Albion

Well, having just been told on another board that there are no beneficial mutations but that harmful mutations sometimes have beneficial side-effects, I'm beyond being surprised by anything that these guys can come up with. Creationists are so cute when they get desperate...

Coragyps

My grandmother, for one. The missionary, doing God's work amongst the heathens, y'know.

OneWayTraffic

I learnt in 6th form biology (age 17 highschool) that scaling up organisms is more or less impossible except within strict limits. The problem is mathematics. As height increases by a linear factor; surface area increases proportionally to our height squared and our weight/volume by height cubed. For example a 7 foot tall rugby player doesn't weigh 45% more than a 5 foot tall human but easily twice as much.

So if we scaled up a human from 6 feet to 25 feet, our weight would increase to well over the ability of our scaled up skeleton to support us, our skin to regulate temperature from sweat, and more I don't have at my fingertips.

That's simple engineering. If you want to build a 400m tall tower you don't stack 80 five meter houses on top of each other.

JonF

It's most likely CLF was referring to the giant human femur. Of course, the skeleton in the drawing is impossible (it's a drawing of a scaled-up human skeleton , ignoring the square-cube law) and the femur is a sculpture of a scaled-up human femur based on descriptions from an unnamed source and an unreferenced excavation. Very convincing.

WILLOWTREE

I have been alerted that my opponent(s) desire to have an unfinished debate
continued in this Forum. (Jet Black #12)

I think Oolon/D.T.(?) should respond to the link Arbyter already posted.

I have "grasped" your argument - its just that I don't agree.

That other Forum wants to close the debate right when it was getting good.

BTW, I think the joke about Catholics was funny - right up your alley D.T.

It seems this Forum wasn't intelligently designed. How does a person respond to a particular post ? Or are the posts one long incoherent scroll ?

Waiting.......

Coragyps

Hi, Willowtree! The folks upstairs in the Existance of God(S) Forum would be delighted to have you tell them how their Godsense has been removed.....

now, back to the topic. You can quote from previous posts here using the little word balloon icon, but this forum doesn't have the "reply to" feature that EvC does.

Plognark

We typically simply grab the section we wish to refer to and drop it into quotes like so:
I agree that the software running this forum is a bit outdated, but it has its charms
Oh, here's the format for quotes:

[quote=name] and throw a " / " before the quote part to finish off the quote section.

WILLOWTREE

Coragyps quote:
__________________________________________________ _______________
You can quote from previous posts here using the little word balloon icon, but this forum doesn't have the "reply to" feature that EvC does.
__________________________________________________ _______________

Hi Cory !

What is a little word balloon icon ?

Thanks for your invitation into the other Forum. I will wander over there.

This will end my off topic stuff.

WT

Roland98

Instead of hitting "post reply," simply hit this:



and the person's post you're replying to will appear already in quote tags.

SEF

The little word balloon icon refers to the picture button above the text box when you are typing your reply. It is one of several picture buttons. That particular one looks like a cartoon speech bubble and automatically puts the QUOTE tags around some text for you in case you are not very good at typing forum tags yourself.

You might like to try some of the others too. The picture button showing a little landscape is for inserting IMG tags round the link address of a picture. The picture button showing an Earth and some sort of chain link (I think it is) is to create a link to some URL but showing different text than the link itself.