Recent content by Ado

This is what makes test cricket so wonderful! Taking off my Aussie blinkers, you have to say England had the better of it for 4 days, or at least most of those days. But turn off for a day, think yourself safe and WHAMMO!! As badly as the Poms went today, the key moment of the test for me was...

Hi there, Can a couple of people from North America tell me what sporting goods companies are the best to go for to purchase football gear (American/Canadian Football - gridiron). I'm talking full kit here - helmets, shoulder pads, lower pads, as well as numbered tops and pants. It needs to...

I think if I needed someone to bat for my life, I'd choose McGrath - at least I'd die laughing!! :) Seriously, I agree, in a tight spot and even during a run of poor form, you would take Steve over just about any batsman currently playing I think.

Almost certainly will be Ponting. Steve needs just over 500 runs to catch AB's total in the 4 tests - could be a very memorable Sydney test if he can do it there.

Here's a good site to get some more info: http://www.talkorigins.org/

Make sure you have EP5 loaded - if you are running it straight out of the box you will have a poorer game. I find it great - yeah there were a couple of issues leading to the need for patches, but now I think it's turned the corner. Some people on the boards still find some bugs, especially...

WillJ, I'm having trouble with your humans around for 2 million years... what exactly are you defining "human" as?

Reds - I'm pretty sure there are no animals on a bear-to-whale evolutionary path which is what that particular post was about. I think maybe you've gotten some wires crossed! Another good read is The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins. He explains in more common language the processes of...

http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/ Go to Chapter 6 and do a search for "whale", you should end up with the right passage. Nor do I believe it would actually happen, and nor I imagine did Darwin in truth, however the process involved of selection is more...

Bobgote, I think I see where you and I are differing. It comes down to the definition of a species. You say that rattlesnakes and taipans are the same "snake" species but they are different species, but would be grouped together probably in a "family" or "order", don't have a biology book handy...

(Fanks, spellink whas neva a specaltie) :) Exactly my point though, evolution will not now give you a snake-like creature genetically identical (or close enough to qualify what I think you mean) to a current snake. The only way to do this would be to begin with the ancient origin for snakes...

Bobgote - maybe we should just meet up for a coffee and go over this! Macro-evolution is the extension of the micro-evolution you already accept. A particular species of lizard won't evolve into snakes, however a small population of these lizards may get separated so they cannot interbreed...

Barlow & Chambers were idiots dealing drugs through a country not shy about telling everyone that it's a death penalty upon conviction. I lived 2 years in Malaysia and you have to be pretty stupid to not understand what you're risking. I think anyone breaking laws overseas should be dealt with...

But that's just the point - we arn't trying to hide from top quality teams we want to play them more often. What the current situation gives us is a pretty ordinary qualifying tournament, a tougher final (but on current form and with the best possible side, Australia would be favoured over New...

Kind of on topic, sorta... There is talk of here at the moment of making school contact hours match normal working hours (until 5pm I think) to help single-parent and double-income families. The normal amount of "learning" hours will apply, but then from 3pm-ish there would be various...