tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post1126109375564988671..comments2024-03-27T00:26:19.644+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Unintelligently Designed Fractal Ediacarans Rosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-8892012615332022462014-08-16T15:50:30.316+01:002014-08-16T15:50:30.316+01:00Thanks for the correction.
I changed the calcula...Thanks for the correction. <br /><br />I changed the calculation in Excel but forgot to change the label. I'll redo the chart and correct the text.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-12892904375043181972014-08-16T15:35:47.570+01:002014-08-16T15:35:47.570+01:00Just now I read another article on the web, this t...Just now I read another article on the web, this time about speciation: http://pleiotropy.fieldofscience.com/2014/08/as-niches-are-filled-up-by-new-species.html?spref=tw<br /><br />A quote from that one: As niches are filled up by new species speciation slows down. Comes to a halt, even. This makes sense, as the niches are ways of life that organisms can have, if there are no other ways of life currently available, thing will stay the same. This is in line with a mode of speciation driven by niches, in accordance with the Ecological Species Concept by Van Valen (1976)*.<br /><br />I hope that creationists will read also that article, but I'm afraid they don't dare to do it, because the speciation processes described in it confirm the evolutionary mechanisms and contradict divine creation. Helmer von Helvetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136543309048013677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-4511461642309672742014-08-16T15:06:32.449+01:002014-08-16T15:06:32.449+01:00Rosa, this blog article should be an eye-opener fo...Rosa, this blog article should be an eye-opener for creationists, but I'm afraid they're not interested in reading this sort of articles that explain life's "march" from simplicity to complexity. And like Jehovah's witnesses they're probably more or less strictly forbidden to read articles and books not approved of by their leaders. To avoid cognitive dissonance - which can evoke doubts if there really exists a divine creator of life - and instead continue believing in imaginary friends in heaven is much more important for those people.<br /><br />Nevertheless, I intend to give some link tips in this comment. Why not start with this link: http://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/ ?<br /><br />Don't forget to download this one-pager: http://fractalfoundation.org/fractivities/WhatIsaFractal-1pager.pdf .<br /><br />Even our brains are built by evolution using fractals. Here is a quote taken from the following article's abstract: http://nro.sagepub.com/content/20/4/403?etoc :<br /><br />The introduction of fractal geometry for the quantitative analysis and description of the geometric complexity of natural systems has been a major paradigm shift in the last decades. Nowadays, modern neurosciences admit the prevalence of fractal properties such as self-similarity in the brain at various levels of observation, from the microscale to the macroscale, in molecular, anatomic, functional, and pathological perspectives. Fractal geometry is a mathematical model that offers a universal language for the quantitative description of neurons and glial cells as well as the brain as a whole, with its complex three-dimensional structure, in all its physiopathological spectrums.<br /><br />For fractal neurons, also take a look at http://fractalfoundation.org/OFC/OFC-1-6.html . <br /><br />For those very much interested in fractals in nature I recommend these 19 pages, full of explaining pictures and easy to understand texts: http://fractalfoundation.org/fractivities/FractalPacks-EducatorsGuide.pdf<br />Helmer von Helvetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136543309048013677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-44303527782864158082014-08-16T12:25:57.162+01:002014-08-16T12:25:57.162+01:00The blue line apparently falls hyperbolically (not...The blue line apparently falls hyperbolically (not exponentially) according to 1/R, hence should've been labeled SA/Volume.<br />The inverse ratio Volume/SA is a linear function of R and as such would've looked a straight ascending line.maxghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11396341324130442982noreply@blogger.com