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Posting-Frequency: every 2 weeks URL: http://www.talkorigins.org/ See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge [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] User Contributions:Part1 - Part2 [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: archive@talkorigins.org
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