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201. Transcending Jerry Falwell

Comment #44862 by Nails on May 25, 2007 at 12:14 pm

3. Comment #44716 by devolved on May 25, 2007 at 8:10 am

konquererz claims, "they believe in a book that is full of obvious errors while saying its perfect"

Easy to say! Where's the proof?



Let's start with Genesis - methusela was how old?

Noah's ark

shall I continue?

202. Transcending Jerry Falwell

Comment #44860 by Nails on May 25, 2007 at 12:10 pm

Funny that, I'm still waiting for an answer from bizarro or devolved on my evolution of haemoglobin post.......
But the answer isn't in scripture so they have become deaf dumb and blind to it I guess.
Just shows what a real education in science can do to a man.....

203. Christian sports workers degree ridiculed

Comment #44846 by Nails on May 25, 2007 at 11:53 am

Who really cares about the history of sport and the church?
most of us are more bothered about the history of the church and war, child abuse, inquisition and other such matters it is yet to get right.

204. Species extinction

Comment #44565 by Nails on May 25, 2007 at 4:42 am

very sad news.
Lets hope we can save the species outside of captivity.

205. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #44024 by Nails on May 23, 2007 at 7:41 am

Come on guys, show me your arguments.
you asked (well, bizarro did) how evolution produces new information.
I've given you an answer - a gene duplicates and modifies into new genes which natural s3election can then act upon. Myoglobin is a relative of haemoglobin and that is the mechanism you have searched for all your life.
The answer is clear and simple.
Evolution is just like a magic trick, unless you look carefully you can easily be fooled into thinking that the laws of physics have been violated. But they havn't. It is no less wonderous than a miracle creation, but it is closer to a fact than you will find in your pathetic little book.
Now it is your turn.
Prove me wrong without using the words 'god did it' or 'the bible says so'.
Yet I know that you can't.

206. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #43719 by Nails on May 22, 2007 at 10:57 am

OK beleivers, instead of playing silly word games, heads up.
I gave you a massive chance to rip me apart and you bew it.
Haemoglobin is the answer you are looking for.
It has been duplicated and modified by mutation and evolved into alpha, beta, epsilon and zeta chains.
Read it and weep losers.

207. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #42771 by Nails on May 19, 2007 at 1:20 pm

Bizarro Dawkins:

Ok, but just like in the case of penicillin resistant bacteria, you have a degenerative mutation that just so happens to be conducive to survival in that environment. If you take a closer look however, you will find that the mutation that results in penicillin resistant bacteria actually destroys a gene coding for a regulating enzyme that limits the amount of pennicilinase produced by the bacterium. Therefore, the mutation actually destroyed genetic information, although it happened to benefit the organism in that environment. Sickle-cell anemia works on the exact same concept.
Looks like we have a dilema here. Look again at sickle-cell anaemia, I have given an example of how a single point mutation can increase genetic information by producing a protein with more than one function.
If I gave you an example of a 'new' gene that sprang out of no-where, it would surely support a creationist viewpoint. By dismissing the single point mutations you are ignoring the simplicity of evolution. It is by these single changes that genetic diversity occurs which is the basis of natural selection.
Humans have duplications of many genes, blood grouping antigens for example - but these are non-functional due to deleterious mutation. One could argue that this duplication, and therefore increasing of genetic information (functional or not) has selection benefits. Strings of non-functional DNA can 'hide' genetic attack by virus, mutagen etc. as the genes will never be sequenced.

Just bear in mind, that for a beleiver no proof is neccesary, and for a skeptic no proof is ever enough. i think that no matter what proof I present you will dismiss it.
Evolution has had around 3 billion years to work its magic, I would be very suprised if we will see any massive leaps in a single generation.

208. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #42286 by Nails on May 18, 2007 at 3:05 am

Bizarro

Hehe, that's funny. I actually just finished my cell biology final earlier today . First, natural selection can't do jack but weed out genetic information. It is not a source of increased genetic variability, but rather of decreased and more highly specialized population genomes. Keep in mind however that common descent requires an increase in genetic information, yet we observe conservative tendencies in population gene pools, and never has any scientist observed an information-adding beneficial mutation.
So you have just told us how worthless your scientific education is then.
Try and google CCR5-32.
There is also a very well known base-substitution of position 6 B-globin gene.
You may know it as sickle-cell anemia.
A single point mutation that can have huge benefits and huge disadvantages.
What about bacterial plasmids and episomes?
Shall I continue or do you get the picture now?

209. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #42283 by Nails on May 18, 2007 at 2:55 am

FAO Bizzaro:

Understand that I am not saying the man was a saint. I'm only saying that your responses to his perceived offences are shameful. He has never killed anyone in gas chambers, and claims that he discriminates against gays are exaggerated. People often confuse disagreement with discrimination. Falwell certainly disagreed with the homosexual lifestyle, but no more than he disagreed with someone actively engaged in adultery.

Again, you have appeased the man instead of outright condemning him. The fact that he practised what he preached is irrelavent (although this makes him a tiny minority of religious advocates) - if you stand on a pulpit and preach hate you incite hate.
He was a man who gained great respecatability and failed to act responsibly.
Do you have no compassion for all those people who have been verbally abused or worse because Jerry has attacked their way of life?
If hate is a sin, repenting is useless if you continue to sin.

210. The Fastest-Growing Religion

Comment #42276 by Nails on May 18, 2007 at 2:36 am

If I had to have a religion, I think Paganism would be my choice.
Naked fertility festivals on the hillside etc...
Seriously, worshipping the earth is the best form of worship we can ever exhibit

211. Manufacturing belief

Comment #42274 by Nails on May 18, 2007 at 2:33 am

Very interesting. I look forward to reading some more of Lewis Wolpert's work I think.
I'm not sure I agree with his live and let live attitude to religion, but his reasoning is sound.
I can understand how supersition can arise and, as we are habitual creatures who tend to form routines then these ideas become part of our daily lives whether they are based on fact or not.
But I am suprised that he is still superstitious when he obviously appreciates the power of scientific beliefs.

212. Freethinking Ruins All Things

Comment #42261 by Nails on May 18, 2007 at 2:09 am

Inquiry is never really free--it always has a cost, it always has limits and definitions and it always entails assumptions. To assume one thing is to exclude another; the freedom of choice, strictly speaking, is likewise not really free, because it presupposes the denial of myriad choices, the acceptance of the costs of the paths not taken, the constant constraints and finitude that limit the range of choice. The atheists and freethinkers say they want openmindedness, but their minds are plainly shut off to the fountains of wisdom of thousands of years because the wisdom contained in scriptures and hymns--from which virtually all great Western art and literature derive and to which all of it pays often unwitting tribute--is expressed in an idiom and attributed to a source that they reject out of hand because they cannot confirm in their wretched narrowness of spirit that the Author of life has spoken to men on the doubtful basis that He has never spoken to them (though it seems they would not listen to Him if He did).

The cost of the pursuit of truth s to discard what is not true or unlikely to be true.
The reason religion has survived for millenia is that it crushes opposition, often violently.
And of course, if a diety had spoken to us he would have known the dangers of ambigious comments and of allowing translation to conform to hidden agendas without preserving the original text of his ideology.

213. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #42152 by Nails on May 17, 2007 at 5:57 pm

9. Comment #42121 by Bizarro Dawkins on May 17, 2007 at 4:44 pm

In addition to this, you are now all calling a dead man the "scum" of the earth, hoping that he "burns in hell". Now, if you perceive that someone has made inappropriate comments, is it then right to wish a horrible death on that person? Do two wrongs make a right? What ever happened to golden rule, Dawkinites?

In case you missed the point, we are talking about a preacher of hate. Your line of using the golden rule to make critisism of such a person invalid is like advocating human rights for child molestors.


Granted, as I've stated before, doc said some stupid things from time to time. We all make mistakes

If the comments were a mistake then he should have learned his lesson the first time. In truth, he ignored the teachings of his own messiah and hid behind his title to condemn those people who do not conform to a pathetic, two thousand year old code of conduct. To persecute homosexuals in the modern age is not a mistake, it is down right offensive. in my eyes this guy is no better than Omar Bakri Muhammad.
And just because he was old is no excuse for bigotry; my father is of the same generation but he doesn't stand up in public and proclaim that whenever innocent people die god is punishing us for not being model christians.

I'm very disappointed. It saddens (and worries) me that such malice and hatred exists in people's hearts. If this is the face of atheism, then God forbid it ever becomes the dominant religion in America.

Have you forgotten already who was spouting the hatred?
And he was a representative of the dominant religion in America!!!
In all honesty, I respect your integrity in standing up for what you beleive in and posting on this forum but you really need to put your mind in gear before you touch a keyboard and mouse.

214. Faith-Based Fraud

Comment #42137 by Nails on May 17, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Cracking link Tyler, wish I'd seen it earlier.

