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  Do you think any animals will ever reach human intelligence?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  if all life was truly random, then what happened that allowed humans to it's current intelligent state, do you think non humans could and will reach that in the future?

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  I'm wondering how many people get their natural history information from Disney.
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  Do you think any animals will ever reach human intelligence?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  if all life was truly random, then what happened that allowed humans to it's current intelligent state, do you think non humans could and will reach that in the future?

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  No
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  God is Real in Principle

  by looter in

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  now the majority of people nowadays do no go by the hope of old times.

  now the reason for this is important and goes beyond mere words.

  our culture sees ethics especially national or civil politics as the rules and standards by which we guide ourselves.

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  Your verbose treatise confuses absolute morality and objective morality.

  The christian believes in a Platonic essential good out there somewhere against which everything must be measured. It is a childish desire that atheists have outgrown.

  It also leads to worse sort of depravity. Christians appeal to the bible as a source of knowledge about absolute morality and are forced to become apologists for slavery, rape and infanticide. I have personally had many christians explain to me why slaughtering thousands of babies in cold blood was a moral good when god commanded it.

  This sort of morality is nothing more than ethics by divine fiat and is directly responsible for the greatest crimes in human history.

  On the other hand moral truths do exist. Right and wrong are not personal opinions like the best flavour of ice cream. The choice between absolute morality and relative morality is a false dichotomy.

  Objective morality is about the well-being of conscious creatures. It is this post-enlightenment insight that has led to the greatest progress in human ethics in recent decades.
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  Cofty I am posting my response to your challenge, Soai saying he solved the puzzle is not relevant to the challenge you assigned me.

  My challenge was to explain something you had written in simpler language and show how it refuted the significance of Soai's experiment. If you now accept that Saoi solved the puzzle of homochirality then there is no need.

  If you don't, then there is probably nothing more to be said.
  
  
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  Imagine that there is a very real chance you could be shot by the police without provocation.

  "Imagine" being the key word.

  Once again - A new study has been published by Harvard University’s Rolando G. Fryer Jr. that shows there is no evidence that blacks are more likely than whites to be shot by cops...
  
  
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  When victim culture meets virtue signalling facts can be such an inconvenience.
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  cofty

  Soai didn't stop studying this topic after his successful experiment in 1995. He has published more papers on the link between autocatalysis and homochirality since then.

  Here is a recent example from 2014...

  Asymmetric Autocatalysis of Pyrimidyl Alkanol and Its Application to the Study on the Origin of Homochirality - Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki, and Arimasa Matsumoto

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  Amplification of enantiomeric excess (ee) is a key feature for the chemical evolution of biological homochirality from the origin of chirality..

  Soai goes on to describe that he started with a mixture where the difference between the two types of chiral molecule was 0.00005%. At the end of the autocatalytic reaction that difference had risen to more than 99.5%.

  One type had been amplified 630,000 times while the other had increased by a factor of less than a thousand.

  The source for this paper is also a highly credible journal - The American Chemical Society.

  The test for a good scientific experiment is whether it can be replicated. Multiple examples by Soai and by other labs have confirmed the validity of his results over the past two decades.
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  A new study has been published by Harvard University’s Rolando G. Fryer Jr. that shows there is no evidence that blacks are more likely than whites to be shot by cops. Fryer, an African-American economics professor, characterized the results as “the most surprising result of my career.”

  Commentary on study here...

  NBER Source and link to pdf here...
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  Clickable Link Function

  by cofty in

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  hi simon - the site seems to be stripping out links.. can work around it by pasting the url but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text.

  is it a temp glitch?.

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  Thank you Simon.

  I was linking to an article on Nature.com in Kate's thread and it all seemed to work but when I came back to the page the link code had all been stripped out.

  Will let you know if it recurs. Cheers
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  Clickable Link Function

  by cofty in

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  2. tech-support

  hi simon - the site seems to be stripping out links.. can work around it by pasting the url but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text.

  is it a temp glitch?.

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  cofty

  HI Simon - The site seems to be stripping out links.

  Can work around it by pasting the URL but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text. Is it a temp glitch?