"What really impressed people with Darwin's work was not so much the idea itself, but the book," says Endersby. "It was the fact that there was so much detail, so much evidence." And now there is even more.
- Howard Abrams
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America the first nation to be founded on "ideas", and the freedom to disagree is certainly one of those. The article also demonstrates the prejudice against intelligence.
- Howard Abrams
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Carbon-based, as opposed to silicon base. But some DNA/RNA-like replicating machinery kicks in, anything is possible. And intelligence? Completely superfluous and un-necessary, and so I think it is rare.
- Howard Abrams
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Does the amount of words using "frowny vowels" make people who speak that language more frowny in general, or does a language have enough variation to cancel out the effect.
- Howard Abrams
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The idea is that 65 mya, active volcanoes may have heated the planet a little bit, which helped create algae blooms, and the toxic algae may have played havoc with the food chain. This sick planet was then hit by a big rock...
- Howard Abrams
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Amy Wallace is one of my heroes. I hope her rational and scientific "conversation" helps ease the apprehension of some parents. - http://www.npr.org/blogs...
A year before my kid's first pediatrician died, he mentioned that the reason why parent's are concerned about vaccines may be due to not witnessing the horrible deaths the vaccines have almost wiped out.
- Howard Abrams
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Why this matters is we need to know where statements like this can be placed given our separation of church and state. For on one hand, atheism is the opposite of religion, and therefore, there may not be a need to segregate it in the same way. Although I would tend to think that most Americans would place "atheism" as a religion, whereas most adherents wouldn't.
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