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do factories make fibreglas boats what s the recipe for latex paint who invented artificial ice how much hand work is there in a hockey stick how do they get the lead into a pencil the flanges onto a carburettor the filling into a chocolate stay tuned share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in communication entertainment science technical communication technology visual communication tags education science television visual communication leave a comment centre for inquiry conference with added art march 5 2010 monado ammonite vs trilobite by glendon mellow canada s first national cfi conference started thursday and is continuing until sunday its theme is the intersection of art and science with the major attention grabbing sessions on saturday the very first session is an exposition on the relatively recent discoveries that connect the evolution of art with the evolution of humanity and language and reducing the suddenness of the cro magnon explosion some of the evolutionary art of glendon mellow will be on exhibit with a few pieces for sale share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in art culture events science tags art science skepticism visual communication 1 comment why do people laugh at creationists part 19 evilution october 31 2008 monado this is thunderfoot s favourite video in his series why do people laugh as creationists share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in communication science tags creationism evolution movies visual communication wdplac leave a comment u s debt clock runs out of digits october 9 2008 monado the u s national debt clock has run out of digits as the debt has more than doubled under george w bush it s now over ten trillion u s dollars for now the dollar sign is being replaced with a 1 in the new year the sign will be replaced by one with more digits for the total debt and for each person s share now over 80 000 perhaps douglas durst son of the late seymour durst the clock s inventor will take advantage of the change to choose some other colour scheme than white on light blue share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in visual communication world tags economics u s visual communication leave a comment aaamazing nature photographs october 2 2008 monado image by igor siwanowicz ok these are pictures mostly of insects that have been posed and perhaps coloured i don t know if there are any red or green pillbugs but they sure are beautiful many of them are extreme closeups photos by igor siwanowicz the page has at least 60 large images on it so try it only on a fast connection share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in art nature visual communication tags art arthropods insects nature reptiles visual communication 1 comment earth as art september 24 2008 monado an alluvial fan in china our earth as art is a nasa web site with images of the earth from satellite heights many of them are both intriguing and beautiful each has a brief explanation of where and what it is clicking on the images takes you to a high resolution version they can be used as large postcards and they are in the public domain share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in science tags art science space visual communication leave a comment lolcreashun on flickr september 6 2008 monado i ve been linking some of my photos on flickr to the places they were taken when i came to my lolcreashun images it occurred to me that i could link them to ken ham s religiouis amusement park so i looked up the christian creation museum it s at 2800 bullittsburg church road petersburg ky and i linked a few pictures to it with added commentary i think you can look at them if you go here the creation museum map share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in communication humor religion technology web tags humor maps pseudoscience software technology visual communication web leave a comment like something turned on a lathe august 24 2008 monado i got my new eskeptic magazine with a feature article by mark perakh it bears a strong resemblance to my earlier blog article who s zoomin who one point that mark fails to make is that the candelabrum like image of a flagellum 3rd image is not just superimposed images it s more than 100 images that are superimposed and then rotationally averaged it can t help but look like something turned on a lathe thus the impression of artificiality was added by humans doing image processing flagella myths by mark perakh figure 1 an artist s rendition of a flagellum as it appears on william dembski s blog uncommon descent a similar image appears on the dust cover of dembski s book no free lunch in 1996 a professor of biochemistry at lehigh university named michael behe published darwin s black box 1 in which he presented his concept of irreducible complexity ic behe and his intelligent design id colleagues claim that ic is strong evidence of design of biological systems and ever since his book ic has acquired the status of one of the main pillars of the intelligent design platform the concept of irreducible complexity was in fact known for many years before behe s book the nobel prize winning biologist hermann j müller had already discussed it under the slightly different name of interlocking complexity in 1918 2 some 10 years before behe s book the same idea was explored by a graham cairns smith 3 unlike behe however these pioneers did not claim that the concept in question was a great discovery on a par with those by newton and einstein lavoisier and schroedinger pasteur and darwin as behe asserted in darwin s black box neither did they claim that irreducible complexity was a marker of a supernatural design to the contrary according to müller development of interlocking complexity in biological systems is to be expected from darwinian evolution therefore the concept in question as such evoked no resistance from mainstream science as an example of an allegedly irreducibly complex system behe suggested a mousetrap soon afterwards in multiple publications by various intelligent design advocates images of a mousetrap were endlessly reproduced the mousetrap however was not accepted by the mainstream scientific community as a genuine example of ic for example professor of biology john mcdonald suggested 4 an animated illustration of how starting with just a piece of a hook shaped wire serving as a primitive mice catching device a full fledged mousetrap can be gradually built up via two part then three part etc contraptions improving its mice catching ability at each step in a darwinian fashion apparently finally realizing that a mousetrap was not a very successful choice for illustrating behe s ic concept id advocates switched to another example a bacterial flagellum a device used by bacteria