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Reply to Just a Rant on Military Rank in Ethics JoeUser Forums

Eh, I do not know much about the military, just what my father told me. He was a Ranger. He went from being enlisted to the rank of Captain. He told me he also built nuclear and biological weapons somewhere in Colorado. Hippies shut the joint down. Father's Advice: Do not join the Army. It is a lot like playing World of Warcraft with your life. You will always have to listen to some dimwit who knows far less than you do, just because he has been in longer. Go to a good scho

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]I prefer the God that has the power to create everything so that it's able to run on its own without his intervention, like a perpetual motion machine.[/quote] If there is a God and he set the world into motion just right, didn't he determine everything to happen just the way it should already? Hence, He would really be directing everyting while doing nothing. Let's say Suzie prays to God. God set up the world so that Suzie would pray to him, and he also set up the world

Reply to Exit Here in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Do you know why automobile fatality rates are so high? The government forgot to put signs up every 30 ft that alternate "breathe in" and "breathe out". Don't worry, though. Your tax dollars are hard at work correcting the problem.

Reply to Congrats Hillary! in Democrat JoeUser Forums

Trust me. You never know what a political candidate wants unless you find out what the lobbyists backing that candidate want. Don't listen to what they say, listen to how they're paid.

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Yes, it would be interesting. But it is conjecture, as is virtually any other theory on origins.[/quote] I stated it as conjecture. [quote]What I am trying to say is that there could be a "universal code". Now wouldn't that be something?[/quote]

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]That's precisely the point...we were formed all at once..Adam and Eve were created with perfect genes which means they as well as their descendents for lots of time didn't have "junk" DNA whatever that is. That they had perfect genes also helps explain their long lifespan of all those up until the time of the Flood, not to mention the circumstances of the way the world was at the time with the vapor canapy and all, high content of CO2, etc.[/quote] It is impossible to ha

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Which is what a COMMON DESIGNER would do, zoologist. The consistency of the pattern would seem to point TOWARDS the existence of a creator, not away from it.[/quote] Interestingly, if we are made by a "common designer", then we must be included in what the designer is. Thus, if the designer is A B and C, we could be C, but we could not be an external D. This is like saying that a writer can only write what he knows. So, bascially, it is not entirely fallacious,

Reply to Annoying apps claiming system resources in Windows Software JoeUser Forums

[quote]bloatware[/quote] lol

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Their kids will have those same alleles at the same loci and their childrens children will have them as well, just in different variations. But today we find specific spots that have hundreds or thousands of variant alleles. They have slowly evolved to provide more variation. Two people, or animals (or 4 or 6 or 8) couldnt store that variety.[/quote] That's an excellent point. All those populations would have died due to the "bottleneck" effect. Zoo probably knows more about that

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Interestingly, I have a half-baked idea about bases not only being the same structures but also being the same stereoisomer. That means that the 3-D configuration is either assembled forwards or in the reverse image (like how it would look in a mirror), and all your nucleotides are assembled the same way.

Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]apply warning labels....Can we get one on the Bible?WARNING: This is a collection of stories that may or may not be true. Read at your own risk.~Zoo[/quote] We should put that warning on every book of fiction to date.

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]OKay. From my daughter's biology textbook, I understand the basic make up of our DNA. Help me out though with this.....becasue I honestly don't know...are you saying each one of us humans 4 nucleotides are exactly the same? Are they the same as a dog's nucleotides, the same as a plant's?[/quote] Yes, they are all the same. The genetic code is universal. (For the most part. There are some unimportant bacterial exceptions.) The same nucleotide sequences, found in triplets

Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Warning: the miller-urey experiment probably did not similate the earth's early atmosphere; it does not demonstrate how life's building blocks originated. Warning: Darwin's tree of life does not fit the fossil record of the Cambrian explosion and molelucar evidence does not support a simple branching tree pattern.[/quote] If the average Joe could come up with arguments as complex as these, then the Education system has done a much better job. I bet even fellow s

Reply to Expelled Didn't Get Expelled in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Someone went click happy...

Reply to It Appears I'm ahead of my Time! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I heard LDS is the fastest growing church in the world (I am assuming relative to its base size.). Maybe this is why. ;)

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]This doesn't make sense becasue we now are able to set prisoners free becasue of their very unique DNA... right? so how can they be the same?[/quote] Genetic profiling (I have actually performed this.) takes advantage of the fact that people have differing VNTRs (variable number tandem repeats). VNTRs occur in the "junk" regions of our genome. (They are actually not junk. We just have no consensus about what they do.) VNTR alleles are highly diverse, so they make confident identi

Reply to Expelled Didn't Get Expelled in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

If you watch Expelled, be sure to watch Jesus Camp. Although, neither will teach you much. Did you know that Richard Dawkins is a zoologist? Who else noticed Zoo's unwavering belief in alien intelligent design?

Reply to PC game piracy hurts us all in GalCiv Journals JoeUser Forums

This doesn't bother me. I don't usually buy computer games. I only do that if someone tells me it is great and wants to play. Bring on the DRM.

Reply to Going Green in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Please explain what you mean. All animals breed, are you suggesting that humans don't have the same right as all other living creatures? What do you mean by sustainable future?[/quote] Not all animals breed. Many animals die before they can accomplish that. Human beings are very successful as a species. Modern medicine, nutrition, and lifestyles mean that people, on average, live a long time, giving everyone plenty of opportunity to breed. For example, some people theor

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Absolutely, 100% true....for starters, we have completely different DNA.[/quote] We have similar DNA, even to a creature as simple as Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm). Many of the genes we discovered in organsims like the fruit fly (Sonic hedghog, NOTCH1, Antennaepedia, etc.) have human orthologs.

Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Are acts judged "good" or "evil" based solely on the intention of the actor? Evil is not working together to make the world a better place I rather agree with this. But it's got a few potholes. If you claim sole knowledge of the definition of what makes the world a better place, you do so at the expense of others who think *they* know what makes the world a better place. And that isn't "working together." So what is the missi

Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Becasue in order for amphibians to change into reptiles to into change to birds, then macroevolution would have to take place...now, go back to the definition of macroevolution and you already agreed macroevolution is bunk. WE AGREE THAT[/quote] I seriously doubt you convinced a zoologist to agree that macroevolution is "bunk". [quote]scoles, A ripening banana does not show macroevolution...as there aren't any new, higher genes being produced. A r

Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]This example is NOT ONE OF MACROEVOLUTION at least not according to the definition I provided above. The watermelon is still a watermelon. Variety within kind is not macroevolution. Again, becasue new, higher genetic info is not gained in the process giving rise to change from one species to a completely new different one. Natural selection is not macroevolution for the same reason....new, higher genetic info is not gained, but instead tends to be lost, at best. Natura

Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]There is no neutral.A lot of people think there is a neutral. They're wrong. Every second they're either good, or not good. There is no middle ground. There is no partially good. That's why you can't work your way into heaven - people are not good by nature.Oi...sometimes I don't get you moral absolutists. *sighs* It's hard enough to try and point out that gray, or neutral does exist...in the real world. Night all.[/quote] gray? nah. unless you mean an action that has no conseque