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The Anti-Science Left
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| June 17, 2015
| John Stossel
Posted on 06/17/2015 4:21:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:21:16 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
> Species continue to evolve
Really? I musta missed something.
All that’s ever been observed is creatures adapting by expressing different genes that are already extant in their DNA, or mutating because of loss or damage to genetic information.
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:26:28 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: Westbrook
I stopped reading right there .... looked at the author's name .... shook my head .... and came here to reply ...
movin' on
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:33:24 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Westbrook
Yesterday I came across a youtube clip of a giraffe mama giving birth .... pretty fascinating
My attention was drawn away to the "adaption" concept that a giraffe is often used to explain evolution ..... and it occured to me ....
WHY .... would some tiny creature look up from whatever he was eating .... to a tree so miserably out of his reach .... and desire the leaves that he determined in his heart to access ..... and drag his entire extended family along with him ?
How many did he murder by starvation while the evolutionary process accomplished it's ends ?
Does he miss the easy pickin's of the ground smorgasbord that is now no longer available to him ?
Does he ever wonder ... "What was I thinking ?"
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:39:26 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Kaslin
“The Left” is about as scientific as Rachael Dolezal is black.
Global warming is an example, where it is claimed a majority of “scientists” (without defining what they consider a scientist) believe in AGW, as if there is a vote involved.
Science is not a popularity contest. It is not about PROCESS not mob rule, and the scientific process is absolutely corrupted by the advocates of AGW.
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:41:35 AM PDT
by
Wildbill22
(They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
To: Wildbill22
It IS about PROCESS...
My bad.
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:43:06 AM PDT
by
Wildbill22
(They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
To: Kaslin
...and some oppose stem cell research.They oppose embrionic stem cell research. Big difference.
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:52:44 AM PDT
by
sima_yi
( Reporting live from the far North)
To: sima_yi
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:54:21 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
To: Kaslin
Many on the left -- including a few of my fellow libertarians -- are paranoid about genetically modified organisms. These are crops that have DNA altered to make them grow faster or be more pest-resistant. The left calls that "playing with nature" and worries that eating GMO food will cause infertility, premature aging and a host of other problems. The fear makes little scientific sense. There is no reason to think that precise changes in a plant's genes are more dangerous than, say, the cross-breeding of corn done by American Indians centuries ago or a new type of tomato arising in someone's organic garden. Nature makes wilder and more unpredictable changes in plant DNA all the time.
The obvious difference is that GMO food that originates in a laboratory is engineered by a fallible human; whereas genetic modifications that occur in nature are engineered by an infallible God.
To: Kaslin
some times after reading an article like this i have trouble separating the left from the right i see every day
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posted on
06/17/2015 4:57:42 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
To: Kaslin
“Species continue to evolve regardless of what conservatives believe, and if conservatives ban government funding of stem cell research, private investors will continue the work.”
Well....No....Species continue to ADAPT within the Species, they do NOT become another Species.
And if you’re too clueless to acknowledge the difference between ADULT Stem Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells, you’ve disqualified yourself from comment. ESC Research will NOT continue using private funding because the private money knows there is NO POTENTIAL there.
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posted on
06/17/2015 5:01:51 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
To: knarf
Yes, absurd, isn’t it.
If anything, the giraffe is a showcase for God’s creation.
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posted on
06/17/2015 5:09:13 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: G Larry
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posted on
06/17/2015 5:10:54 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: Labyrinthos
Unless, of course, in the likely event that God is omnipotent and omniscient as well as infallible in which case he will have anticipated and fully accounted for human intervention.
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posted on
06/17/2015 5:28:46 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: Labyrinthos
Naturally occurring genetic mutations are infallible? Really?
To: Kaslin
He leaves out what may be the worst scientific ideas of the left: men can change into women and Caucasians can change into a different race of people. And that babies in the womb are not babies, of course. An oldie but a goodie.
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posted on
06/17/2015 6:13:44 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: Wildbill22
AGW is not about science ... that's why there are so many "science deniers" on the Left.
Members of a cult do not follow a PROCESS ... they just "worship" what their false gods tell them to.
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posted on
06/17/2015 6:15:56 AM PDT
by
glennaro
To: Kaslin; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; GOPsterinMA; ...
The new movie "Jurassic World," in which scientists tamper with DNA to create a super-dinosaur that gets out of control, doesn't just recycle ideas from the original "Jurassic Park." It recycles the same fears that inspired the novel "Frankenstein" 200 years ago -- the idea that if humans alter nature's perfect design, we'll pay a terrible price. But it's nature that is terrible. We should alter it. "Living with nature" means fighting for food, freezing in the cold and dying young.I hated the message of "Jurassic Park", that it was "wrong" to clone dinosaurs. OF COURSE you're gonna clone dinosaurs and put them in zoo if you could. Duh. No reason not too. I doubt any T-rex godzilla rampages would happen.
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:45:12 AM PDT
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Kaslin
There is no reason to think that precise changes in a plant's genes are more dangerous than, say, the cross-breeding of corn done by American Indians centuries ago or a new type of tomato arising in someone's organic garden. The changes are only precise if their entire effect - including the injection of the modified genome into the food supply over decades - is known.
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:50:14 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
To: nathanbedford
God allowed for the transgressions of Eden while still marking them out of bounds. The original sin was accounted for, but certainly wasn’t within his intent (as expressed by the Bible).
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posted on
06/17/2015 8:53:41 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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