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You really have a thick skull. It only worked because of the implicit threat to kill. If "waving" it works just fine, why not wave a flag? Interesting how you chopped off the end of "waving it but not shoot" to distort my post. Even you know that by not threatening to shoot, your gun is useless.

Wrong reasoning. Medicine is politically neutral. At least it should be. You can't decide based on politics what diseases are treated and what are not. Republicans try to bring politics into medicine (contraceptives, for example) but that's wrong. Do not mis-interpret my explanation as...

Wrong and wrong. The only purpose of a gun is to kill. How do you suppose to use a gun in self-defense? Wave it at the bad guy but not shoot? Suicide is the #1 cause of gun related deaths. In 1999, 58% of all gun deaths were suicides, and 38% were homicides. In 2003, those percentages...

You don't even understand what you're quoting here. Although in many applications you can use pseudo-random number generators and the correlations are negligible if you're careful enough, the correlations are definitely there if you look for them. The warnings, How to distinguish the output...

Guns are not inanimate objects. They're made to kill. The only question is whether you use them to kill good or bad people. But killing is not "inanimate."

Because these are not your typical researches done by someone in his own garage, that are politically neutral. These are strategically important researches (think hydrogen bomb or Star Wars or fuel cell) that should be directed by elected politicians instead of career beauracrats. What if the...

jem, String theory, multiverse, and other such speculations are only speculations. As such they leave more questions than answers. I don't believe that you understand the string theory more than I do. I think you're just using it to intimidate your opponent - who dares to argue that your...

Again, only through misunderstanding (or misrepresenting) these articles you would find support for ID. The anthropic principles is basically this: The fact that we exist pretty much limits what the values of the natural constants can be in our corner of the universe. It doesn't mean that...

Now you're showing your ignorance with the computers too. What computer generates are not random numbers. They are pseudo-random numbers, meaning that they are tuned such that the correlations between these numbers are insignificant for the purpose of computation. For each type of "random"...

I guess it's hard to get through your thick skull. There is no arms confiscation program. If you can't tell who's going to get the machine guns, banning all means you cut off the supply. Then you regulate the small arms so that the bad guys can't get them. In your sister's case, she won...

In an arms race between "law-abiding citizens" and criminal gangs, who are likely to win?

Because random chance is perfectly explained by thermodynamics model and supported by experiments, but intelligent design is not. In fact, you can compute the rate of gene mutations as a function of temperature (the higher the temperature, the faster the mutations), and it comes out pretty...

I had not read this interview. The passage I quoted earlier was from one of his books, in which he properly defined "Darwinist" as a slander. Your quote bothers me. I also found this sentence in the same interview: " I'm becoming increasingly interested in computer models and artificial life...

You were on "their side," before there was even a debate. Just look at your posts on ET. Pretending that you were swayed by "caricature" just exposes your smallmindedness. I guess you've never heard of the Montana Militia: http://www.militiaofmontana.com/ They are every bit the kind of gun...

Do you think anyone believes that "your type" are so easily "moved to their side?" Where are your moral convictions? Did they go out of the window when Foley resigned? What does gun ownership has anything to do with religion? I don't remember the Bible saying anything about the guns. If...

"Long time" is in the eyes of the beholder. Seven years is not that long, unless your friend Mark Steyn has a really poor memory. Don't tell me that Yugoslavia doesn't count. Obviously you counted Somalia, which was only a humanitarian mission. Iraq was simply a poor choice for a battlefield...

Nonsense. Quote me a single sentence in which Dawkins refer to himself as a "Darwinist." It's a title that the religious zealots and ignorant media put on him, against his own protests. Here is what he actually said: "Contrary to my rather ludicroos reputation as an 'ultra-Darwinist' (a...

Well, FYI, the bulk of the Atomic Energy Commission became DOE in mid 1970's. I didn't know that you were such a dinosaur. :D Dept of Commerce has little experience running these national labs. Their priority is not technology innovation, but promotion of commerce. During Clinton years a...

You continue to misrepresent the theory of evolution. "Observation of biological processes" itself is a theory of anything, just like the observationn of falling apples is not a theory of gravity. Theory of evolution is a complete scientific theory, including the evolution of man, which by...

Your post is full of misunderstandings of science. Let me try to explain to you as best as I can. 1. There is a huge difference between theory of evolution, which is science, and Darwinism, which is complete nonsense. I don't know whether your comfusing the two is intentional. I hope it's...