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04-14-2002, 05:13 PM
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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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04-14-2002, 05:54 PM
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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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04-14-2002, 06:09 PM
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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).[ April 14, 2002: Message edited by: Pantera ]</p> |
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04-14-2002, 07:51 PM
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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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04-14-2002, 08:04 PM
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