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This is a serious plot flaw (at least up to episode 109).

could you CHOOSE to want to have sex with someone of your own gender. If you cannot choose to want gay sex, then why do you think a gay person can choose to want straight sex?

After all, who are we do destroy what G-d has created?

(Irony impaired invited to answer.)

In season one, episode one, (I'm watching it for the second time), while Dexter is standing at the door of Rita's apartment, you can see a rectangular object on her doorpost. It sure looks like a mezuzza. The Dexter Wiki doesn't mention it. Has anyone else noticed this?

It's not thumbs up or down, but I can't figure out what it is.

I can't remember any, and it really decreases the tension when I watch his movies. ;-)

Creationist theology comes from the biblical book of Genesis (which is why it's theology and not science.) It maintains that the variation of life on earth is explained by the different 'kinds' of animals that disembarked from Noah's ark, all other animals having been drowned in the flood.

This raises a few questions:

1. How did trees and other plants survive. Did Noah travel around the world to dig up saplings and then replant them when the waters receded?

2. If all living dinosaurs died at the same time (in the flood), why are they found in different strata with no one stratum predominating?

3. How did animals develop new characteristics after the flood (for example, Darwin's finches?) Would that not suggest DNA gaining new information via mutations?

4. Why the specific geographic distributions? The most obvious example is the kangaroo. Why are there not kangaroos all over instead of just in Australia?

We'll be going from San Diego to Connecticut. One dog weighs 18 lbs and the other weight 14 lbs, but they're about 14 inches tall so they won't fit under the seat of an airplane.

Newtonian Gravitist - someone who sees objects fall and thinks it's because of a force pulling them to the Earth (instead of thinking G-d pushes everything to Earth).

Atomist - someone who sees matter and thinks it's made up of tiny patterns called atoms (instead of thinking it's all solid).

Germist - someone who sees infections and thinks they are caused by microscopic creatures called germs (instead of thinking infections are a punishment from G-d).

Evolutionist - someone who sees the diversity of life on earth and thinks it's because all creatures evolved from a remote common ancestor (instead of thinking G-d created each 'kind' separately.).

Ask the president to support evolution taught in k-12 science class and

'creationism' only in non-science classes, eg comparative

religion.

http://wh.gov/lwVKS

And if you agree, ask your friends to sign as well.

Ask the president to support evolution taught in k-12 science class and

'creationism' only in non-science classes, eg comparative

religion.

http://wh.gov/lwVKS

And if you agree, ask your friends to sign as well.

Here is the actual Mayo Clinic Proceedings abstract - http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025...

If you want, you can click on the link for the full text.

Here's an except from the article.

"A risk-benefit analysis of conditions that neonatal circumcision protects against revealed that benefits exceed risks by at least 100 to 1 and that over their lifetime, half of uncircumcised males will require treatment for a medical condition associated with retention of the foreskin. Other analyses show that neonatal male circumcision is cost-effective for disease prevention. The benefits of circumcision begin in the neonatal period by protection against infections that can damage the pediatric kidney. Given the substantial risk of adverse conditions and disease, some argue that failure to circumcise a baby boy may be unethical because it diminishes his right to good health. There is no long-term adverse effect of neonatal circumcision on sexual function or pleasure"

Second question - why should I believe the inactivists instead of the Mayo clinic or the American Academy of Pediatrics.

published in the New England Journal of Medicine - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1400254. For those not in the medical field, the NEJM is one of the world's leading medical journals (in spite of it's local sounding name) and doesn't publish articles with political implications unless they have good support.

This article gives reasons why it should not be dismissed as a forgery.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4509237,...

An essential part of a scientific theory is that it is potentially falsifiable. For example, the finding of a chimera (mixture of two different organisms like a mermaid or centaur) would require a major revision of the basic aspects of evolution. Since no such chimera has been found, such a revision isn't needed.

My question for creationist is - is the idea of creationism potentially falsifiable. If so, what might disprove it. Because if nothing can disprove it, you can't call creationist study a 'science'.

Also, do you consider monkeys and chimpanzees to be separate 'kinds' or the same 'kind'.

I've seen creationists say that evolution within a 'kind' is possible, and they call this microevolution, but that evolution into an entirely different type of organism, which they call macroevolution, is impossible. My question is: exactly what is the precise definition of a kind? It isn't a species or even a genus since creationists say that Darwin's finches on the Galapagos are all of the same 'kind' even though they comprise different genuses (geni?).

Are members of the same taxonomic family all of the same 'kind'. You'd probably consider a tiger and a leopard to be the same kind, but consider a housecat, a bobcat, a puma, a mountain lion, a tiger and an African lion - are all of these of the same 'kind'. How about a seal and a dolphin - or a seal and a whale.

Do you have a specific definition of what a 'kind' is and what separates one from another?

I've heard from several Muslims that kosher meat is perfectly acceptable for Halal. However, I've also read that the ritual slaughterer must say the name of Allah during the process (which, obviously, a Jewish slaughterer isn't going to do.) Can someone explain this?

what do you think about this:

Families wanting to escape Christian militias bent on wiping out the Central African Republic's Muslim community have been braving lynch mobs at road blocks to journey 650km (400 miles) to Cameroon.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26274198