215. Christopher Hitchens to God: Drop Dead

Comment #42116 by Nails on May 17, 2007 at 4:26 pm

34. Comment #42035 by Dr Benway on May 17, 2007 at 1:55 pm

That aspect of religion seems quite nice.
The poison part is faith.
When you encourage people to act according to faith, you open the door to many good works, but also to horrors. You open the door to deeds of charity in Jesus' name, and to suicide bombings in shopping malls. Faith is the most elastic justification imaginable. For that reason, it's got to go.

I entirely agree. To beleive without any evidence (apart from a human created, human edited book) is a slur on the very foundations of intelligence.
Everthing (virtually) you are taught at school you can, if you wanted, verify from another source.
Except what you learn in bible class.
When I read TGD there were many parts I couldn't accept at face value, regardless of how RD backed it up. By actually reading the texts refered to, I am now a commited non-beleiver because I have researched and come to an informed opinion.
Without this I would still be an agnostic.
My mother visits a spiritualist church (whatever the hell that is) and no matter what I say to her i can't shake her faith because she will never research for herself.
this apathy is also our enemy, the plight of the poor is no excuse for ignorance. If we want to build a better world, one without religious intollerance (or without religion preferably) then we need to let our children open their eyes and not trust everything they are told or read or see on TV. We must cross-check and make informed decisions.
Only then can we look at the stars and better ourselves because we have the intellect to reach for them, not pray to them.

216. Jerry Falwell's Hit Parade

Comment #42085 by Nails on May 17, 2007 at 3:27 pm

On Islam: "I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough of the history of his life, written by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that he was a violent man, a man of war."

I han't studied Islam, so I can only speculate on this. A violent man yes, but a terrorist?
Isn't that just pandering to the anti-Islamic feeling of recent times?

217. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41210 by Nails on May 15, 2007 at 4:13 pm

97. Comment #41206 by Jack Rawlinson on May 15, 2007 at 4:03 pm

I'm not someone who believes you shouldn't speak ill of the dead just because they're dead. No one has any problem speaking ill of Hitler or Pol Pot, do they?

In all fairness, most of us have spoken ill of him while he was still alive. The only difference is his replies might now make more sense....

218. Why Christopher Hitchens is not Great

Comment #40655 by Nails on May 14, 2007 at 4:25 pm

Why Christopher Hitchens is not Great
Irreelavant.
He doesn't need to be great.
Only right.

219. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #38533 by Nails on May 8, 2007 at 2:07 pm

Good interview, more relaxed and it looked to me as though he was, for once being interviewed by someonr who either shares his lack of beleif or is certainly leaning that way.
Anybody got ant news on the programme Dawkins mentioned near the end?
made by C4 but i havn't seen it in the UK?

220. Review of The God Delusion

Comment #38520 by Nails on May 8, 2007 at 1:33 pm

can imagine the book receiving criticism from experts in the various specialist fields that it draws on for data and arguments. For example, philosophers of religion may find the rebuttals of traditional arguments for the existence of God somewhat superficial compared, say, with the extended treatment in Graham Oppy's new book,


Funny, I never considered philosophers of religion to be an expert in any field....

221. A conversation with journalist Christopher Hitchens

Comment #38519 by Nails on May 8, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Didn't do Dan Brown any harm when plugging his book.

222. Unholy row at clergy soccer game

Comment #38096 by Nails on May 7, 2007 at 12:47 am

4. Comment #38070 by mbcraig11 on May 6, 2007 at 10:40 pm

actually I would like to say that I would love to see a game of full contact football between Team Imam and Team Priest.

I wonder what Team Imam would call the "Hail Mary" pass.

i think it was moe likely to be soccer, but a great analogy all the same.
If they had played, they would probably have argued over something else. Maybe the religion of the ref could have been a problem later on.
Playground antics, they should all be ashamed of themselves.

223. Gul drops Turkey presidential bid

Comment #38095 by Nails on May 7, 2007 at 12:40 am

It is very disturbing to read that Turkey is still being dragged back by Islamic dogma.
The country has become very much a half-way house between the West and its ancient conquerers hokey religion.
i fear they are taking a turn for the worst.
What is needed, quite clearly, is for the voice of the people to be heard. If the majority of the people truely want to move away from secularism, then the politicians should have the strength of mind to follow their wishes regardless of their own. That is what they are voted in for, isn't it?
And if the military intervenes we will have one less holiday destination in our travel agents for a while.
Not that I would ever go.

