https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4906 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:44:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4906 Oops. I should have been more clear. By the f-word, I meant faith. In my classroom, I am very careful not to say, “I don’t have faith in that explanation.” As soon as I say faith, students’ minds turn to religion. They think about their own faith, and they stop thinking scientifically. Or at least that’s what I’m afraid they’ll start doing. Even worse, they may raise the point that I used the word faith in my discussion of a topic, so why can’t they discuss faith when it comes to evolution?So that’s why I am hypersensitive to the word. I know what Greg meant, but felt compelled to share my concerns about using that word. Perhaps it would be better to say, “I do not have a lot of confidence in the…”

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4905 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:14:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4905 First off, I really liked that paper. I read it a few days ago, and really found it interesting. It is unfortunate that the archaeology is underwater, but there is still hope. Also, to Serena, I do not see why you are against the word “fundamentally”. The usage here by no means connects it to religion, it means that it is the basic or base issue. Or, in this case, different DNA mutation rates will change the base meaning of an interpretation.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4904 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:49:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4904 Oooh, you used the f-word in relation to mutation rates. (I’m hypersensitive about word-choice when it links religion to science…)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4903 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:26:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4903 Aheuah,Thank you for the minirant, no need to apologize. The encoding on this blog is screwy. I understand that this is on the list of things to upgrade/fix/whatever, but I will pass your comment on to the big chief.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4902 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:24:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4902 Yes, what I am about to write it off-topic. But it has become a pet peeve of mine with ScienceBlogs.At the top of your meta tags, this posting is proclaimed to be ISO-8859-1. Yet, the stuff you quoted is clearly Unicode (since, I have to manually switch to Unicode to get the “approximately” characters to display properly).How about deciding on a standard and sticking to it?Thanks, and sorry for the mini-rant.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4901 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:59:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4901 I LOVE that magazine. But children should never be allowed to see it.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4900 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:56:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4900 Okay, found ’em.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4899 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:39:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4899 Ellery: Time to pull out the ol’ diving bell blueprints.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4898 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:31:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/06/colonization-of-the-new-world/#comment-4898 Their research offers an interesting possibility, but it is certainly difficult to prove or disprove their hypothesis when most of the archaeological evidence sits under 50 meters of arctic water.

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