Hellbender

I am sick of mine, so I want a new one. Any suggestions/links are welcome.

Now calm down. I wasn't insulting anyone's intelligence. And I am sure you have solid (non-anecdotal) evidence supporting this fact? I'm sorry, but simply stating something is fact doesn't constitute evidence in my book (or anywhere else) Otherwise, I believe I am in the position to say its' bull-sh!t.

Here's one. I had a math teacher in college with whom I selected becasue math is not a strong subject for me. In fact, if math skills were the only way of measuring intelligence, I would be as smart as a lobotomized rat. Anyways she had a reputation for not really teaching mainstream algebra, but rather having class discussions about her conspiracy theories, never assigning homework, and passing nearly everybody (this lady is a saint). Her conspiracy theories always consisted of blown out of proportion facts, odd web sources, and her personal paranoid beliefs. I remember one where she casually said "the world is going to end tomorrow" becasue of the number of the date, and some ancient text saying as much. I pretended to be all into it and agreed with her to get an easy A.

I agree. I dont think many of them actually think about why they don't like evolution, but they think it's bad becasue someone said so and they agree. If there is a cosmic being of some sort, I don't believe it takes in interest in our lives at all. But it takes only a little stretch of imagination and faith (which, not to be condescending, isn't unknown to religious people) to accept that a deity could still be present and "use" evolutionary mechanisms for changing it's world and creations. It doesn't necessarily have to be at odds with faith.

in a biblical creationists mind, it does. Fallacy of presupposition is used by them contantly, and seems to make perfect sense to them.

you said "aside from the slanty eyes". Sounds pretty racist to me. You seemed to sum up all asians as simply people with "slant eyes" as a common feature.

uh and who did this? And wasting out tax dollars and cutting funding of many needed programs to fuel a pointless, dead-end war is so much better.

Where is the original poster?

cuz ghosts are figments of people's imagination. Some people see the world as so boring and mundane that they have to make stuff like ghosts up, hence all the mysticism in our society.

lets say for a moment that we didn't figure out how the first self-replicating molecule was formed. How would this make the observations we have about evolution false? Sorry, that tired old creationist rhetoric isn't going to fool anyone here, in case you forgot, this is a Science forum. Some people here are PHDs.

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man you posted in the wrong forum. I think this belongs in the evolution forum, or more appropriately, the pseudoscience forum, becasue you are abviously trying to use a tired creationist strawman about evolution. We have explaned the first living organism, but I urge you to research this information yourself from an evolution website, not one of your creationist sites. By the way, welcome.

Wow a conservative who is also a racist. Who woulda thunk it? and we all know what an absolute genius Bush is.

although I agree that this opinion needs further explanation if he wants to pursue it further, there is no need to explain one's opinion.

There are already surprisingly intelligent birds. African grey parrots can be trained to vocalize human words with a knowledge of what they are saying. Birds in the family corvidae are mostly pretty intelligent, especially crows and ravens.

I concur. I had a pretty long fuse for creationist arguments a while ago. It dwindled with every ad hominem attack, strawman attack, appeal to authority, misquotation and tired dogmatic argument. I am sure Dawkins gets to hear them all and then some. Such an attitude is likely an honest reaction to having to deal with all that insufferable pap biblical creationists like to use and are convinced is effective.

ok good. I don't want any hard feelings here. This could turn out to be a very interesting discussion, and I really don't want to come off like I am trolling or something.

I agree here. Not to parrot what mokele said, but you have to go with what will make you the happiest, regardless of money. You are extremely fortunate to have arrived at the dilemma of whether to become a surgeon or a chemist with a pharmaceutical company. If you are more interested in chemistry, go for it.

eunochs.

while I know this question was not for me, my above posts do not reflect my lifestyle. They are only obervations based on experience and what I learn about anthropology and biopsychology. On a personal note, I am monogamous, and I have one partner who I plan to marry. I have no desire to stray because I think of the bigger picture and the consequences such an action would have on the woman I love.

Sadly, humans will never rise above our evolutionary traits. While I can see how this would be beneficial (in the case of partner sharing/STD risk), there are stupid people out there who never think of such things as avoiding instinct.