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That horse left the barn long before Quentyn was born. They knew he had powers and he knew that they knew. Given that the lux field is supposed to be 1/10th what he's used to, I'm more concerned that he's draining his capabilities more than he might think. I don't think so. It will not drain him mo...

I think they need to stop using the term "partial-birth abortion" and call it by a more explicitly descriptive term: Full-term abortion. It's a procedure designed for the third trimester. My nephew was born at 26 weeks. He graduated from college a few years ago. No lingering effects from an extreme...

and again I submit the proposition: a compromise between pro and anti-abortion advocates. No abortion after brainwaves are detectable. Any of you pro-abortionists willing to go for it? The whole abortion debate for the advocates is about differing visions of who should be protected under the Consti...

I can't believe he just revealed his lux powers to them! :o This was NOT a smart move.....at all!!!! Şaaruuk That horse left the barn long before Quentyn was born. They knew he had powers and he knew that they knew. Given that the lux field is supposed to be 1/10th what he's used to, I'm more conce...

So prayer has no effect on what god does or dosn't do, that's my point. A great quote from my own bishop, "God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is 'no'." My daughter really, really wanted to stick her finger in the socket and was quite upset when, in a firm voice, I said "NO!" (I couldn't ...

If I could throw a deck of cards over my shoulder, and have them all fall to the ground in a neat grid from lowest to highest, that would be a damn impressive trick woudln't it? If I throw a deck of cards over my shoulder, and it lands in a jumbled pile. That's less impressive, what happened is exa...

With every event, whether you like it or not, God essentially asks, "Now that that's happened, will you (still) love me (more)?" It is up to the individual to answer. My answer just might be.."Why should I love you more now that you've let/made this happen to me?" If I were to become a quad like Ch...

Okay, but I wonder how paralyzing people or causing cancer fixes things... Let me make up a narrative of the afterlife: God, why did you give me cancer? You had two completely self-centered parents an unfeeling uncle, and 3 burned out nurses who were all headed straight to Hell and your disease and...

If there's a God who helps people, what about all the people that didn't get out of accidents so well? Death is a complex thing and a mystery. Why me, why him, why not them are things that haunt many people. The short answer is that it *is* a mystery and while we can understand sometimes, even the ...

Okay, tell you what. The moment god actually harvests grain for farmers, moves things for truckers, and makes soliders who fight in his name bullet-resistant, I'll buy that. Until then, I'm placing it solidly in the "Stuff the bible says that even christains admit isn't true" catagory. Taking stuff...

Lazerus wrote:

LoneWolf23k wrote:Well, at least you're not biased in your complaints..

I voted a straight democratic party ticket, but only because I believe the democrats, by virtue of being more passive, will be less active in screwing things up.

Boy are you going to have a surprising two years.

Luna_Northcat - If you read, and quoted, that first email, you surely read the second "typical" email noting that, contrary to the email you quoted, there was no actual space shortage. It was right below the section you quoted. So even severely limiting the evidence in the letter to strip out any ne...

The OSC letter is a poor guide on two counts: first, it is a preliminary finding which has as its main evidence emails, but it is quite obviously biased in Sternberg's favor from the get-go (read it!). Really, I think that investigation of abuse against an academic should be by a non-partisan and u...

I read the "we can't help you" note from OSC to Sternberg. It was not dropped for lack of merit but lack of jurisdiction for the very reasons that you cite. I think you can find a fair minded review here . The actual letter is available here both in html and pdf form and it is just factually false ...

That's also not what actually happened. The research paper I was referring to was by Axe (2000), although it is actually fairly weak support. The lit review I referred to was Lönnig and Saedler (2002). The paper you're referring to -- which supposedly got the editor fired -- was Meyer (2004), and I...

I can't take the modern bible as factually true. The incarnation of the bible as we commonly understand it has been translated through several languages, edited many times over, and even though it may have divine inspiration, was written by mortal hand. It contradicts itself in places. Two things: ...

The JAM wrote:If I may ask a simple question: in all of these beneficial mutations, are new species being produced by them, or are they variants within one species?

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html

They exist, but it's some pretty weak tea, see the first example.

If you want beneficial mutations, take a look at all the bacteria that have developped resistance to antibiotics over the alst few decades (and if you ask why we've only observed mutations in the most simple organisms, the answer is that they reproduce a lot faster, so there are more opporunities f...

Now, guess what's the Spanish word for "worship". I guarantee you that the distinction is made both in the national episcopal conference and at the Vatican which reviews such local conferences to make sure they don't run off the rails. The US is right in the middle of a process of correcting previo...

Catholics do not worship Mary. We adore her. That's the actual doctrine of the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, some Catholics, in violation or ignorance of that doctrine, go ... somewhat further than that. A few years ago, there was apparantly some agitation within the Catholic Church to declare Ma...