Thank you my friend, thank you very much.
In reply to this comment by residue:
aha welcome back!

aha welcome back!

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>> ^entr0py:

The poster on youtube said "maybe a little bit on the large side, but still a pretty normal sized hoop". And I think it's real time judging from the bit at the beginning.
So here's what I think is going on. Each time the girl spins within the hoop, that is in reality one rotation of the hoop. However, it takes at least six rotations for the camera to go around once. Start counting when the camera gets to her back to test this out. Subconsciously we're expecting the camera to go around her once for each hula, but that's not at all the case, because it's not really an orbit.


AHA! That's it. You rock for that explanation.

Ok...everybody sing together now!!!

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooh feeling good
The politics of moving, aha
If this message's understood

I'm not sure how you see yourself as any less dogmatic than I am..and Im sorry for making you sad. I hope that you haven't wasted too many kleenexs on me, but save them for yourself..you'll need them when you figure out evolution is wrong.

Here is the key portion of your wiki article:

"Ideally, this list would only recursively include 'true' transitionals, fossils representing ancestral specie from which later groups evolved, but most, if not all, of the fossils shown here represent extinct side branches, more or less closely related to the true ancestor"

What we see in the fossil record is that when something new shows up its all at once and is fully formed and then never changes. Ie, no true transitionals have ever been discovered. What has never been witnessed in the fossil record is steady progressive change of one kind of thing into something completely different.

You think this is a gap? It's a super massive black hole, and the vacuum may be in your head if you believe it. Here's some info:

John Bonner, a biologist at Princeton, writes that traditional textbook discussions of ancestral descent are "a festering mass of unsupported assertions." In recent years, paleontologists have retreated from simple connect-the-dot scenarios linking earlier and later species. Instead of ladders, they now talk of bushes. What we see in the fossils, according to this view, are only the twigs, the final end-products of evolution, while the key transitional forms which would give a clue about the origin of major animal groups remain completely hidden.

The blank spots on evolutionary "tree" charts occur at just the points where, according to Darwin's theory, the crucial changes had to take place. The direct ancestors of all the major orders: primates, carnivores, and so forth are completely missing. There is no fossil evidence for a "grandparent" of the monkey, for example. "Modern gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees spring out of nowhere," writes paleontologist Donald Johansen. "They are here today; they have no yesterday." The same is true of giraffes, elephants, wolves, and all species; they all simply burst upon the scene de novo [anew], as it were.

I think you're the one who needs to re-evaluate your beliefs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6EiN-3uWak




>> ^Skeeve:
>> ^shinyblurry:
the bar is still incredibly low..one of the best transitional forms out there is based on a whales nostril..i would find that embarassing if i believed in evolution. show me something convincing. also, give me an example of mutation that increases information in a genome while you're at it.
You've said that you aren't ignorant of science, yet you ignore the science that proves these things. You, and people like you, are not really interested in the facts, you are interested in finding all the gaps so you can point and say "aha, there is a god!" I am truly saddened by people like you - it breaks my heart that you can be so smart and so blind at the same time.
But you asked for yet more proof so I am at your service.
A (comparatively) short list of transitional forms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
As for the claim that mutations not increasing information in a genome:
"We have observed the evolution of
increased genetic variety in a population (Lenski 1995; Lenski et al. 1991)
increased genetic material (Alves et al. 2001; Brown et al. 1998; Hughes and Friedman 2003; Lynch and Conery 2000; Ohta 2003)
novel genetic material (Knox et al. 1996; Park et al. 1996)
novel genetically-regulated abilities (Prijambada et al. 1995)
If these do not qualify as information, then nothing about information is relevant to evolution in the first place."
You can look up those scholarly articles if you actually don't want to remain ignorant. They are listed here: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html

>> ^shinyblurry:

the bar is still incredibly low..one of the best transitional forms out there is based on a whales nostril..i would find that embarassing if i believed in evolution. show me something convincing. also, give me an example of mutation that increases information in a genome while you're at it.

You've said that you aren't ignorant of science, yet you ignore the science that proves these things. You, and people like you, are not really interested in the facts, you are interested in finding all the gaps so you can point and say "aha, there is a god!" I am truly saddened by people like you - it breaks my heart that you can be so smart and so blind at the same time.

But you asked for yet more proof so I am at your service.

A (comparatively) short list of transitional forms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

As for the claim that mutations not increasing information in a genome:
"We have observed the evolution of

increased genetic variety in a population (Lenski 1995; Lenski et al. 1991)
increased genetic material (Alves et al. 2001; Brown et al. 1998; Hughes and Friedman 2003; Lynch and Conery 2000; Ohta 2003)
novel genetic material (Knox et al. 1996; Park et al. 1996)
novel genetically-regulated abilities (Prijambada et al. 1995)

If these do not qualify as information, then nothing about information is relevant to evolution in the first place."

You can look up those scholarly articles if you actually don't want to remain ignorant. They are listed here: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB102.html

Aha! The music site was incompetech and the builder was incompetent. Who could have seen that coming?

>> ^Sagemind:

This video is Dead - why are you sending us there...?
Aha, This post may be a Dupe of the Dead post from four years ago...
>> ^EmptyFriend:
http://videosift.com/video/Judge-Judy-Opens-A-Can-Of-Whoop-Ass-In-Court




The title of the youtube video on that page is "eBay Scammer on Judge Judy" and the comments clearly indicate it was a dupe. I didn't play the video, so I didn't see that it was dead, but I thought the policy was to fix a dead link rather than have a dupe. If that's incorrect, I apologize.

>> ^Sagemind:

This video is Dead - why are you sending us there...?
Aha, This post may be a Dupe of the Dead post from four years ago...
>> ^EmptyFriend:
http://videosift.com/video/Judge-Judy-Opens-A-Can-Of-Whoop-Ass-In-Court




I don't know, Judge Judy opens a lot of cans of whoop-ass.

This video is Dead - why are you sending us there...?

Aha, This post may be a Dupe of the Dead post from four years ago...

>> ^EmptyFriend:

http://videosift.com/video/Judge-Judy-Opens-A-Can-Of-Whoop-Ass-In-Court

Aha! The true origin of egg rolls has been discovered!

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Aha, wow. Let's not pretend this is some great gift to the sift we should all appreciate before it's gone. It's a fake, horribly compressed 31 second clip that's also a dupe.

*isdupe

AHA - EUREKA!

Yes, Mono is the issue. I only use one side of the headphones at work.
At home on my laptop though, I'm going to have to look into that - the volume level has been lower than I expect lately, I guess something got changed somewhere - I'll have to go looking for what's going on.

Thanks (...so blatantly obvious once it's pointed out!)

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
It's because you don't hear the left channel. He only talks into the left channel.
In reply to this comment by Sagemind:
OK, too make myself clear - Something is wrong here.

When I listen to this video (both at home on my PC and at work on my Mac) I can hear the girl talking but as soon as it switches to him, his voice is dubbed over/replaced with music. Absolutely nothing can be heard from him. I've tried going directly to his Tube site and I've looked for other versions but everything I see, has the same music overlay.

Either something is messed up (Region Blocking?) or you guys are messing with me - hearing the same as me and pretending you can hear him (??)

*Confused!