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    Nude women in the media

    Setting playboy aside for a second, is a nude woman always a sex object? Is that true of men as well? Why or why not?
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    New Evidence Found To Show Humans Came From Fish

    New Scientist is meant to be understandable to lay people, and never claimed to be peer reviewed, so it does veer into sensationalism very once in a while. However, the Daily Mail recently got banned as a source by Wikipedia for being too unreliable. When Wikipedia, of all sources, thinks you...
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    New Evidence Found To Show Humans Came From Fish

    Just a tip: If you want to sound reliable in an argument, use reliable sources. The Daily Mail is not, and will never be, a reliable source. Neither is scienceagainstevolution.org The finding was originally reported in New Scientist, so cite the original source to show the story's credibility...
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    New Evidence Found To Show Humans Came From Fish

    A protein is a string of amino acids. "Peptide" is what you use when talking specifically about the amino acid sequence and not the 3D structure it folds into. Getting the peptide to fold into the correct structure is trickier than just making it, but it also can and has been done. Most...
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    Evidence of Evolution that was presented but never addressed

    Are you sure you understand the term asexually? Asexual reproduction happens when offspring arise from a single parent, and inherit the genes of that parent only. This can happen in many ways, from division (as in bacteria), to budding and vegetative propagation, to parthenogenesis (done by some...
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    New Evidence Found To Show Humans Came From Fish

    Not to nit pick James Bond, but I wanted to point out some inaccuracies in your post... Wherever did you get that idea? These days, if you have the money, a company can make any protein sequence you specify, no cells needed! One of the many vendors offering this service can be found here...
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    A Very Simple Question For Creationists

    Syphilis came to Europe in the 1500's from the New World, where it had been endemic for centuries. Since sheep did not exist in the New World prior to contact with Europeans, I doubt it was possible for the locals there to be having sex with them. More importantly, the organism that causes...
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    Science of Abiogenesis:- By popular demand

    The new data doesn't "wipe away" the versions of events being discussed here. They complicate the picture, yes, since they suggest the DNA was around at the same time as RNA, and hybrid molecules between the two were selected against, but it doesn't negate the core premise. One particularly...
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    Science of Abiogenesis:- By popular demand

    What you describe is exactly how science works; scientists revise their views based on new evidence. This is one of the key differences between evolution science and creationism, and is not as negative a thing as KBC1963 seems to think. Furthermore, I would like to point out that the work of...
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    Cool resource: scientific perspective on the emergence of life

    oh, sorry!! here it is!
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    Cool resource: scientific perspective on the emergence of life

    If anyone out there wants to learn more about current scientific views and understanding of the emergence of life on Earth, check out the Emergence of Life course by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Coursera! Its free to view (unless you want the certificate of completion), and...
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    "Sir David Attenborough says humans have stopped evolving"

    Humans, especially in the past few centuries, have greatly slowed the pace of evolution by adapting through technloy and medicine rather than physical traits. In a way, the evolution of ideas and technology has taken the place of evolution by natural selection. I think Attenborough is...
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    Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

    Yeah, this is where special effects teams should draw inspiration from :)
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    Mole Rats and Cancer

    Well, scratches can happen when you are digging through dirt... I guess its possible that their immune system eveolved to target cancer, maybe since there can be soil radiation that makes it more likely (not sure if that's an issue where the mole rats live, but some parts of the world have more...
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    Mole Rats and Cancer

    Maybe, although many toxic bacteria, such as those causing tetanus, live in the ground. Like I said though, it is all speculative untill there is any data :)
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    The begining of life

    Actually, cells can sense chemicals ouside their membrane that tell them quite a bit about the outside world, like the presence of other cells, whether those cells are supposed to be there, whether hose cells are healthy, and so on. They can do some pretty amazing stuff with that information...
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    The begining of life

    I think you are mixing cause and effect here... food didn't appear where animals hang out, animals hang out where there is the right food. According to evolutionary theory, an animal that is able to use a food resource nobody else does will have an advanage, and eventually that species will...
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    Mole Rats and Cancer

    It'd be interesting to find out why they evolved such immune systems... it probably has to do with their underground lifestyle, but that's just speculation....
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    What is the significance of this experiment?

    Exactly! Added to the fact that, with bactria, species was such a nebulous concept from the beginnig...
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    What is the significance of this experiment?

    Well, speciation tends to happen much faster when a population is exposed to a variety of environments or stress conditions. Like when an ancestral ape population could live in woodland or savannah, and the two different environments led to one species becoming two (proto-chimps and...
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