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I died yesterday, but Im back now. (total disappointment, btw) SecularAs... - 1,227 views - 4 months ago
Response to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =rvyKDEi-Kxo

(Muslim Destory's [sic] Atheism - Atheists's [sic] Pnishment [sic])
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Annotations: Youtube's latest feature (edit videos) SecularAs... - 1,408 views - 1 year ago
I may make another video on this subject...
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Astronomy Test #2: Planets of the Solar System SecularAs... - 429 views - 1 year ago
Download the test:

Word document:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2 007/4/16/989591/astro_test_2.d oc

Notepad document:
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Siciliano by Sebastian Bach
Preformed by the Loie Flood Duo on March 5, 2008
[I recorded the performance with my MP3 player, so please excuse any quality issues.]
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Venomfangx Response DonExodus2 - 31,486 views - 1 year ago
I make VenomFangX my new little pony.

Of course he wouldn't allow this video response to be posted on his original video: primitive minds still believe censorship is a valid form of argument.
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Evidence of Common Ancestry: ERVs BonoboBill - 14,755 views - 1 year ago
This video assumes the viewer has a basic understanding of biology.

Works Cited:

Bonner, T I. "Cloned Endogenous Retroviral Sequences From Human DNA." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 79 (1982): 4709-4713. 19 Oct. 2007

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.g ov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pub med&pubmedid=6181510

Crick, Francis. "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology." Nature 227 (1970): 561-563. 18 Oct. 2007

http://www.nature.com/nature/f ocus/crick/pdf/crick227.pdf

Dangel, A W. "Complement Component C4 Gene Intron 9 as a Phylogenetic Marker for Primates: Long Terminal Repeats of the Endogenous Retrovirus ERV-K(C4) are a Molecular Clock of Evolution." Immunogenetics 42 (1995): 41-52. 19 Oct. 2007

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/si tes/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=Pub Med&list_uids=7797267&dopt=Abs tractPlus

Kjellman, C., H. O. Sjogren, et al. (1999) "HERV-F, a new group of human endogenous retrovirus sequences." Journal of General Virology 80: 2383.

http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi /content/full/80/9/2383

Lebedev, Y. B., Belonovitch, O. S., Zybrova, N. V, Khil, P. P., Kurdyukov, S. G., Vinogradova, T. V., Hunsmann, G., and Sverdlov, E. D. (2000) "Differences in HERV-K LTR insertions in orthologous loci of humans and great apes." Gene 247: 265-277.

Mitchell, Rick S. "Retroviral DNA Integration: ASLV, HIV, and MLV Show Distinct Target Site Preferences." PLoS Biology 2 (2004): 1127-1137. 18 Oct. 2007

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.g ov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pub med&pubmedid=15314653

Sverdlov, Eugene D. "Retroviruses and Primate Evolution." BioEssays 22 (2000): 161-171. 18 Oct. 2007

http://www3.interscience.wiley .com/cgi-bin/abstract/69502244 /ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Svensson, A. C., N. Setterblad, et al. (1995) "Primate DRB genes from the DR3 and DR8 haplotypes contain ERV9 LTR elements at identical positions." Immunogenetics 41: 74.

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Correction: At 3:39, I meant to say "humans possess 23 chromosomal pairs." Humans possess 46 chromosomes; 23 pairs.
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Evidence of Common Ancestry: Human Chromosome 2 BonoboBill - 19,208 views - 1 year ago
Opening DNA wrapping sequence provided by The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

http://www.wehi.edu.au/educati on/wehi-tv/dna/wrapping.html

Donations: http://www.wehi.edu.au/WEHI_Gr oups/indexworkgroups.php?id=10 4

Works Cited:

Hillier, Ladeana W. "Generation and Annotation of the DNA Sequences of Human Chromosomes 2 and 4." Nature 434 (2005): 724-731. 28 Oct. 2007

http://www.nature.com/nature/j ournal/v434/n7034/pdf/nature03 466.pdf

Ijdo, J. W. "Origin of Human Chromosome 2: an Ancestral." Genetics 88 (1991): 9051-9055.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprin t/88/20/9051.pdf

Spencer, Geoff. "Scientists Analyze Chromosomes 2 and 4." National Institutes of Health. 6 Apr. 2005. National Human Genome Research Institute. 28 Oct. 2007

http://www.genome.gov/13514624

Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Gs1zeWWIm5M

This video assumes the viewer has a basic understanding of biology, as well as a basic understanding of the structure of chromosomes.
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Irrefutable Proof of Evolution- Part 1 (mtDNA, ERVs, Fusion) DonExodus2 - 70,665 views - 1 year ago
EXPAND ME Irrefutable proof of evolution, along with their 'rebuttals'. ERV human chromosome 2 neanderthal mtDNA DNA summation.

Yes, Im using the term proof. If this raises your eyebrows, you probably already accept evolution anyways, so Im keeping it :P

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Proof of Evolution - Part 2 (Summation) DonExodus2 - 42,279 views - 1 year ago
Second part in the series- strongest piece of evidence for evolution.

This image will greatly aid in your understanding of exactly what is being said in this video: http://img227.imageshack.us/my .php?image=phylogenictreetf8.j pg

Actually, I will add this response to the description of my video, so people can be clear on the terminology, and that they are NOT used for respiration.

