Mokele

No, completely wrong. You are confusing "reasonable doubt" with "doubt". "Reasonable doubt" means that alternative possibilities not only exist, but are logically plausible and can account for the data. "Doubt" simply means that there is some possibility of a different explanation, no matter how bizarre, convoluted, weird, or otherwise incredibly improbable. For instance, if I walk up to you in a store and hand you $5, there can be no "reasonable doubt" that it actually happened (you saw me, witnesses saw me, you have evidence with my fingerprints on it), but there is always some level of doubt (since it may have been a robot duplicate, or a clone, or a hallucination). Scientific theories can be proven beyond all reasonable doubt (such as evolution), but anything "biblical" doesn't even get to be called a theory (since it lacks empirical, repeatable, testable evidence), and is much, much more open to doubt.

You need an AI to navigate a plane through a sustained 10-g turn. The human brain can't do it, mostly because in order to work, the human brain needs blood, which is all in the feet in such a turn. AI would be useful for exactly the same reason robots are useful - they can do tasks too dangerous for humans, can do tasks more cheaply, can function without rest, and can function in environments beyond human physiological tolerances.

Honestly, the affair is besides the point. He could have been there building shelters for orphaned puppies with leprosy, and that still does not justify simply vanishing for six days. What if there had been a natural disaster or major industrial accident? Or anything else that actually required the person elected to run the state to actually be there and do his job? And of course, if he genuinely thought that a Governor could simply go missing for six days without anyone noticing, he's a total moron.

Theosophy according to Wikipedia.

All Hail Wikipedia! The alpha, beta, and gamma subunits are all individual proteins, each coded by a separate gene. Thus one is never turned into the other, but rather the transcription of the gamma gene is lowered and eventually shut off, while the transcription of the beta gene is increased to replace it. Apparently this happens at around 6 months after birth.

As has been pointed out, mutation is what gives rise to new traits, and this in no way undermines the concept of evolution. Seriously, you need to take some time and learn what evolution actually is.

Maybe because we've watched evolution happen, watched species turn into other species, and watched major morphological changes occur? Maybe because every scrap of evidence in all of biology supports it?

Human embryos do, however, have gill pouches. They just never perforate completely as they do in fish.

And what about those who cannot be expected to cast an informed vote, such as those with severe Alzheimer's disease?

He attempted to intimidate or coerce 51% of the US population. That's what the entire debate is about, controlling women. The message was clear and simple: "we can kill anyone who dares go against us on this issue". Furthermore, he clearly attempted to "influence government policy by intimidation or coercion" - by terrorizing abortion providers, he attempted to intimidate people into not providing the constitutionally-guaranteed care, thus attempting to undermine the law. How is this any less terrorism than a clinic bombing?

Pretty much the same at the state law level. Roeder still qualifies.

According to US Law, title 18, part 1, chapter 113B, section 2331: Therefore, by legal standards of the US, Roeder's actions were terrorism, particularly with respect to parts i and ii.

Frustration / exhaustion. You may be genuinely interested in understanding at a deeper level, but 99% of those who "express skepticism" are doing so for partisan or economic self-interest with no real interest in actually learning anything. It's the same reason we're instantly suspicious of any sort of skeptical question about evolution. We humans are inductive creatures - if the first 10 times we encounter something, there's a negative association, we assume that association is always there. In this case, we see so many shills for the oil lobby tossing about blatantly false claims that we become instantly suspicious of any skepticism.

Before discussing the merits/flaws of a career in paranormal investigation, you need to figure out a much more pragmatic question: Who will actually pay you to do this? Those who work in science either are in industry (where you're paid to produce something via science, such as a drug or device), or academia (where you're paid to teach and bring in grants that the university can take a percentage of). In either case, your employment and continued research is contingent upon providing a service to your employer. Who is actually going to hire a 'paranormal investigator'? You can't produce anything really useful, so no industry will fund you, and no university will let you teach this stuff. And TV shows on the subject care more about ratings than integrity (the same goes for normal science, too, which is why most TV science personalities aren't researchers anymore, if they ever were). The merits of your field are irrelevant if you can't pay rent on your apartment. Even if there *are* phenomena that deserve investigation, who will pay you to do it?

Um, what? Can you re-phrase that into something resembling coherent sentences?

iNow, only the yellow, red and green lines are subduction or putative subduction zones. The others are either ridges where expansion happens, or locations where the plates slide by each other.

Why is the growth of the Antarctic plate a problem? There's no rule saying that plates cannot grow or shrink. The only way this would be a problem is if the increased surface area was not matched by decreases elsewhere.

As a more minor development, I would also suggest renaming your "postule" to something that sounds less like the symptom of a bizarre tropical disease.

I'd like to live as long as my body and mind allow me to do science. Which is ironic, considering the sort of animals I work with (and keep as pets).

You're using european values for insolation? Why? Latitude matters. For much of the US, insolation exceeds that in Europe by over 50%, and in some areas, by over 100%. European values correspond to southern Alaska.

Even with a direct hit, how likely is it to do anything more than punch a meteorite-diameter hole all the way through, unless it hits bone?

Adult stem cells can only make a few cell types for the location they were harvested from: skin, liver, etc. Embryonic stem cells can make any cell type in the entire body.

According to this textbook, "magnesium competes with calcium for synaptic transmission". Also, iNow, if they mentioned clove oil, it's actually legit - clove oil can be used to induce sedation and analgesia in pretty much anything with a permeable skin and/or gills.

Even if that's the case, though, that doesn't imply pain. In our case, we have both sophisticated social learning and feel pain, but there's no reason to assume both are linked.

Carrots have high levels of beta carotene, the precursor to Vitamin A, which in turn is transformed into retinol, the actual chemical which interacts with photons to result in vision.