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What's God's course passing grade? Can you still get in if you get 50%?

In a way, I am responding to an earlier comment about how "hard" scientists were more likely to be atheists. As a student of economics, I have to protest: You can't stare at a graph explaining the relationship between monetary mass, interest rates and inflation for very long without losing sight...

Or would they have stopped to ask for directions?

I guess I'm just confused about the terms used. So classic example; An American firm sells electronics to Brazil. So the American firm gets paid in Brazilian currency. The U.S.' net export rises (logical), but since XN=NOC, so does the net outflow of capital. Since money is going into the U.S...

Let's say compared to Iraq at the time of Desert Storm 2 - (I think it's two, I mean Bush Jr.)? As far as we know, of course.

...to Alpha Centauri? Well, I didn't mean directly into Alpha Centauri. I meant into the system Alpha Centauri.

I read this in a book a long time ago. It was about astronomy, but it was generally scientific, although a work of vulgarization. (I am sorry, this was a long time ago. My memory of what I read is a bit hazy). But there was one claim in that book that stated either a) Amino acids, or even B)...

...market failures? Should I let the Republican party know that this heresy is being circulated to economics students?

Picking the minds of Christians some more. Biblical: Man is in God's image. I ask: How can the creation of a perfect Being be imperfect? The very possibility of sin entering the world, compounded to God's prescience would imply God made the world imperfect in the sense that not only did he...

I'm addressing this to atheists, but I take responses from another quarter. If you don't like the idea of someone suggesting your God may, or may not exist, you might be offended if you read any further. My lawyer told me to say that. Anyway... We know that many ancient and still-existing...

Hi. Despite years of studying chess, I am still a 1500 player. I've been studying a lot lately, and it looks like these days, I'm playing more like 1600 - 1650, but still no more. I figure at this rate, becoming an expert, let alone a master, would take me another 20 - 30 years of hard work...

...unique in a given region? Or are they universal to all bees in the world? In other words - is there evidence to suggest the system is entirely innate, or do we find "cultural" variations in different parts of the world?

That not exactly true. Go further east.

So the Devil appears to this ambulance-chaser lawyer in NYC. The Devil says to him: I know you want more! I offer you to become the greatest attorney ever! You want to do corporate law? You want a place on the board? You can have that. You want to go into private business? You want your own...

Iado is what you would most likely study today. It is the art of drawing the sword. It also involves basic movements for quick responses from different positions. You can forget about training with actual katanas against live opponents for obvious reasons.

great conspiracy of evolution? And what incentive did they give you to keep it going? Also, wouldn't it have been simpler to just present real findings instead of making up a whole coherent system to support this idea? And is the Church of Satan a major donor to University Biology Departments?

I suppose. If you're going to have a discussion about science, it should remain on the intellectual level. But to be quite frank with you, I also think arguing creationists is ultimately a waste of time. Creationism is not an honest scientific position. Those who hold on to it are less...

Because they have an exclusivist, sectarian mentality. It's the same mentality that makes a club popular, as long as you have ridiculous line-ups, and somebody is being kept out of the club. It makes you feel better about yourself being let in, while other people are left out. Is it any...

Because they have an exclusivist, sectarian mentality. It's the same mentality that makes a club popular, as long as you have ridiculous line-ups, and somebody is being kept out of the club. It makes you feel better about yourself being let in, while other people are left out. Is it any...