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    The Theory of Evolution

    Google is your friend. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer...=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=9558 You aren't likely to see an entire reprinting as it is 3+ billion base pairs long. But here it is chromosome by chromosome.
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    The Theory of Evolution

    Absolutely. That's exactly what I am describing. Sickle cell carrier is a bad thing in America - but if we suddenly had an outbreak of malaria it would be a very good thing to have. Evolutions concerns both the organism and the environment. Clotting disorders tend to run together because...
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    The Theory of Evolution

    You'll note my "vast majority" part. I didn't say all, I said "vast majority." So you are in the thin minority of heterozygous people with actual problems. But let's do some math... Let's say the US has 300 million people and that Factor V prevalence is 5%. So about 15,000,000 people...
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    The Theory of Evolution

    I'm doing a study right now to really nail down that number. We're testing everyone who comes to our service with a DVT for Leiden. And when I say "persist" I don't mean that it concerns one person - I mean it persists in the gene pool, that it is a heritable variation that had been passed...
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    The Theory of Evolution

    Your numbers are wrong. It is 80-140x more likely for DVT as a homo and 8-10x as a hetero. It is beneficial because it overclots where other disorders underclot, it persists in those same populations. It's bad that you need warfarin but if you had Factor VIII deficiency you would love your...
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    The Theory of Evolution

    Hey retard, I already posted one in that other evolution thread, and I know that you read about it. It's the Factor V Leiden mutation that is very beneficial. I'll leave you to your religious nonsense, sorry to interupt your day with reality... (I have concluded that you lack the...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Hey retard, Fossils aren't alive. They are dead. And have been for millions upon millions of years. So in your little world you would only be correct in saying that the fossil record is consistent with already dead things and very few living things suddenly appearing on earth, fully...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Let's make a deal. I show you how an epoxide can form O2 in a reductive atmosphere and you then go through the list and identify the other such molecules that can release O2 in a reductive atmosphere and why they can... I show you mine, you show me yours. Time to put up or shut up. And...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    First of all it is prokaryote, not prokargote. Second of all I don't spend my life posting to this, so you'll have to excuse my lack of posting as real life sometimes happens to people. It looks like my work was done. But to answer 1 of your questions you should do some epoxide...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    I'm going to reply to 3 of your previous points. First, what exactly am I trying to prove? I thought I was rather explicit about it - you have no education in any of the scientific disciplines that are concerned with evolutionary questions, your knowledge is poor (and that is being...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    I looked over those syllabi. I don't see anything that is not standard science - care to point out the parts that are full of unfalsifiable allegations? And you can falsify abiogenesis theories. Case in point: whether the early earth was reductive or not. Some reactions work in reductive...
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    Draft Question

    Yeah, because Rumsfeld has done such a superb job in Iraq. He obviously knows what he is doing and any opinions to the contrary are just part of the vast left-wing conspiracy. One of W's biggest problems is not being smart enough to surround himself with smarter people. Our disaster in...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    I believe that being bit by the dragon is in the same class as being burned by the dragon, which is a condition that Sagan addressed in the work that I posted. I will not repost if for you, it's in a previous post for you to read to your heart's content. See, there is a difference between...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Why don't you tell us what they decompose to when heated? And also the basic mechanisms to form them... And, again, answer the original question... which of these release oxygen in a reductive atmosphere? Since you know that heat will decompose various things your knowledge of o-chem must...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    You just post a whole bunch of nonsense. Just complete and total nonsense. You want to talk philosophy of science? Or epistemology? Go ahead, I've taken classes in those as well. Here's some basic philsophy of science - fallability is a cornerstorne of all scientific knowledge. There...
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    The more memos that are released...

    Oh, I completely agree. September 11 showed us that we can't remain passive in the face of terrorist threats to our well-being. We needed to be proactive and go after terrorism root and branch which is why... We should have gone after any country that finances terror, which is why we...
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    How do we solve the current quagmire in Iraq?

    His "opinion" has cost the lives of 1700 other Americans. Hell, it's just an opinion, it's not like people are actually getting shot at or anything? Nothing is more pro-family than killing a husband and father over a pack of lies. And applauding the people who lie to you. While other...
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    How do we solve the current quagmire in Iraq?

    That's the best you have? Human shields for what, insurgents? Why would I want to get in the way of the military doing their job? No, I support the troops by not lying to push them into an unnecessary war and then failing to properly plan for it nor give them the right equipment. But...
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    How do we solve the current quagmire in Iraq?

    I have one idea. I volunteer cwjerome, CAD, Rip and a few others as infrantrymen. They believe so strongly in Bush's glorious war and the righteousness of freeing Iraqis, it is quite obvious that their recruitment papers got lost in the mail. So I'll resend them so they can go and really...
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    Jeb Bush sinks to a new low. Jeb bush wants probe into terri schiavo's collapse.

    I'm missing the point Rip. That's what I said... no one knows what happened. What it underscores is the value of a medical history, basically interviewing the patient and trying to accurately understand how their disease developed. That is impossible with a patient who is in her condition -...
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    Jeb Bush sinks to a new low. Jeb bush wants probe into terri schiavo's collapse.

