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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Are we still evolving?

    Kabloozleman, I think your race theory falls apart when there's less genetic variance between the "umbrella races" than within them, as you'd find most particularly with what you refer to ...

    May 3, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Weapons on Planes

    Keep in mind, getting a gun license doesn't mean you're a qualified law enforcement official. I can imagine one idiot pulling a gun on a flight because he didn't like ...

    May 3, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Are we still evolving?

    I think it's a mistake to apply preconceptions of strength, fitness, and "more" or "less" advanced to evolutionary systems. The idea of "fitness" is completely reactive to the environment the ...

    May 1, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: I'm tired of religious people getting all up in my grill.

    Karzkin Heresy "an opinion of private men different from that of the catholick and orthodox church" [Johnson], c.1200, from O.Fr. heresie (12c.), from L. hæresis, "school of thought, philosophical se

    Apr 29, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Your Views on Homosexuality

    I suggest you move on from these personal comments.

    Apr 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: I'm tired of religious people getting all up in my grill.

    Uldin "I'd rather say "not exactly conservatively biblical. The message of the Gospel talks to individuals in different ways. For example, there are many serious theologians whose interpretation leads

    Apr 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Your Views on Homosexuality

    "It all started when she backslide from being a Christian. She then got into going to gaybars with gay friends, then out of the blue, she's bi. She isn't in ...

    Apr 26, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Effects Of Teen "Sexting" (Dont Do It!!!!)

    "I think child pornography is wrong, yes. But I don't think you can really call it child pornography when they've given their consent or even sent it out themselves." Can ...

    Apr 22, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is a boy who openly supports terrorism right or wrong?

    From the limited access we get in the first source to the kind of support being offered, I'd say this is acceptable, if dissappointing. I'd draw on John Stuart Mill's ...

    Apr 22, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: abbility to carry a knife at all times

    ""HA! That's what Stand Your Ground is for!" "Not every jurisdiction has that law"" I assume that the original quote may have been a little tongue in cheek given the ...

    Apr 17, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: abbility to carry a knife at all times

    "Certainly, but it is very easy for the prosecution to cast doubt on a claim of self-defense, especially if the defendant was already armed before the incident." This is a ...

    Apr 16, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: abbility to carry a knife at all times

    4. Defendants don't carry the criminal burden of proof for self-defence. They carry an evidentiary burden (very low, their client's testimony is enough), the prosecution bears the burden of proof ...

    Apr 16, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Who would you save?

    "That's why children don't usually get another cat after Fluffy dies" Really? My family have had 5 cats in the last 15 or so years, and most of my friends ...

    Apr 16, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Vampires and Werewolves

    Transubstantiation.

    Apr 16, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Who would you save?

    This is essentially a debate about human exceptionalism, framed fairly interestingly against a backdrop of animal rights and personhood. In regards to the question of the soul: 1:26 of Genesis ...

    Apr 12, 2012


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