Author Archives: A Bit Of Orange
Defining Evolution 17: Molecular Clocks
There was a very popular song when I was younger which expressed the theme, “Everybody’s Working for the Weekend.” While there is something to be said for the Friday night whistle before the two days reprieve from the fluorescently lit … Continue reading
Defining Evolution 16: Fossils
Somewhere on the horizon, like a beacon of hope in a storm of copies in triplicate filed with accounts receivable and marketing and meetings about the GNP sway toward diversified demographics whose profiles are identical to previous markets save the … Continue reading
Defining Evolution 15: More on Mutations
The days had flown by like five minutes under water, and we once again dragged our weary bodies into Danny’s Bar, Grill, and House of Rabblerousing for the plate of Nachos which is so big it has to be factored … Continue reading
Defining Evolution 14: Mutations
My friends and I had made it to the end of another Thursday, and met once more at Danny’s Bar, Grill, and House of Rabblerousing to celebrate with a mound of Nachos and all the root beer we could consume. … Continue reading
Defining Evolution 13: Vestigial organs
Another Thursday had come and gone, and we had fought our way valiantly through meetings, paperwork, and office coffee. We had scaled the cubical walls in marketing department sieges and taken many prisoners in the form of sticky notes and … Continue reading
Defining Evolution 12: Decent with Modification
It is the day of days! By which if course I mean, Thursday (Formerly Thor’s Day, but we’re no longer allowed to call it that without paying royalties to McDisneyBucks, very similar to THE BIG GAME which everyone refers to … Continue reading
Defining Evolution Ch 11 Summary: Genetic Drift & Migration
Genetic Drift/Migration is always listed among the mechanisms of evolution, but can new kinds of plants or animals come into being merely because some that already exist wander off? This topic leads into a discussion of “Changes in Allele Frequency” … Continue reading
Recommendation for Reading: The Great Divorce by CS Lewis
C.S. Lewis imagines a bus strip from hell into heaven to see if any of the citizens of hell would choose to stay. In a novel that reads like a fun stage play (Which has since been turned into a … Continue reading
Defining Evolution 11: Genetic Drift/Migration & Changes in Allele Frequency
“Hello again friends,” I said, standing tall, root beer in hand, “and welcome back to another discussion certain to get hate from people who don’t understand either side of the debate. When it comes to Creation vs Evolution I find … Continue reading
Defining Evolution Ch 10 Summary: Natural Selection
When Darwin said that Natural Selection was the means by which species originated, did he mean that? When you open up the book and read what he said, you find that the title, like much of what he wrote, was … Continue reading
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