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If Bush had done this before March, 2003, no soldiers would have died, Bush's approval would be in the 70's, and we'd be talking about a "permanent" Republican majority now.

I'm not sure about that. There's been speculation that homosexual behavior in animals are caused by stress situations, such as too many individuals, too little food. So it's their way of population control - they don't have contraceptives. Maybe that's why there are more homosexuals in the...

Where is the brain?

The more you talk, the more you expose your ignorance. You have no idea where sun gets its energy from. Make your best guess now. We'll see how far you will be off the mark. If the reasons for blackouts and market crashes were so crystal clear, why do these repeat in history, even after...

I'm not going to refute everyone of z10's nonsenses - they're all just permutations of the same random words (did I say "random?"). It gets tiresome after awhile. However, a couple of gems here cannot be ignored. Guess what? Before sun was a star, it was a dark cloud of dust and ice. Since...

Leonard Susskind is firmly on the opposing side of ID. Likewise, he is firmly on the supporting side of global warming theory. Take a look at this book: http://edge.org/documents/archive/edge181.html Here is a direct quote from Susskind: "I suspect there is more at stake than biology...

That would be one heck of botched engineering job! Why can't He design what goes in the same size as what comes out? :D

Partitioning Iraq might be the solution to get us out of there. It will reduce one big problem into three small ones. In fact, only two small ones because Kurds are with us. With an internationally sanctioned partitioning, the shiites and the sunnis will be in two separate countries. They'll...

Trying to cover up ignorance with more ignorance? Do you know anything about chaos theory? Have you ever heard of "self-organization?" Do you know how order arises out of disorder spontaneously? (That is, without any outside influence). Who designed the snow flakes? Who designed the...

That seals it. Ignorance is bliss. I nominate this for ET's quote of the year.

However, without modern medicine, ten times that many people would die. Speaking of war on stupidity, here is a website where you get a chance to vote for stupidity of the year, named in honor of Charles Darwin: http://www.darwinawards.com/ Last year's winner:

Nonsense. Do you know what a temperature is? (hint: it's related to something called "entropy.") If you don't, don't open your mouth.

Physicists are not debating AP. Some of them are speculating because they haven't found good answers to a lot of questions. AP is not within the domain of physics. BTW, why are you believing physicists now? I remember you were quite against them when you were debating global warming with me.

One important consequence of randomness is temperature. If one denies randomness, then there is no statistical way to define a temperature. Is z10 trying to tell us that we're not supposed to know how hot it is? :D

The more you talk, the more you expose your ignorance. Although it is nearly impossible to decode a modern encription using a classical computer (quantum computer is a different matter), it is very easy to show that there are patterns in an encripted message (by a scientist, not a layman, of...

Is this a tongue twister? :D

No link is needed. Conversion of energy into matter happens all the time around us. Every time a light is shun on something, some photons are absorbed into that material. That material gets heavier by the amount of photons it absorbs. If you want an example of change in fundamental...

Just don't go with Cheney. :D Luckily, he had a 28-gauge shotgun, not a machine gun.

First, whether or not you need to fire the arm, it is the implicit threat of using it that scares off the bad guys. Without that threat, guns are useless. Suicide is actually pretty hard. There is a psychological block that prevent most people from voluntarily jumping off a high building. Two...

You can't win the debate (guns are for self-defense). So you're changing the subject. Do you agree then, that "gun for self-defense" argument is crap? I agree fully with hunting - I think hunting is one of the best sports. But anyone who insists that they need machine guns for hunting is...