    Seeing as to how I kind of beat on you in another thread I thought that I would take a minute to honestly answer your question. In my medical opinion... The term "heart attack" is very deceptive. Traditionally a heart attack is what we call an MI, or myocardial infarction, where the...
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    Did Bush mislead nation to war? UPDATE:*50,000+* Responses -up to 95% now

    Why would Churchill who: a) was being outright decimated by the Nazi blitzkrieg b) isn't even on the same ocean or flight route as Japan c) focused entirely on surviving the Nazi assault spend time trying to decode Japanese communications? Especially before they had broken the Nazi...
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    Did Bush mislead nation to war? UPDATE:*50,000+* Responses -up to 95% now

    No, he did not. In fact the Japanese were still in negotiation with the US at the time of the attack; FDR was reluctant to become involved in the war at all and was thus far content with mere arms smuggling to Britain. He would enter the war when Britain was in danger of being overrun by the...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    I know what you mean. I know this one guy who seems to think that his world will fall apart unless he clings to pre-ordained beliefs. I mean you ask him simple little questions about his science - its predictions, its methods, its results - and all he does is shift the issue; you can't ever...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Well, you are simply wrong. It is not about fairness. It is about what is true, what is good science, and what is factually and intellectually honest. It is not fair that we don't teach our children that the Earth is flat, like some people believe. There are objective scientific...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Yeah, I am. We don't have specific, discrete classes in evo phys or evo anat but you can't escape evolution, it just creeps in everywhere. I'll give you an example. I was on rounds in the hospital where we discuss cases (I am a 1st year so I get a lot of research and not much responsibility...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    I'm not going to waste more time but again you clearly don't understand NMR (and thus do not understand chaos theory). "Whichever is more bonded" is your answer? That is pathetic. If I turned that kind of work in for a grade I would have gotten a huge F. And TMS is a solvent which has H...
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    Draft Question

    No, it's not. We're not talking recreational chess here - we're talking war. There are good, decent Americans who are getting shot at and blown up in Iraq. Our military needs new people desperately. Sure, it's easy to sit here and enjoy fantasies of American empire when you get to go send...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    No, it seriously is not. It is both relevant (you claim to know something about chaos theory, NMR depends on the most basic of chaos theory) and it is definitely not a trick question. I'll even give you a hint: the answers are none, all, and the outer. Now it is simply a game of mix and...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Not only that but you can't prove that Jeebus doesn't love me and keep me on the Earth with his loving hand, holding me firm. Where you see chaotic nonsensical gravity I see a warm hug from Jeebus, and if we work to understand Jeebus more we might discover more about gravity... And it's only...
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    Draft Question

    You know what else you're not? You're not in Iraq! If you believe in this war so much go and enlist - the military desperately needs new people.
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    That is not a fair question because those evil, athiest, elitist scientists just refuse to talk about gravity without using equations and calculus. Why can't they just accept that "stuff falls back down" is all that we'll ever need to know about gravity? So what if they have field...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    LMK, you are simply a lost cause. I'm not going to even try anymore. I would have some respect for you if you actually knew something but all you do is what you accuse others of wrongly doing - throwing around technical jargon to disguise ignorance. I have no idea what the chaos theory of...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    It's no big deal. It's like the 2nd or 3rd time that I've exposed Rip as the willfully ignorant fool that he is... just give him a little test that is google proof and suddenly he is no longer an accomplished scientist with a meaningful understanding of pre-biotic earth. As for LMK... he...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Then keep religion out of the science classes. ID is not science, pure and simple. It has no place in any kind of science education and you have no right to deprive other people's children of a decent science education because evolution offends your religious beliefs.
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    What if there is no Q or J? That is what you refuse to admit, that maybe there is no God at all. That is why you are being intellectually dishonest - regardless of anything else you cannot permit there not to be a god or a reason. I will gladly accept God as soon as he offers some kind of...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    So your problem is that complicated science isn't simple enough to explain to the layman? Oh teh noes!!!! We understand magnetism perfectly well. We really do. We know it so well that we can build MRI machines to look inside your body and diagnose disease. Sure, the layman can't...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    My ignorance of what? What am I being ignorant about? It's not understanding how something might work - it is understanding how somethind does work. And to sit there and claim "divine intervention" when you, yourself, are ignorant of the science behind something is what is so blatantly...
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    Autospy finds Terri Schiavo not subject to trauma, brain 1/2 normal size at death

    And you got your MD from where? Because what you have just said is completely and totally wrong. Basically every little part. First of all - her brain shrunk prior to the PEG (feeding tube) being removed. Here is her CT (brain picture): Brain Schiavo Brain CT Going without food...
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    School district in MI votes tomorrow night whether or not to allow ID

    Why don't we simply state the obvious. Some of us here are scientists with actual educations in science and some of us simply have no clue. If you are asking about the theory of evolution, and whether it belongs in a science class (and likewise for ID), don't you think that you ought to know...