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Category: Science
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Numbers, big numbers… are difficult to imagine. In your mind you can imagine ten people standing in a row… maybe a few more, twenty, thirty… but then when you get up to say one hundred, envisioning a hundred people standing in a row is more difficult. The concept might be grasped, but the vision, the…
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In the January/February issue of Skeptical Inquirer Amardeo Sarma founder and chairman of the German skeptics organization GWUP has a short piece that is critical of the new IPCC report on Global Warming. The report is available at http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ The report indicates that past emissions are already adequate to cause a rise in global temperature…
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Circumcision… Why the controversy? Circumcision was common but not all encompassing among ancient Semitic peoples. The reasons for it are not known with solidity. Many think it began as a religious rite or rite of passage for boys into adulthood. In ancient times it was also thought to aid cleanliness. The first medical doctor to…
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How did evolution produce birds? From an article in Reuters it seems dinosaurs were the result of “shrinking” a dinosaur for 50 million years. A recent story, source not known, reported that feathers have been a more common feature of dinosaurs than previously thought. Not used for flight, they were possibly for insulation or display.Gradual…
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Various postings I have seen on Facebook have asserted, actually asserted, health benefits in smoking Marijuana. It is, I admit, a proven fact that marijuana can inhibit pain in some suffering individuals, but, they need not smoke it. Some of the short-term effects are: Rapid heart rate Increased blood pressure Increased rate of breathing Red…
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Abiogenesis, the creation of life from non-living materials, is presently undergoing much scientific work. It is my understanding that presently scientists have been able to: manufacture the amino acids necessary produce RNA Cell walls They have yet to produce a cell that is self-replicating. It would seem that something is missing. Though scientists have life…
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