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Hat tip to Auke for his transcript. { } description of non-verbal events, actions. [ ] time stamp, minutes:seconds, from Auke’s audio recording. < > word unclear, sounds like. Please keep in mind this is a transcript of a live talk, not something Dr Batten thoughtfully and carefully wrote himself. Now here is the piece [...]

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Hat tip to Auke for his transcript. { } description of non-verbal events, actions. [ ] time stamp, minutes:seconds, from Auke’s audio recording. < > word unclear, sounds like. Please keep in mind this is a transcript of a live talk, not something Dr Batten thoughtfully and carefully wrote himself. You know, if you got [...]

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Hat tip to Auke for his transcript. { } description of non-verbal events, actions. [ ] time stamp, minutes:seconds, from Auke’s audio recording. < > word unclear, sounds like. Please keep in mind this is a transcript of a live talk, not something Dr Batten thoughtfully and carefully wrote himself. [28:58] I want to show [...]

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Hat tip to Auke for his transcript. { } description of non-verbal events, actions. [ ] time stamp, minutes:seconds, from Auke’s audio recording. < > word unclear, sounds like. Please keep in mind this is a transcript of a live talk, not something Dr Batten thoughtfully and carefully wrote himself. A Japanese scientist suggested this [...]

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Hat tip to Auke for his transcript. { } description of non-verbal events, actions. [ ] time stamp, minutes:seconds, from Auke’s audio recording. < > word unclear, sounds like. Bold: my additions/corrections. Please keep in mind this is a transcript of a live talk, not something Dr Batten thoughtfully and carefully wrote himself. [11:13] Well [...]

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I’m going on holiday, so I’m now posting daily sections of the talk with only brief comments in between. Think of this as audience participation time. (Hopefully not audience speculation time though, I’d love it if my comments remained the least informed of the lot. ) Hat tip to Auke for his transcript. Key: { [...]

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Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 — May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. (Wikipedia) He and Niles Eldredge developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, a theory that states that phenotypic [...]

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Hat tip to Auke, who transcribed the recent creationism seminar: Creationist rubbish: read all about it Posted 2008 March 14 @ 22:54 – filed under Bullshit. On March 05, Dr D. J. Batten (B.Sc., Hons., Ph.D.), who is affiliated with Creation Ministeries International, came to spew nonsense on the campus of the University of Stellenbosch. [...]

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In last week’s Creationism seminar, Donald James Batten, B.Sc.Agr. (Hons 1), Ph.D. ended his talk with a calculation showing how unlikely it is that a particular protein would form via random chance alone. I did not verify all the numbers in his calculation. I see no need to, because his calculation was completely unrelated to [...]

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Creationists believe that, prior to Adam taking a bite out of the forbidden fruit, Lions, and all other predators including Tyrannosaurus Rex, ate plants. They believe this because they believe “there was no death before the fall”. When Adam took a bite of the forbidden fruit, the digestive systems of all predators spontaneously (or gradually?) [...]

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