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Post by m52nickerson on Sept 29, 2009 9:30:24 GMT -5
Also, are there any Star Wars fans who DON'T consider George Lucas a complete and total hack? *Puts hand up*
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Post by Tiger on Sept 29, 2009 9:41:55 GMT -5
Also, are there any Star Wars fans who DON'T consider George Lucas a complete and total hack? *Puts hand up* Perhaps I was exaggerating a teensy bit. You may not consider him a hack, but I doubt you worship him with the slavering devotion some other creators of fiction get.
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Post by m52nickerson on Sept 29, 2009 9:52:45 GMT -5
Perhaps I was exaggerating a teensy bit. You may not consider him a hack, but I doubt you worship him with the slavering devotion some other creators of fiction get. Correct. I don't think he is a hack, but I don't think that every thing he does is great.
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Post by Vene on Sept 29, 2009 14:19:08 GMT -5
Did I mention that organ transplants are based on evolution? I think I should. Elaboration, please. Two simple words, animal testing. It would make no sense to see if these kinds of procedures work on animals if we weren't related to them in some way. Not to mention that our understanding of the organs largely comes from various animals and, again, without decent, there would be no reason to think we're similar.
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Post by Tiger on Sept 29, 2009 15:26:24 GMT -5
Two simple words, animal testing. It would make no sense to see if these kinds of procedures work on animals if we weren't related to them in some way. Not to mention that our understanding of the organs largely comes from various animals and, again, without decent, there would be no reason to think we're similar. Just to play devil's advocate... the fact that the machinery inside animals and humans is similar isn't exactly conclusive evidence of a hereditary relationship.
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Post by Vene on Sept 29, 2009 16:54:55 GMT -5
Actually, it is. For a simple comparison you can look at the vertebrate eye, the arthropod eye, and the cephalopod eye. All three of these organs are used to process electromagnetic radiation and allow the brain to interpret the information. They all do it in different ways. That's because they have different evolutionary origins. Because there are multiple solutions to the same problem those that have the same solution have the same origin. This is also confirmed using other methods of analysis (like the fossil record and genetics). We don't us spider eyes to figure out how human eyes work and to teach students how human eyes work, cow eyes are a much better option. This is because they are close to us and, as a direct result, have the same machinery. The spider is not nearly as close to us, and since the eye evolved independently, it has different machinery. This is actually a subbranch of evolutionary biology called comparative anatomy and has been reliably used by many scientists.
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Post by Tiger on Sept 30, 2009 15:37:47 GMT -5
That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Sept 30, 2009 18:24:19 GMT -5
Perhaps I was exaggerating a teensy bit. You may not consider him a hack, but I doubt you worship him with the slavering devotion some other creators of fiction get. Correct. I don't think he is a hack, but I don't think that every thing he does is great. 'Course, I'm not really a "Star Wars fan," but whatever.
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