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The headline of this article is highly misleading. The cited paper does not demonstrate "how whales made... the shift ... from land to the sea". It's another "just so" story by the Darwin Cult. Readers should note all of this is speculative and protein/genome homologies prove nothing other than life's 'toolbox' can…

Federal spending on 'science' is so chock full of waste it isn't funny. But that is beside the point. The fact is, every single one of these 'cuts' are phony. These are reductions in the increases in spending set to occur.

Facts are a bitch. Thanks dipsy.

Somebody tell Al Sharpton there are amoeba who dress in black face. Damn racists.

I'm sure the Koch brothers caused this one too.

The greatest insults ever are to be found in USENET archives. To whit:

Breaking someone's nose and beating them with your fists in the manner Trayvon did to George Zimmerman can result in a felony battery charge in the state of Florida. Following someone is not an act where justifiable use of force is legal in any state.

He did. But read this quote from a Reuters story written shortly after the shooting: George Zimmerman: Prelude to a Shooting.

This had nothing to do with race. Shame on you.

Spell 'spot' aloud.

Say 'tin' ten times.

If a plane crashes right on the border of the US and Canada, on which side do they bury the unidentified remains of survivors?

Perhaps the author needs to listen to more Stossel. He might find he agrees with more than this...

Perhaps a better way for me to ask the question is "By what process do we determine what constitutes 'science'?"

Still don't buy it. Experience is the only factual thing we all have. Science is about formally explaining those experiences common to all of us by empirical means. And is a process and gives us one avenue of knowledge to truths about our experience. And that gives us facts as we know them, ontological…

mxyzptlk:

frewgull,

Squid:

All of this speculation is predicated on the materialist notion our selves are but the sum of our parts. If consciousness can be reduced to circuits, materialism wins.