Best comment: we share about 98.5 percent of our DNA with the chimp. But we also share about 75 percent of our DNA with the pumpkin.
A coffee cup is just ceramic. Its what goes in the cup that makes it a cup of coffee.
Its interesting, and vital, to understand the mechanics and chemistry of what it means to be human. In the end, though, our mortal shell is not what makes us human, its the spirit that inhabits it. That’s a little harder to define and explain, but it is what makes all the difference.
Steyn. A National Treasure.
Or, as Dr. James Watson put it, Crick became a little crazy when he started to realize that the discovery of the structure of DNA does not explain the origin of life at all.
I've had the fortune of seeing Dr. Watson speak twice. He is, IMHO, a better scientist than Crick, because when they won the Nobel prize, he continued his career of solid research. Crick, OTOH, went off on a bizarre tangent in which he was hypothesizing about life starting somewhere else and then being seeded here--which, even if true, would not answer the question of the origin of life.
Something as small as DNA so intricately woven screams Intelligent Design.
His militant atheism was good-humored but fierce, “
It HAS to be fierce to drown out anything the operator doesn’t care to hear.
What if we could get all our legal immigrants who were like Mark Steyn? I do not know where it would take us, but the journey would be pleasant, humorous and memorable.
Man and Uberman.
An atheist funeral.... all dressed up and nowhere to go.