224. My response to the GOP evolution question

Comment #38013 by Nails on May 6, 2007 at 4:49 pm

20. Comment #37827 by Paradigm on May 5, 2007 at 11:01 pm

You mean the same guy who created yersinia pestis?

Yes, that be him.
Nasty little bugger, glad we havn't met.
And I guess he created Ancylostoma duodenale, Vibrio cholerae and Saccharomyces cerevisiae as well, yet he appears to disapprove of our use of the latter. Or at least the drinking of the products.

But as we humans are so perfect he not tell us about the vast array of natural remedies he created.
Not even a little sniff to ease the burden of childbirth, dear lord?
Sadist.

225. Lou Dobbs Interviews Christopher Hitchens

Comment #37876 by Nails on May 6, 2007 at 4:41 am

sorry if i'm repeating, not read all comments:

"God made us perfect, so now we're going to hack of a part of your genitals "

i'm definatley buying the book now.

226. Interview with Pierre Rehov

Comment #37746 by Nails on May 5, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Just a small point from near the end of the video - a teenage 'recruit' with all the teenage angst, worsened by living in a sexually repressive society is promised 72 virgins and wine(?) if he blows himself up and takes an infidel with him.
So, no sex before marriage or booze when alive, but all you want if you blow yourself up?
Why is it acceptable in heaven if not on earth?
71 & Gatorade, that was a good one.

227. Interview with Pierre Rehov

Comment #37745 by Nails on May 5, 2007 at 3:15 pm

i don't know enough about the koran to comment, but i do know some muslims who are genuinly nice people.
And some that arn't. One of whom gets up my nose because he takes his kids out of primary school when they are taught about christianity.i wonder if they will be removed from science lessons later inlife just in case they become 'polluted' with ideas such as evolution etc.
And from a guy who used to work in a slaughter house.
And guess which animals are killed there?

228. My response to the GOP evolution question

Comment #37741 by Nails on May 5, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Here's my take on religion, my killer for fundie arguments (you know, when you've done with teasing them and can't be bothered to hear the same answer again...)

If God made everything, and God is omnipotent/omniscient etc, then he created Penicillium notatum and knows that it makes a powerful antibiotic.
So why didn't he tell anyone?
How many people; loyal, good religious people have died because he decided to keep this to himself?
And this is your loving, caring God?

229. 'No proof Jesus heals Aids'

Comment #37730 by Nails on May 5, 2007 at 2:41 pm

I think Jesus can do anything, and I've seen the video to prove it.

Click here to watch

Love it.
Blasphemy at its greatest.

230. For Motherly X Chromosome, Gender Is Only the Beginning

Comment #37483 by Nails on May 4, 2007 at 3:25 pm

there are still many mysteries to be unfolded in our DNA, and i hope many of them can be told as well as this author has.
Elegant and simple, just enough info to educate and dutifully amusing.
I must check out more of Natalie Angier's articles in the future, I think.

231. Bonobos and chimps 'speak' with gestures

Comment #37302 by Nails on May 4, 2007 at 3:27 am

The more we look at our cousins, the closer they become.
I welcome further developments in this field, especially looking at the few genes that are unique to humans and the thousands that we share with other primates.

232. In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in the Evolution of Genitalia

Comment #36890 by Nails on May 2, 2007 at 4:34 pm

This has got to be one for the Intelligent Designers to explain. If they can quote the eye then we can retaliate with the duck's cock, metaphorically speaking.

Beautiful.
Love that.

233. Are You There, God? It's Me, Hitchens

Comment #36251 by Nails on April 30, 2007 at 4:20 pm

Interesting.
Havn't heard of Hitchings before his new book became big news, but I think I like his outlook on things. I think many people will be able to identify with him; unlike Dawkins who, genious that he is, is rather aloof. Few of us could ever be the next Richard Dawkins (I'm just not that intelligent) but the next Hitchings?
Maybe.

234. Believe in God Spray

Comment #36246 by Nails on April 30, 2007 at 3:53 pm

I bet the verses are cherry-picked as well, just a few innane mutterings to help you through your day.
Fortune Cookies for the fundies, perhaps?

235. Convention ends with Satan and immigrants

Comment #36245 by Nails on April 30, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Hey hey, and i thought i'd have to make difficult chices at the upcoming local elections.
i don't care what their religious stance is, but if they try to pass resolutions like that then i will try and have them sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

236. Atheism's Big Night In Little Rock

Comment #35717 by Nails on April 28, 2007 at 2:10 pm

I wish there was a video link for this, would have been good to see.
Would have made a nice change from seeing the American-style interviews which are bocoming quite monotonous.
Apart from the "sun goes up, sun goes down" type stupidity.

