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I don't know of any serious biologist who doubts the reality of evolution through natural selection. That's fine as soon as you have a reproducing organism that can undergo mutations that are transmissible to its offspring. So once you have your first bacterium you're home free. It's...

I do not want to feed the evil monster in Washington, D.C. My taxes do not go toward "the general welfare", whatever the hell that is. They go towards $150,000 / year pensions to government employees. And to wars I never wanted us to get into in the first place. And for entitlements I never...

Um, no, it's not that simple. Suppose that we tried to create a prokaryote by randomly throwing together simple molecules. Suppose you carried out one trillion such experiments in parallel in each cubic centimeter of water, and did one million such parallel experiments every second. Then with...

Um, did you read the title of this thread? The OP dragged God into the subject on the first line, and I don't think he's an atheist. I fully agree that there is today no good theory about the origin of life. Every proposed theory has lots of gaps where "magic happens". A prokaryotic cell...

I believe he does, as does Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. So don't just rag on the Republicans. Who would refuse such a pension? Ron Paul. The one and only.

Congress is absolutely guaranteed to continue the policies that have put a floor under the price of gold -- deficits in excess of $1 trillion a year. Social Security is already in deficit (the "payroll tax cut" just adds to the red ink). Medicare is in worse shape. The baby boomers are...

I created an account with a fake name and nothing in it -- no friends, interests, etc., just so I can access stuff that facebook won't let me access without a facebook account.

Forget about Obama - I want to apply that technology to my neighbors.

This is the argument from idiocy. "We're too stupid to figure out how life started so God must have snapped his fingers and created it." The problem is that we're also too stupid to figure out how God started. So I guess that proves there is no God. Or else it proves that some Uber God...

Lucrum has a point. Oral prostitution could fully cover the cost of contraceptives. Let the free market work.

Sure, it is possible Obama wins by a landslide. As 2008 showed, no matter how bad the Democratic candidate is the Republicans can be counted on to pick somebody even worse. Ron Paul was the best candidate in 2008 and is the best in 2012. But the Republican Party establishment hates him.

Indeed.

He is a lefty. And no, I never claimed he is a Muslim. So no, your attempt at being cute didn't work.

I'm supposed to believe that lefty, secular Barrack Obama felt social pressure to go to church? From whom, I wonder. Certainly not from his Bible thumping relatives or friends (from what I can tell there were damn few such people in his social circle). And why *that* church? Paul has...

Well, that was fun. Of course the gold price is determined by global supply and global demand, and what Americans do has little to do with the gold price. Most of the demand now is coming from India and China. The Chinese in particular have no silly illusions about the strength of the U.S...

Obama is no worse than his 2008 opponent, McCain, but I can't be enthusiastic about him. His circuit and supreme court nominations have been disasters. He's already gotten us into two new wars. And he is no more interested in restoring the Bill of Rights than the neocons are. As for the...

Well, this is a positive development. I have a lot of disagreements with Obama but when he does something right I have no problem acknowledging that. So, good for Obama. Now maybe we should try some diplomacy with the Iranians, instead of constantly ratcheting up the war talk. Right now...

Why did you attend the sermons at all if you just tuned them out? Unless you were a child being dragged there by your parents I can't imagine why. Obama attended Reverend Wright's church as an adult, for nearly 20 years. I presume he did so to listen to the sermons, or to discuss things with...

If Obama didn't know about the racist theology of his preacher of 20 years then he must be a grotesque incompetent. Strangely, I never hear lefties make that argument. By "reproductive rights" you mean the right to kill a fetus. I know that lefties find it hard to wrap their heads around...

Olympia Snowe was a RINO. If you're going to vote like a Democrat you should run as a Democrat. She won't be missed.