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Old 04-14-2002, 05:13 PM   #1
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Post Those Chemists are full of it... :-)

The next time a creationist points out something that was widely believed in evolutionary biology that turned out to be wrong as "proof" that evolution is false show them this:

<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020412074739.htm" target="_blank">Chemists Discover Molecule Considered Too Unstable To Exist </a>

So by the creationists' and Idists' "logic" we must reject organic chemistry and its atomic theory.

I bet it will take years to get all the textbooks corrected as well...
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S**t. And they taught me it was unstable, too, back when we were just getting over phlogiston. Maybe it really is magic gods in the treetrunks that make everything go.
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Nice, though to pick a nit with the article, cyclooctatetraene is not antiaromatic because it is not flat, so its electrons are not delocalised at all.

PS - Don't encourage them Lord V! Next they'll be claiming that all of organic chemistry is indeed a load of rubbish (except for anything which causes problems for Urey-Miller experiments, of course).

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Hey, when I flunked O-chem I thought it was a load of something worse than rubbish. I did learn to never take a course from the author of the textbook.
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Nice, though to pick a nit with the article, cyclooctatetraene is not antiaromatic because it is not flat, so its electrons are not delocalised at all.
Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing
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