237. Scientists look to disrupt the brain chemistry of violence

Comment #35688 by Nails on April 28, 2007 at 10:22 am

To reitterate; I am not proposing the locking up of the 'genetically weak' or 'psychologically disadvantaged' on a whim, I'm suggesting whether, in time, such markers could be used help decide if those who have paid their dues to society i.e. have already commited a crime are safe to release into the community.

238. Scientists look to disrupt the brain chemistry of violence

Comment #35626 by Nails on April 28, 2007 at 2:21 am

Doctor [stepping out from behind scanning machine]: Well, Mr. Jones this concludes your annual physical.
Jones: Fit, am I?
Doctor: Well, there's just one thing.
Jones: Yes?
Doctor: Your prefrontal is showing just a slight abnormality.
Jones: Oh, my... Is it serious?
Doctor: No, not really. You'll just have to stay in hospital for the remainder.
Jones: The remainder? The remainder of what?
Doctor: Well, your natural life, of course. Just for safety's sake. Can't have you snapping some day and committing mass murder, now can we?
Jones [incredulous]
Doctor: Not to worry; the beds are clean, there are television and Internet privileges - nothing violent, though - and your family will be allowed to visit twice a week as long as you continue to exhibit good behavior.

How easy it is to misrepresent.
The point I was trying to make is that criminals who are till a threat to society should remain incarserated - especially with repect to violent and sexual offenders. In the UK we seem to have a big problem of such offenders being given minor sentances and parolled after just a couple of years - and a percentage will then re-offend (sorry, I don't have any figures to hand). I was merely discussing a potential benefit of this type of research - I'm not suggesting that people should be locked up for life just because they axhibit a certain brain pattern; more that people who are unfortunate to be in this position and beome a threat to society need to be better monitored.
If there is a root cause of such behaviour that cannot be treated or controlled then the ramifiations should be carefully considered.
In my opinion, the human rights of a victim (even a potential victim in some circumstances) should outway massively those of a criminal.

239. Scientists look to disrupt the brain chemistry of violence

Comment #35551 by Nails on April 27, 2007 at 3:20 pm

A brain imaging study of 41 murderers found evidence that in most cases the prefrontal cortex as well as some deeper brain areas, including the amygdala, functioned abnormally, researchers wrote in the Neuroscience article.

if there is good evidence of a serious link, why arn't we scanning criminals routinely before releasing them?
Would also be compelling evidence for a trial, perhaps.
Thought for the future - maybe finding a 'paedo' anomaly would enable us to lock up these bastards before they hurt anyone or are hidden by the church, as this sicko was:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6590000/newsid_6594800/6594897.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm

240. Mormonism: A Racket Becomes a Religion

Comment #35521 by Nails on April 27, 2007 at 1:03 pm

And we wonder how urban myths and superstitions travel so easily and have a habit of anging aoround for evermore.
Maybe religion is just an organised urban myth based on superstition.

241. Study: Religion is Good for Kids

Comment #34883 by Nails on April 25, 2007 at 1:59 pm

I beleive every word of this.
This is the key paragraph:

The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services—especially when both parents did so frequently—and talked with their kids about religion were rated by both parents and teachers as having better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with non-religious parents.

But when parents argued frequently about religion, the children were more likely to have problems. "Religion can hurt if faith is a source of conflict or tension in the family," Bartkowski noted.

now re-summarise without the religious twist:
The kids whose parents regularly talked with their kids were rated by both parents and teachers as having better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with other parents.

But when parents argued frequently, the children were more likely to have problems.

Make sense now?

242. In the beginning

Comment #34569 by Nails on April 24, 2007 at 2:27 pm

9. Comment #33970 by Pieter on April 22, 2007 at 11:30 pm

anyone find it kind of hypocritical that the pope requires an impossibly high burden of proof for evolution (like seeing a process requiring billions of years being reproduced in a lab experiment) but requires absolutely no proof for accepting religious theories.

"For a believer no proof is necessary, and for a sceptic no proof is ever enough." Derek Acorah

243. Street Evangelist Saves 300 Souls From Enjoying Park

Comment #33862 by Nails on April 22, 2007 at 9:46 am

Though he is not formally recognized by any church, it is estimated that Hilson has reached nearly 75,000 wayward souls on college campuses, at state fairs, and in bus terminals around the Bay Area.

