) and it's not pleasant. Not to mention it tends to knock everything out of cupboards and so on (deafening to
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Jim Moore
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The anti-sex crowd might say a more sinister number would be two sixty nine.
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Jim Moore
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with text next to it saying "The image to the left is of the shoreline of South America in Mozambique"
Well, that's something that's been a secret all right.
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Jim Moore
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No, I didn't mean that humna habitat change was part of that megafuana period habitat change. I was only mentioning that because we see the massive of effects of habitata change that recently (in the last few hundred years) has been caused by humans and how that has been probably more harmful to many species than our sophisticated hunting and trapping/netting methods we've used in the
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Jim Moore
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The debate is marred by something that comes up a lot in questions about human evolution -- the desire to pin something on a single cause. It's always seemed more likely to me that most things have multiple causes, and the megafauna extinctions in NA almost certainly falls into that category.
The thing is, when you see any argument that goes on and on, with one side saying it's this
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Jim Moore
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Maybe it was a cohort of UK bankers disguised as Dutch bankers to stir up bad publicity for the Dutch banking system to try to counter the inroads ING is making in the UK.
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Jim Moore
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There are people out there that think it won't hurt anything if they do it just once not realising that their once along with all the other onces add up quite fast to large numbers and to some damage!
I think that's likely the biggest problem. Because after all, just doing it once, or even 800 bankers once, isn't going to make a big problem. Just like picking a blossom from a
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Jim Moore
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And Darwin's earthworm book can be DLed from Project Gutenberg for anyone interested.
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Jim Moore
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He was amazing, really. Spent loads of time studying barnacles too -- that was a large part of his learnign about variation in evolution, though pop stuff doesn't mention it as much as the sexier finches etc. And he was a terrific science writer; his stuff is very readable.
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Jim Moore
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Darwin did a study on the actions of earthworms and how they basically make things (like big rocks) sink through undermining the soil around them.
From this link about Down House
One of the most fascinating finds in the garden at Down House is the worm stone. Darwin had a long fascination with earthworms and devised many unusual experiments to study them, including exposing them to Emm
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Jim Moore
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Edward Felton over at Freedom to Tinker took a look at Wikipedia's entries on several things he knew well and found it pretty good, except that it fell down on the entry about the Microsoft antitrust case. He then did another look at those entries and compared them to the Encylopedia Britannica in this entry and found that, with the exception of the MS case, both were accurate but Wiki had
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Jim Moore
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I had a 2x4 maple beam hanging about when I deciced we needed a barricade crossbar for the back basement door at the old house. I used that because, while it could be cut, it would be more than a typical blade could take. On that piece I got about 5 inches into a cut with a jigsaw after a half hour once. And ironwood is worse by far.
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Jim Moore
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If you ever see a place that sells fancy hardwoods, stop by and pick up pieces of Boxwood and Ironwood, which are pretty much the extremes (except for balsa on the soft end, which you've probably seen and felt.
Ironwood is incredible -- it woun't float, you tap it against something metal and it really does sound like you're tapping with an iron bar. It's incredible to saw
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Jim Moore
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"There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"
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Jim Moore
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"The entire affair"? perhaps parts of it, but I think it's always best to sit back and see what shakes down over the course of some months (or more sometimes) in cases like this. I've been reading messages in Mikey's group now and see that these bones were seen, and photographed, at a press conference March 17th, while they were in Jacob's care and they weren'
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Jim Moore
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BTW, I did my post before reading the link -- I see it mentions a similar tale. But I don't know if Sanderson's tale was from the same area. As most people on this board know, many peoples have tales which fall into different categories, some perhaps from similar happenings in different areas, some perhaps travellers tales (even in olden times there was likely a lot of travelling arou
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Ivan T. Sanderson, who I'll point out was pretty darned credulous, but who I liked in his "unknown animals" books, mentioned the avrious accounts of "orang pendak", which was a wild man in Indonesia of the yeti/sasquatch/almas etc. sort. In some (but not most) of these accounts the descriptions were of a small people, and one account he dug up from some old geezer or gee
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Jim Moore
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What you describe actually is the multi-regional idea (when it isn't described inaccurately), and seems likely to me. There's a tendency to make a strawman out of the opposition's idea(s), and from my perspective, while this can be done by anyone, it's more often done to the "Multiregionalism" side by the "Out of Africa" side. They shouldn't do that,
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Jim Moore
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Except that I'd have to repeat that they'd be a below-average machinist.
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The people who have this rock aren't, apparently, letting anyone critical examine it, and if you scroll down the page and look at the third picture and click for the larger shot I think you can see why -- it looks like it's been dropped into a chiseled or machined-out hole(s). And not very well machined either -- check out the large gaps around the reel. I have known many machinists i
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Jim Moore
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I love it when they say things like "Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged."
What exactly do they think scientists do all day? What do they think scientists have been doing for the past 150 years?
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Jim Moore
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This sounds like it might be fun -- like what the Tomb Raider movies should've been.
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Jim Moore
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I don't know many specifics on the Tasaday, but this controversy was going on while I was regularly going to anthro conferences, and one thing very important to remember is that this story is bound up in some political dealings, with some powerful people trying to exploit the land these people lived on and others trying to protect it. My own gut feeling is that it's a hyped, but real p
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Jim Moore
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Sp it seems that it's: Well well well, the old UNorthodox apple cart goes crashing off the road once again.
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Jim Moore
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That's an old one. Here's a description of an earlier version of this story, pre-cell phone, involving a downed phone line on a dead man's grave.
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Jim Moore
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A cue to mention a terrific classic (easy to read and not too big) book, Paul A. Colinvaux's wonderfully titled "Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare".
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Jim Moore
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Here in the Pacific Northwest (well, I'm in Victoria, but we get the Seattle news) they've been talking about it for the past several weeks. They knew an eruption was coming because of the number of quakes on the moun tain (hundreds of them) but they were quite sure that it wasn't a big problem. Nothing like the big eruption, which took off a lot of the mountaintop and blasted th
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Jim Moore
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There's Ronald Reagan's "Facts are stupid things."
and more tangental, his: "A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
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Jim Moore
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Thank you. I think you made my point about the inappropriate generalizations being made about CSICOP. I just thought it was funny, and hypoctritical, of several posters who made those generalizations while condemning the idea of making generalizations.
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Jim Moore
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