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- From: archive@talkorigins.org
- Newsgroups: talk.origins,talk.answers,news.answers
- Subject: [FAQs]: The talk.origins FAQ archive (2 of 2)
- Followup-To: talk.origins
- Date: 30 Jun 2001 12:01:11 -0700
- Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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- Summary: This FAQ describes the Talk.Origins Archive, which is a
- repository of FAQs for the talk.origins newsgroup. It should be
- read by anyone who posts to talk.origins.
- Keywords: talk.origins FAQ archive
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu talk.origins:814575 talk.answers:5336 news.answers:210375
-
- Archive-name: talk-origins/archive/part2
- Posting-Frequency: every 2 weeks
- URL: http://www.talkorigins.org/
-
- [The talk.origins FAQ Archive Announcement, Part 2 of 2]
-
- TWO WAYS TO GET FAQS
-
- In order to serve people who have direct access to the Internet as
- well as those who don't, the talk.origins FAQ archive has been
- established with two access schemes. One is world wide web, and
- the other is one is anonymous ftp.
-
-
- USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB TO ACCESS FAQS
-
- The World Wide Web is the preferred method for accessing the archive.
- The WWW Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the talk.origins FAQ
- archive is:
-
- http://www.talkorigins.org/
-
- The web version of the archive is updated frequently and contains
- numerous features, including links to other creation/evolution web
- pages, archives of user feedback, selected posts from talk.origins,
- and a powerful search engine.
-
-
- USING ANONYMOUS FTP TO ACCESS FAQS
-
- FTP may be used to access the FAQs. Please note, however, that the
- FAQs stored in the ftp archive are no longer being regularly updated.
- You should attempt to use the World Wide Web version of the archive if at
- all possible.
-
- The ftp address is:
-
- Network Address: ftp.ics.uci.edu
- Directory: /pub/origins
-
- When logging in, use the name "anonymous" as your identification and
- your email address as your password. A file named FILELIST resides in
- /pub/origins and contains a one-line description of each file along
- with its author.
-
-
- POST OF THE MONTH
-
- Each month a talk.origins post is selected as the talk.origins
- archive's "Post of the Month". Please feel free to nominate a post as
- "Post of the Month" by emailing it to potm@talkorigins.org.
-
-
- REQUEST FOR FAQS (RFF)
-
- While talk.origins already has a slew of FAQs, there are several
- issues that come up regularly or semi-regularly on the newsgroup that
- aren't adequately addressed by the existing set of FAQs at the
- talk.origins archive. So, the archive now maintains a "Request For
- FAQs (RFF)" list, which describes potential topics for future FAQs.
- People wishing to write FAQs may check the RFF list below, see if
- their knowledge or expertise matches one of the FAQ openings, and, if
- so, start pounding away at the keyboard.
-
- General FAQs:
- Cosmology: origin of the universe
- Anthropic principle (*)
- Stratigraphic succession
- Plate tectonics (*)
- Sociobiology
- Linguistic evolution (*)
- RNA World
- Cambrian explosion
- Major and minor extinctions
- Taphonomy
- Comparative Anatomy
- Biogeography
- Developmental biology
- Molecular phylogeny
- Practical applications of evolutionary theory
-
- Creationism-related:
- Hydrological sorting
- Day-age interpretations of Genesis
- Supernova remnants
- Neutrino deficit
- Paucity of beneficial mutations (*)
- Flat-earthism, geocentricity, and creationism
- The Darwin deathbed recantation myth
- Vestigial structures and atavisms
- Radiocarbon dating
- Inversions of strata order, overthrusts
- Living fossils
- Evolution of the woodpecker
- Evolution of feathers
- The moon receding from the earth
- Use of quotes by scientists to incorrectly suggest
- that they reject evolution
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: disproved
- Varieties of creationism
-
- C/E legal decisions:
- Scopes Trial (*)
-
- Misc. creationism issues:
- Creationist demographics
- Creationist political/school-board activity
- Other anti-evolutionary movements
-
- Book reviews:
- Dean Kenyon's Of Pandas and People
- Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial
- Hugh Ross's The Creator and the Cosmos
-
- A star (*) means someone has already expressed interest in writing a
- FAQ on that topic.
-
-
- SUBMITTING FAQS TO THE ARCHIVE
-
- Before submitting a prospective FAQ to the talk.origins archive, ask
- yourself the following questions:
-
- 1. Does my submission discuss an issue that appears frequently (or
- periodically) in talk.origins?
- 2. Does my submission cover a topic not already dealt with by
- another FAQ in the archive?
- 3. Is my submission concisely written in language that an educated
- layperson can understand?
- 4. Does my submission provide the background information necessary
- to understand its reason for being a FAQ?
- 5. If my submission is technical in nature, does it provide
- references to other detailed works on the subject?
-
- If the answer to these questions is yes, then post your submission to
- talk.origins requesting comments and criticism. Talk.origins readers
- make up the informal FAQ review committee, and many of them will be
- happy to provide you with constructive input. Next, revise your
- submission based on the talk.origins readers' comments. Repeat this
- process until there is general agreement that a satisfactory final
- result has been achieved. Submit the final revision of your FAQ to
- submissions@talkorigins.org.
-
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- This archive has been growing in size for the past several years.
- Certain people have been particularly helpful (knowingly or not) in
- contributing material to the archive, and they deserve many thanks.
- They are (in alphabetical order): John Brawley, Matt Brinkman, Chris
- Colby, Michael Cranford, Rob Day, Wesley Elsberry, Jim Foley, William
- Jefferys, Peter Lamb, James Lippard, Andrew MacRae, James Meritt,
- Larry Moran, Mickey Rowe, Tero Sand, and Chris Stassen. Thanks to
- David Wolff for suggesting and contributing to the Q&A list in part
- one of this announcement. Thanks to Jim Foley, Mark Isaak, Dave
- Krupp, Andrew MacRae, Chris Nedin and Rich Trott for reviewing the Q&A
- list. I would also like to thank the people who took the time to read
- many of the FAQs and synopsize them for the WWW version of the
- archive. They are: James Acker, Dan Ashlock, Seth Bradley, Rob
- Derrick, Alan Feuerbacher, Mark Isaak, Tero Sand, Chris Stassen, Rich
- Trott, and Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub.
-
- The people most deserving of thanks are those whose articles appear in
- the archive. Without them, this service would have been impossible.
-
- [End of announcement]
-