I'm Published!
Jun. 30th, 2005 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOne of the forums in I regularly participate is talk.origins, mostly because I want to monitor the progress of creationists in my home state of Washington. Blissfully, they're not making much progress. But since it's a debate forum, I've tossed in my two cents' worth once in a while.
My two cents have been collected as a contribution to The Counter-Creationism Handbook. I gave the editor permission to use something I'd written a few years ago to respond to the question, "Doesn't natural selection mean there would be no homosexuals, since homosexuals don't pass their genes on to the next generation?" I pointed out that there are many other conditions that persist despite their apparent impedence to reproduction, and that homosexual exclusivity, if genetic in origin, was statistically insignificant compared to those other conditions.
It's an expensive book, about $65.00 all told, and I don't see a penny of that; most of the contributors don't, and that's commonplace in a FAQ assemblage like this. So don't run out an buy it unless you feel you need a book like this on your shelves. (I do, and it goes right next to my collection of Scientists Confront Creationism, a much more scholarly example of the genre.) But it's nice to see my name in print. "Professor Sternberg" indeed.
My two cents have been collected as a contribution to The Counter-Creationism Handbook. I gave the editor permission to use something I'd written a few years ago to respond to the question, "Doesn't natural selection mean there would be no homosexuals, since homosexuals don't pass their genes on to the next generation?" I pointed out that there are many other conditions that persist despite their apparent impedence to reproduction, and that homosexual exclusivity, if genetic in origin, was statistically insignificant compared to those other conditions.
It's an expensive book, about $65.00 all told, and I don't see a penny of that; most of the contributors don't, and that's commonplace in a FAQ assemblage like this. So don't run out an buy it unless you feel you need a book like this on your shelves. (I do, and it goes right next to my collection of Scientists Confront Creationism, a much more scholarly example of the genre.) But it's nice to see my name in print. "Professor Sternberg" indeed.
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Date: 2005-06-30 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-30 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-01 06:10 pm (UTC)2. Sterility is not lethal.
3. Results obtained by modeling the system as a single gene are often misleading.
In fairness, you probably know what you're talking about, except that you accidentally overstated your position.
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Date: 2005-07-01 06:19 pm (UTC)You're correct in all three items, although the 3rd is more of an opinion about the fallacy of the initial conjecture.
Nice icon, by the way. Seen the Jabberwocky?
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Date: 2005-06-30 07:07 pm (UTC)