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  1. exchemist

    I grow increasingly suspicious

    En France, on dit avoir un chat dans la gorge, n'est ce pas?:)
  2. exchemist

    The only solution is to love all mankind

    Quite. We had a woman in the choir like this. I recall her brightly suggesting, when I was standing in as a temporary choir director (and already had my hands full with that), we could all go and sing carols down at the shops, in the run up to Christmas. Fine I said, if you can organise a date...
  3. exchemist

    The only solution is to love all mankind

    There's also a bit of an issue with sexual orientation, if I recall correctly.
  4. exchemist

    The only solution is to love all mankind

    We've been over this before: https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/should-the-oneness-of-humanity-be-taught-in-all-schools-worldwide.274261/ It's just a variant of this: Where are the people?, though at least the vacuous Baha'i cry to "unite" now has slightly more concrete form in the shape...
  5. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    This poster got banned a long time ago.:)
  6. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    I can explain the part in red. You are called these things because you regularly show that you still fail to understand basic science and can't even think straight. In this very post, you show a bizarre degree of ignorance of what the Miller-Urey experiment was about. It is truly stupid to say...
  7. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    There was no "fuzz type thing". You have made that up. The experiment showed that a range of organic molecules, in particular amino acids, the monomers from which proteins are constructed, could arise naturally from the inorganic chemicals present on the early Earth. That is all it was...
  8. exchemist

    The only solution is to love all mankind

    Facile nonsense, that does not bear a moment’s examination. This is just more vacuous Baha’i preaching. You are like a cracked record.
  9. exchemist

    Irony of the evolutionary belief

    I'm not sure you need the competition bit. All you need, surely, is an environment containing some sort of challenge, so that breeding success is improved by a particular trait, don't you? So for example if the climate becomes drier, an organism that is better at conserving water will breed...
  10. exchemist

    Israel: Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide.

    I realise I am grabbing the 3rd rail with this thread, but I feel I cannot stay silent any longer. The attached news report makes truly shocking reading: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says Not only is the Israeli government and army denying food supplies to the...
  11. exchemist

    Self-immolation as a protest against what is going on in Gaza

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide
  12. exchemist

    Celebrating St. Brigid - Bridging Paganism and Catholicism

    My first serious love was called Bridget: a beautiful willowy girl with dark wavy hair and blue/grey eyes. There was an Irish connection in the family.
  13. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    My point (and that of a number of others) is that the term "fish" is not a cladistic term and can't sensibly be used as one. Science cannot expect to take a commonly used word and mangle it out of all recognition in an attempt to redefine it just to fit one of its theories. We can just about...
  14. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    The point is at the end: the term “fish” is a category that does not constitute a clade.
  15. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    There was a woman in the office once who looked a bit like that.
  16. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    These are not sound analogies, though. The issue is the choice of terms, not whether the science can be believed or not. It is pointless trying to redefine a well established everyday word like “fish” to include all tetrapods. Saying all tetrapods belong to a classification of creatures that...
  17. exchemist

    Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

    To supplement my previous reply, take a look at this: Climate Change and U.S. Property Insurance: A Stormy Mix So the insurance industry “believes” in climate change, and if you look at the chart showing how insurance payouts have ballooned since the 1980s, it is clear why.
  18. exchemist

    Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

    Ask an insurer. That's why I mentioned the insurance industry. They are well aware of it and adjusting their premia accordingly.
  19. exchemist

    Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

    That may be so with the topsoil issue, I don't know the ins and out of that. However with the climate change issue, it's already on top of us. I was reading only last week in the Financial Times about the soaring insurance premia, in some parts of the world, against fire, wind and flood. Some...
  20. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Quite so. I can't help thinking it might be more helpful to the discussion if, when talking in technical terms, e.g. cladistics, one sticks to the technical name of the taxon, viz. Sarcopterygii, instead of dubbing every member of the group "fish", since the everyday meaning of "fish" (which...
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