As predators, snakes are missing a few key attributes. They have no legs to chase down their prey, no paws to knock down quarry, and no claws to hold their victims. But none of these deficiencies matters much, because evolution has handed snakes the ultimate weapon: venom. With it, the several hundred types of venomous snakes can kill or debilitate before their victims escape.
When you look at things from science you are supposed to look at the evidence and see where it points not start at your stance and try and find all the evidence to fit it. Evolution is far from proved so don't start you article out by talking about it as a fact, that is junk science. I really would like to know how venom works and what proteins and how cures might come out of it. I am interested in the actual science not the propaganda. If you want to start a religion blog then start one but this is popsci so don't talk about evolution here and how you believe life came to its present state. Remember Evolution is a theory that conflicts with major fundamental Laws, for instance the second law of Thermodynamics (entropy), The law of biogenesis. Entropy states that everything goes toward chaos without intervention from external force (evolution is not a force it is a process). The Law of biogenesis states that life comes only from life not from non-life. Also defined as information comes only from information... out of nothing you get nothing. Just using those two show evolution impossible and should be moved as a hypothesis that needs work. Mutations remove data from dna...to add features you must add data to dna not remove it. Mutations follow the law of entropy evolution contradicts it and has no evidence on the mutation side.
Looking at blood can be hard on anyone, but for some people, it can be a huge problem. Up to 30 percent of children are afraid of the sight of blood, a response that usually continues into adulthood, according to the definitive study on the topic, by Isaac Marks of the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
Its very simple...blood on the outside is not natural. And in the culture we live in, we go to the Market buy our prepackaged meat without having to personally shed the blood of an animal. We know innately that life is "contained" in blood so seeing it out of a circulatory system causes some to be squeamish. As with all things whatever we see lots of we become desensitized to. Those who can "handle" seeing blood are not cold but instead know what it means and know how to handle it, they have taught their body to calm down to handle the problem. I know what blood loss feels like it is not comfortable. In a culture that is shown lots of blood on the screen but not in real life have a interesting problem. They dismiss the blood but when they see it they are not prepared to handle it, those are the fainter's. When their screenplay hapens in front of them they just stand aghast. (they don't make good first responders) when i was eleven i was putting the cap on a scalpel and well the blade went through the cap and into my palm. Just about everyone around me fainted, I on the other hand was like ...great someone who is not throwing up or fainted give me a paper towel. Yeah it hurt, and my head was throbbing but i was just looking at my hand going ouch darn it why did i do that. I'm just glad the teacher kept her head on and gave me something other than my hand to stop the bleeding. Anyhow I agree on that seek treatment part, fainted people don't typically seek treatment.... :)
Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released this April called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design.
When will people actually go back and read the scientific method. Neither ID or Evolution is a scientific theory, they are both philosophical theories on the origin of life. To have a scientific theory the theory being tested must be, testable verifiable, falsifiable and repeatable. While both Evolution and ID have some scientific evidence pointing towards them neither can be called in truth science. The whole point of this movie that scientist should not be discriminated upon because their religious views do not line up with their department. This article does nothing more than blatantly show Popsci's disregard for science. As well as showing what religion the author has devoted himself to at all cost. To do research in the Scientific fields you must keep you mind open and look at the facts and examine many different theories to see where the facts lead. Not look through your favorite theory and see what facts it points at. I have read many books on this subject, from both sides. Perhaps you should too before you so hastily spit back out what you were fed in school. This is not a review of a film but a slanderous attack of a philosophical theory. If you really think ID has no legs to stand on why don't you show the facts supporting both theories. But that really shouldn't happen here, after all this site is supposed to deal with science not and not the debate between two opposing religions.
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