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Buzzby

IMHO, the recent craze to have everything you touch sterilized is the end product of a scare campaign from the good folks who make and sell all of those products. These are products that serve almost no purpose. Man didn't evolve in a sterile environment and we don't need a sterile environment in order to be healthy. In fact, our immune systems suffer when they don't get challenged - if you don't use it, you lose it.

Our bodies are quite able to deal with almost every pathogen in our environment, unless our immune systems are weakened by something. It makes sense to keep food prep areas extremely clean because bacteria transferred to food can multiply and cause food poisoning. It makes sense to clean your hands thoroughly after going to the bathroom because the bacteria associated with the lower bowel are very likely to cause food poisoning if they get into food.

I work with dogs all of the time. Only God knows where their mouths and paws have been. They lick me, sometimes on the mouth, and I'm constantly touching them around the mouth and playing with their feet (to desensitize them for claw clipping). I've been sick once in the last three years and that was a direct result of visiting my sister who had a bad cold.

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Bugsteak

If you are gay, or bisexual, we should get married.

'Cause that is what I've been trying to tell people who take it all far too literally.

dedbr

It can be both ways and I can be just as happy........ Why shouldn't everyone else?


Some Where In Ded Land.............

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Fryguy22

I'm a big believer in logic and while I believe in a higher power, I'm not sure to what extent. Logically, all we are made of is a compilation of atoms that were, by chance, in the right place, at the right time, and in the right amount. However, who is to say something greater didn't set the stage so to speak. Its pretty amazing how much we know about the age of our universe, but to what scale in size is our universe? Maybe we are a grain of sand on the beach of another.

Merry-juana

the bigest thing I have toyed with is, who created God? Where did he come from?

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Trocisp

When people say that this experiment has been done in the past, they're correct.

But the experiment done in the past was done far, far differently. I mentioned a different article article (which, in my opinion is a bit better than the one provided, much more detailed) somewhere in my recent posts, actually. This is, while not a new experiment, an experiment that provides new, conclusive evidence.

E. Coli is partially defined as being unable to process Citrate. The fact that there is now a strain of E. Coli which has the ability is an extremely conclusive indicator that Evolution as a Theory is not only partially correct, but majoratively. It's an extremely unsurprising development (at least, if you've peek out from under your fundamentalist handbook in the last two thousand years... ), but a conclusive one none the less.

This isn't like a strain of bacteria becoming resistant to antibacterial agents, this is a bacteria developing whole new ways of ingesting substances.

This is evolution, this is not simple adaptation.

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Travkatx

Science can tell us how things work, but it can never answer questions such as why the Big Bang occurred, or why the first bacterium appeared.

Anyone else see what is wrong with that statement??? Its an ultimatum. We dont know everything. People will continue to hold the idea of there being a "higher all knowing being". Why? Because we are afraid, afraid of the unknown. It give people sooo much comfort to at least believe that someone out there has the answer. It is all really just a matter of perspective. Each individual person can only understand so much, and we want to understand. But in reality everything is infinite. What we understand as finite is only a small piece of a never ending puzzle.

The problem is that what exists can not be quantified by any type exaplaination that we can muster. Except for maybe one. Things are the way they are and they will change. When you do accept the idea of a single all-knowing being, who has always been and always will be, you run into the exact same problem as you did before, unless you close your eyes to logic. This problem is, how did god come to be? Your answer? He always was. Well then maybe we always were.

To me, everything and nothing, just is and is not, and shades of inbetween. It really is impossible to explain in words.

Sorry, I had to get deep on you all.

Hashishi

The greatest proof of evolution I've read of lies in the homeobox genes. These genes are sequenced (to paraphrase the DNA structure) A B C etc. In the development of all living beings, A activates genes which stem the growth of the head, B the abdomen and C the rear. This is obviously a completely lacking and non-technical description, but the fact that every animal on earth uses these same genes in foetal development in the same sequences is evidence of common descent--an animal from the pre-Cambrian period described as the 'round flat worm'.

@ Travkatx: we've got a pretty good idea of it. 'Interlocus contest evolution' is a theory which embraces the idea (demonstrated in the historical behaviour of the X and Y chromosomes to be in 'competition' with one another as regards their genetic development) that DNA is a code by which genes fight for survival. We are effectively just hosts for successful genes. Evidence for this is found in the amount of 'junk DNA' in our genome and of 'hulks'- sequences drowned in a flood of nonsense. There is evidence of genetic sequences imprinted into our genome by ancient viruses. From evolution to abiogenesis, it's all just a fantastically random and jumbled story of biochemical behaviour.

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ShivaSpaceTechnology

this is amazing this is not only proof of evolution but natural selection aswell there was however much proof of evolution already. fossils. cliffs and rock land masses shaped over time, and also carbon dating