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Proof of Evolution - Part 3 (Atavisms and Fossils) DonExodus2 - 14,843 views - 1 year ago
Censorship: Please contact youtube with me and ask them to remove the flag on this video.
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I give evidence for evolution in regards to the fossil record and atavisms.
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Transitional Fossils I - NEW DonExodus2 - 17,484 views - 1 year ago
Redid the original video, I think you'll like this one a lot better.
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Transitional Fossils II DonExodus2 - 13,164 views - 1 year ago
Fantastic list of vertebrate fossils, beginning with primitive reptiles and ending with modern birds, mammals, and whales. Archaeopteryx, ambulocetans, therapsids, etc are all covered.

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Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker cdk007 - 278,760 views - 2 years ago
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In this video I deconstruct the broken watch straw man argument used by creationist / ID supporters to attack evolution. I had to pack a ton of information into this video so you WILL need to pause it periodically.

The basic premise of the argument is that a bunch of parts will never randomly assemble into the correct arrangement to form a properly functioning complex. Once again, creationists / ID supporters miss the basic concept of evolution entirely. No biologists believes, nor is there any evidence that complex systems form spontaneously in one fell swoop. That would be creation. Systems evolve through many intermediates, one step at a time, slowly building up the complexity.

Here I deconstruct their straw man argument. Basically, I simulate clocks as living organisms. Selective pressure is focused on their ability to accurately tell time. NO goal is imposed on the design (you can tell this because every simulation ends with a differently constructed clock). And it works. Clocks evolve through a series of transitional forms: Pendulum, Proto-clock, 1-handed Clock, 2-handed Clock, 3-handed Clock, and 4-handed Clock. Gradually the complexity is built up.

These labels I have assigned to the transitional forms have nothing to do with the simulation itself. They are names I assigned so that we could analyze what the population was doing. The clocks are just clocks, living in their world, trying to tell time as accurately as possible.

One thing I wanted to address but didn't have time in the video is how rapid the transitional period can be. In some simulations the population goes from pendulums to 3-handed Clocks in a hundred or so generations. And the transitions between the transitional forms are even more rapid, happening in about ten generations. Chances are none or a very limited representation of that transition will be preserved in the fossil record.

One thing I should add. The program does not draw the clocks. It maintains, mates, and simulates them, but the drawing must be done manually from the genome matrix.

The program is written in MatLab.

The hand rotations that begin with 86 are 86,000 not 86.000. When YouTube compressed the video it becam hard to tell a comma from a period.

To download this video go to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9e1z z000mq7

To download the program go to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1umd tnwayyp
Alternate link to download Clock Evolution Program:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yygr 5xhmzdm

If you wish to translate this video you can download the PowerPoint file from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?z33m ymkjmzn

Learn the facts, spread the truth, and most importantly, Think About It.
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Why Intelligent Design is WRONG, Part I cdk007 - 138,240 views - 3 years ago
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This video is NOT meant to be an accurate representation of evolution, as evolution does not have a predetermined goal (though there is the goal to reproduce). This video is meant to test one simple point, that

RANDOM MUTATION +
NON-RANDOM SELECTION =
VERY IMPROBABLE RESULT.

For further discussion on the use of a "goal" see below. For simulations that represent evolution more accurately see my later videos.

In this video I show why the central tenet of Intelligent Design or ID is wrong. They argue they can tell when an object is "designed", meaning it could not have arisen by chance, but their logic is fatally flawed. Here I will actually simulate evolution showing how impossibly improbable outcomes can appear quite easily, without anything being designed.

For those who fail to find solace in the fact that I have used a "goal" image in this video I will 1) offer a quaint explanation for how this DOES NOT impose design and 2) direct you to Part II of this video.

See, imagine there is an ecosystem where two species live in a symbiotic relationship. Species A offers food to species B for protection. The way species A recognizes species B is because B looks like SouthPark characters.

Now species C happens to also live in this environment but looks nothing like SouthPark characters. They resemble random noise. They go about collecting their food on their own. Evolution by natural selection and common sense tells us that any member of species C that has an advantage in collecting food will be better off (more energy and time for reproduction). Thus that advantage will be passed on.

Therefore, random mutations in species C's population that make members very slightly resemble SouthPark characters will be passed on because those organisms might be able to trick a member of species A every now and then more so than those that are just random noise. As mutations build up in the population of species C, they begin to resemble SouthPark characters more and more, thus tricking species A more and more getting free food and increasing their fitness.

Mimicry like this happens all the time in nature. The evolution of species C is not designed or directed. It just happens that those that resemble species B more (thus looking like a SouthPark character) will have a higher fitness. It is a product of their environment. They will pass on those mutations and the population will evolve.

To download this video go to:
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If you wish to translate this video you can download the PowerPoint file from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?azkw jyvl5yj

Learn the facts, spread the truth, and most importantly, Think About It.
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Why Intelligent Design is WRONG, Part II cdk007 - 55,498 views - 2 years ago
Make sure you watch "Why Intelligent Design is WRONG" before watching this video. Here I simulate evolution without the use of a goal image as in Part I.

This time fitness is determined based on a two part mathematical function. It is analogous to an animal's behavior evolving to balance its need to find food and find mates (really can't do both at the same time, well, not effectively) or a seal's flipper evolving to be both good on land and in the sea. Here the function pulls the organisms in two directions.

The combination of random mutations with survival of the fittest drives the population to an extremely improbable solution, but one with very good fitness. And this is what I am trying to show, that random mutations and recombination combined with survival of the fittest will weed out the best organisms (those that seem perfectly designed for their environment) leading to extremely complex and highly improbable outcomes in only a few generations.

This video does not attempt to prove ID wrong or Evolution correct. It merely attempts to point out that the central claim of ID is wrong.

To download this video go to:
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If you wish to translate this video you can download the PowerPoint file from:
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Learn the facts, spread the truth, and most importantly, Think About It.
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