1. James Cameron finds grave of Jesus & Son

Comment #23121 by OUMedStudent on February 26, 2007 at 12:59 pm

"any communion wafer"!!!! Hilarious!

2. The Only One in Step

Comment #14428 by OUMedStudent on December 22, 2006 at 11:58 am

Here is an excerpt from an email Andy wrote to a member of the forum:

"Molecules have no information system in them in themselves to form the structure necessary for the DNA which carries coded information. This information is neither matter nor energy. It is rather like software which is not defined by the
material itself. That information which sits on the structure of DNA is itself ensuring that the free energy of each chemical bond is maintained.
Left to themselves the nucleotide bonds would decay, as well as the polypeptide bonds of amino acids made by the RNA to form proteins. The molecules themselves cannot raise the ordered free
energy state."

It seems that Andy believes that there is some intrinsic property or information required simply to hold chemical bonds together. So his assessment is even worse than previously believed. Not only does he think Evolution by Natural Selection violates the Second Law, but he believes that without invoking divine machinery, the simple concept of a chemical bond would violate it as well.

3. Richard Dawkins on The Late Late Show with Pat Kenny

Comment #12149 by OUMedStudent on December 10, 2006 at 8:27 pm

I envy all of you in the UK. Have you ever watched American late-night television? I mean, I get the feeling that this show is not even the cream of the late-night crop and yet I cannot fathom being so utterly stimulated by watching TV here in the states. A debate this like simply would never happen here on network television.

While I find the same frustration in some of the audience's inability to grasp very fundamental aspects of the nature of science, I still applaud you all for living in a region where the debate is encouraged.