for motility 5 by 2002 the image of a flagellum had become a ubiquitous accompaniment to id advocates books papers lecture slides etc according to one of the main advocates of id william dembski the flagellum had become the mascot of id the image of the flagellum appeared on the cover of dembski s book no free lunch 6 on creationist blogs etc figure 1 above article title shows an image of a flagellum as it appears on dembski s blog named uncommon descent notice the smooth surface of the depicted contraption its perfect symmetry its tightly fitting components features we usually see in man made machinery this image is a product of an artist s imagination of how a flagellum must look does this image truthfully represent the real flagellum no figure 2 a schematic model of a flagellum from yonekura k s maki d g morgan d j derosier f vonderviszt k imada and k namba 2000 the bacterial flagellar cap as the rotary promoter of flagellin self assembly science 290 2148 2152 flagella are tiny organelles that can t be seen directly by the unaided human eye their dimensions are measured in nanometers billionths of a meter modern versions of cryogenic electron microscopy and of x ray techniques have though enabled scientists to form a pretty good understanding of flagellum s structure and shape figure 2 shows a schematic model of a flagellum s structure 7 this model one of several published in scientific literature is a theoretical interpretation of the data obtained via electron microscopy and mainstream scientists construe it more as an idealized schematic than a true to life representation of a flagellum s actual structure id advocates however happily treat such images as if they are real replicas of the tiny flagella usually providing no disclaimers as to the degree of idealization inherent in such images figure 3 a composite electron micrograph of flagella it has been obtained by a superposition of multiple photographs shot from various angles of a number of flagella from francis n r sosinsky g e thomas d and derosier d j 1994 isolation characterization and structure of bacterial flagellar motors containing the switch complex j mol biol 235 4 1261 1270 in 2004 when dembski debated professor niall shanks at ucla he displayed 8 a different image of a flagellum figure 3 unlike figures 1 and 2 figure 3 is neither an artist s rendition nor a schematic theoretical model it is a real electron microscopic photographically obtained image while produced by scientists such images are often exploited by id advocates who are fond of pointing out their striking similarity to man made machines however such illustrations are misleading picturing the flagellum in a geometrically perfect shape fully symmetric and consisting of geometrically perfectly formed parts the real flagellum is far from having such a perfect geometric shape unlike machines which may be close replicas of each other say all jeeps of the same year have almost exactly the same shape the real flagella first have shapes with many deviations from a perfect geometric symmetry and second there are no two flagella exactly identical individual flagella differ in various respects just as biological organisms vary from individual to individual likewise when i debated behe on february 15 2008 on a larry kane s tv show on the comcast network behe supported his pro id thesis by displaying the same images of a flagellum as shown in figures 1 2 and 3 behe s argument essentially boiled down to the stale asseveration that can be succinctly summarized as follows you see it looks like a man made machine if it looks like a duck then it must be a duck all machines we are familiar with have been designed therefore the flagellum must be a product of intelligent design oddly behe and his id friends seem not to realize that the it must be a duck argument is an obvious non sequitur there are numerous examples of objects whose appearance is deceptive just think of the mimicry so common in nature for example look up the article on mimicry in wikipedia where examples are presented of animals looking like twigs bark leaves or flowers etc thus negating the it must be a duck conclusion figure 4 the structure of the hook a part of a flagellum from samatey f a matsunami h imada k nagashima s shaikh t r thomas d r chen j z derosier d j kitao a namba k structure of the bacterial flagellar hook and implication for the molecular universal joint mechanism nature 2004 oct 28 431 7012 1047 in the online version the image is animated illustrating the flagellar hook s rotation see this webpage reproduced in accordance with the blanket permission granted in the referenced website stipulating that a reference to the above article as well as to proteinexplorer org is provided in fact the images that behe dembski and their id colleagues show are often not pictures of real flagella some of them are just products of an artist s imagination figure 1 others are computer generated images of imaginary machine like contraptions the schematics like that in figure 2 while reflecting many actual features of flagella are products of a modeling approximation which likewise can t pretend to reflect adequately the actual structure of a tiny organelle however some other pictures of flagella may indeed be real photographically obtained images figure 3 are the images in the latter category adequate representations of the flagella structure look again at figure 3 it is at a glance impressive indeed we see here a contraption which is symmetric its structure machine like so it is easy to understand the satisfaction of dembski and behe at the sight of this contraption so neatly fitting in with their design hypothesis there are however two important details that must be noted the first detail is that the image in figure 3 is a composite photo it is the result of a superposition of many photos of several flagella made from various angles this way the image in question is eliminating from view various imperfections which unlike in man made machinery are inherent in every natural flagellum moreover the procedure of superposition of a number of photos eliminates from view the inevitable individual differences between various flagella which radically distinguish flagella from designed machinery the second detail is that the resolution of this picture is insufficient to see the flagellum s intrinsic structure to appreciate the significance of this recall by analogy the face on mars or lowell s nonexisting martian canals when the resolution is insufficient we see nonexisting structures which on closer inspection look dissolve into natural patterns this is equally true for the images of very small objects perused under insufficient magnification and or resolution the images of flagella obtained at higher resolution and assisted by other 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