Still not as popular as syphilis in the US then, and about as welcome by the looks of it.

244. Here Comes the Fourth Musketeer.

Comment #33749 by Nails on April 21, 2007 at 2:15 pm

For anyone on this side of the Atlantic, here's a sobering thought: religion in politics is no longer confined to the USA!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6557477.stm

Very scary. Churches in Scotland are urging their congregation to vote for candidates with Christian values.
Does this mean the are ebout to get some British fleas?

245. Iran Exonerates Six Who Killed in Islam's Name

Comment #33423 by Nails on April 20, 2007 at 4:17 am

The last victims, for example, were a young couple engaged to be married who the killers claimed were walking together in public

And there I was, thinking they must have burnt a holy book or had gay sex with a cartoon of the prophet.
How silly of me.

246. Gay hate church to picket VT gun rampage funerals

Comment #33422 by Nails on April 20, 2007 at 4:13 am

10. Comment #33412 by grolaw on April 20, 2007 at 3:47 am


Fred Phelps, the head of WBC, is a disbarred attorney (stole from his trust) and has been all over the place with this kind of barbarity because he is receiving outside funding.

Whatever else they may be, I have found one easy way to make them go away - engage any of them (though the younger women are easier targets) and discuss how difficult it mist be to have to travel so far to give their message. That hotels are expensive - how do they afford to come to XXX place and tell us the truth. Invariably you will hear how they travel together and how the women and men are segregated in different hotel rooms.

Ask if it isn't difficult to be separated from spouse and the response is always "no" not when doing "god's work" - ask if spouse is in the other hotel room and spouse always is (these people are all extended family of Fred Phelps).

Then point out that it seems very gay to segregate married couples into "boys and girls" at the hotel. Act shocked as you realize that this is a gay hate group masquerading as straight and tell them that they should read their own signs!

I've had several of them run away from me - and I never raised my voice or gave them any reason to believe that I wasn't on their side until I point out the implications of their strange lifestyle. They are so homophobic that they simply can't take any analysis that suggests they might be gay!

I'm an attorney in Kansas City. A slippery slope argument leading them into questioning their sexual identity drives them totally over the edge - every time.


Beautiful. i love it.
What I don't understand is the logic behind this proposed act; to picket the funerals because they might be gay (God doesn't do that to one of his own). I won't waste my time listing Christains who have been eaten by lions, crucified or burnt at the stake as witches or heretics - it isn't worth the effort.
But to cause misery - more misery - on the families of the deceased because there is a chance that they might be gay? Well that's just deplorable.

247. Who Needs Sex (or Males) Anyway?

Comment #32679 by Nails on April 18, 2007 at 2:06 am

Even if they have evolved asesxual reproduction it shouldn't be too much of a suprise.
Life has a habit of doing the unexpected from time-to-time, that's why physics and chemistry have laws but biology has laws with exceptions.
Nothing is that clear cut, basically there are so many organisms and possible DNA combinations that whatever is possible has a chance of happening - and providing it doesn't cause the species to die out almost immediatly, it stands a chance of survival.
We need to think 'outside of the box' a little more here....

248. Medicine without Evolution Make Sense?

Comment #32677 by Nails on April 18, 2007 at 2:02 am

Maybe it is through such a basic lack of evolutionary knowledge in the medical community that we have an antibiotic reistance problem.
And it is about time this was addressed, drug companies are now looking at how genetic differences effect the outcome of treatment.

249. Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter

Comment #32616 by Nails on April 17, 2007 at 3:40 pm

3. Comment #32612 by elvenearth on April 17, 2007 at 3:24 pm


What else would they masturbate to? Pictures of female chimps? Other ape species? Human males?

if they're anything like us human males, they'll masturbate over anything....


Chimp behavior sometimes turns violent, particularly in territorial clashes. In Uganda, John Mitani of the University of Michigan observed chimp patrols regularly policing the forest boundaries of their communities. One patrol was seen assaulting an adult male, killing and emasculating him.

Hell, removal of genitalia. Now that's just nasty!!

250. Pope says science too narrow to explain creation

Comment #31860 by Nails on April 14, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Benedict argued that evolution had a rationality that the theory of purely random selection could not explain.

"The process itself is rational despite the mistakes and confusion as it goes through a narrow corridor choosing a few positive mutations and using low probability," he said.


Vague.

"Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."

Precise.

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