Sorry, didnt get to write as much as I planned today... I found two more starved puppies this morning... yeah you know how I deal with that...
hehehe I think it will be okay-- I spent the afternoon sobbing to shelters, and I think I found their veterinarians :) Lesson of the day: put tags on your puppies!! Even if its just your vets Rabies shot tag, even if theyre just playing in the back yard. Jesus the Great Dane puppy I found must have cost a fortune. *sigh*
Though I have had time to play on the internet a bit, searching for Creationist Claims about ERVs, and I think I found yet another reason why Creationists dont publish their own research papers (outside of not, you know, doing any research in the first place):
AbstractEven though Im in a bad mood because of the starved pups, and Im no expert on scientific writing myself, I literally laughed out loud hard when I read that abstract. For a while. Arnie jumped off the bed because my laughing was shaking it and nausing him out.
A review of the structure, function, and role of viruses in ecology is presented. It is concluded that viruses are non-living entities, similar to seeds and spores whose functions include carrying genes from one plant or animal to another. Viruses are a part of a system that helps to produce the variety that is critical for life and, importantly, they carry resistance to disease from one organism to another. Most viruses live in their host without causing problems. Pathogenesis is evidence of something gone wrong, a mutation or the accidental movement of genes, and not evidence of a system deliberately designed to cause human disease and suffering.
If a middle school student at a science camp turned in that abstract I would be pretty proud of them. But that was written by an adult-- supposedly with scientific training.
"It is concluded..."