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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Glad to have our resident clown lighten up the air. :D Wolbachia's counter move is deadly and effective. It produces a toxic chemical in the sperms of the male wasp, which when entering the eggs of a healthy female, kills the eggs! The bacteria inside the infected females, on the other...
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    Intelligent Design is not creationism

    When we asked for such data that you claimed to support a design inference (while not ruling out a non-design inference, as you claimed), you dodged every time. Compare your two posts and you know who's lying.
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Next move, wasp. If a female is infected, then her eggs are definitely infected. A male wasp would gain an advantage if he can tell the difference between an infected female and a healthy female. This would be difficult for him under the normal circumstances - he cannot see the bacteria...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Let's talk some more about Wolbachia. I'm speaking from memory so some details could be wrong. I'm not going to name the specific insects to avoid getting them confused. With these disclaimers, let's start. Wolbachia infects a large number of species. This bacteria is very peculiar because...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    No harms done. The convenience of being able to post quickly sometimes has its drawbacks...:) Please stick around, we may have some more fun. I'm planning to have a discussion on this funny insect, what's its name, Wolbachia, and how it relates to the game theory.
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Only an idiot would try to draw the conclusion that my evidence "disproves a Designer." The title of this thread is "evidence of evolution," and I've always been clear about what I was trying to prove - the triumph of the evolution theory.
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Here is the equation: x=(n-1)(2n-1)/n(4n-1) and it was in the very first post. I have not changed the line of reasoning at all. It simply took more explanation for you to understand what I was saying. My entire point has been that this equation x=(n-1)(2n-1)/n(4n-1) in which x represents...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    I'm simply stating a fact - anyone unable to understand my post after the 2nd time, with all the hints I gave, has got to be handicapped one way or another. One may indeed say that the equation x=(n-1)(2n-1)/n(4n-1) (x is the percentage of male offspings, n is the number of foundresses...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Very persuasive. Very well done. Comical, with grammatic errors and all.
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Showing your real colors now. I have offered evidence of evolution. It's your turn to offer the evidence of God.
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    You still don't get it. Whether it's XY or something else is totally irrelevant. The Nature always have ways to change the ratio if evolution requires it to do it. If X-Y mechanism always produces 1:1 ratio, and it is more favorable evolution wise to have a 1:3 ratio, then nature will find a way...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    This was in the original post: "The evolution theory also predicts that if the males compete only in a local population (within a single herd, for example) while the females disperse throughout the global population (leaving the herd at adulthood), then the percentage of males should drop...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Let's assume that it's no trouble at all for the Creator. The fact remains, though, that the design leaves the determination of the gender to a bacteria, rather than genetically. It certainly makes it more complex (to us, that is) than if there were only the X and Y chromosomes. And AFAIK, no...
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    Why no bible books between 450BC and 60AD?

    Let's see. Much of science is in infancy and they're little more than faith. So then why are you bragging about your BS? Don't you feel rather foolish? If someone claims that he is a blackbelt in martial art and then tells you that martial art is all show and is no use in real fighting, would...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Alright. I started out with the discussion of 1:1 ratio because that was what everyone knows about. The real point was contained in the link I gave, which points out that in the animal kingdom this ratio varies greatly from species to species. If everything is 1:1 then it's not very...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Your ignorance is glaring: The Standard International unit definition defines the speed of light to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s. So there is no need to prove it neither a need for appealling to authority. It is a scientific definition. They're not. All claims that fingerprints are unique...
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    Evidence of evolution: Sex ratio as a function of male competition

    Thank you for providing the best argument against the ID theory. You're perfectly right. All this design nonsense must've been created by the devil to confuse us and make us question our faith in God. We don't even know our own mind. How can we understand the intelligence of one who created the...
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    Is the US ready to battle Turkey?

    Turkey is ready to invade Iraq http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-04-12-turkey-iraq_N.htm
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