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No, they aren't. Dreaded Anomaly Send a noteboard - 04/12/2010 10:01:25 PM
There is no reason that it should matter to me. I can let people believe whatever they want to when it comes to religious beliefs and respect them. Why not with scientific beliefs? The two are much closer than the proponents of either would be willing to admit. Would ever be able to bring themselves to admit. And why am I baiting you now? I don't know. I had not noticed I had this problem before. Time for some inner house cleaning it looks like. What I say I believe and what I am doing are not in alignment.


Believing in things because of evidence is fundamentally different than believing in things despite a lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary. In other words, the former is rational, while the latter is irrational.
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that is TOTALLY inappropriate LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 04:58:47 PM 884 Views
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Crazy awesome. nossy - 02/12/2010 05:07:49 PM 950 Views
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It's confusing, that's for sure. nossy - 03/12/2010 02:01:11 AM 794 Views
lol, or maybe not nossy - 09/12/2010 07:49:19 PM 1162 Views
So the movie Evolution was real! Stephen - 02/12/2010 05:24:16 PM 884 Views
Nice reference, but not quite. TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:32:04 PM 827 Views
Thanks for clearing that up Stephen - 02/12/2010 11:23:36 PM 935 Views
Wow. *NM* Gher - 02/12/2010 05:32:08 PM 498 Views
I love how it was found in a massively polluted lake beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 05:35:22 PM 821 Views
Dang. I thought it was naturally occurring. Missed the part where it was grown in a lab. Gher - 03/12/2010 02:16:16 AM 980 Views
The answer to your question is: Pretty damn cool. *NM* Nate - 02/12/2010 05:33:54 PM 482 Views
Goddamnit I am SO PISSED that I have a meeting at 2!!! Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 05:50:21 PM 782 Views
I won't pretend I know enough about biology to understand the impact of this ironclad - 02/12/2010 06:26:24 PM 940 Views
It's like finding a type of rock that eats laughter beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 06:51:15 PM 790 Views
... without coming down and dealing with the nasty stomach cramps. Joel - 02/12/2010 09:49:06 PM 986 Views
I think I had an ex once that was made of arsenic. *NM* Craig - 02/12/2010 07:10:57 PM 451 Views
Maris? *NM* ironclad - 02/12/2010 07:33:14 PM 494 Views
Well you are made of poison, so that makes sense. *NM* snoopcester - 02/12/2010 07:39:09 PM 454 Views
Curse you, poetic justice! Curse you! Craig - 04/12/2010 03:38:37 AM 976 Views
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I don't see why it couldn't be natural LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 07:22:49 PM 837 Views
They haven't mentioned anything saying it's not from Earth, I think beetnemesis - 02/12/2010 08:03:44 PM 952 Views
It was funded by NASA, I think Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 08:15:15 PM 973 Views
lols. *NM* LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 08:17:40 PM 468 Views
The bacteria in question is part of a known lineage Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 08:07:34 PM 1167 Views
see my note below LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 08:13:35 PM 945 Views
Maybe Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 08:23:16 PM 872 Views
it could be there are some in the lake naturally LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 09:00:42 PM 790 Views
Huh! I must have missed that part. *NM* Darth_Katie - 02/12/2010 09:05:15 PM 453 Views
No it isn't! snoopcester - 02/12/2010 07:39:34 PM 948 Views
I really didn't understand that, either. jh - 04/12/2010 10:44:51 AM 963 Views
So, apparently, this bacteria doesn't use arsneic for its DNA in its natural state? LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 08:06:02 PM 840 Views
While awesome, it's a bit of a problem. Ghavrel - 02/12/2010 09:04:22 PM 840 Views
Re: While awesome, it's a bit of a problem. TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:34:34 PM 777 Views
True, but I'm not "looking for" anything in particular, so I just like it *NM* LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 11:09:21 PM 487 Views
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Less cool a revelation than I was hoping, but certainly not a complete disappointment. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 10:35:33 PM 441 Views
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. It always seemed common sense to me that there are Tashmere - 02/12/2010 10:40:22 PM 988 Views
I think it just makes them happy that they can widen the parameters for life-sustaining planets. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 02/12/2010 11:00:31 PM 444 Views
yah. it's one thing to theorize, another thing to find something to hold true. LadyLorraine - 02/12/2010 11:10:23 PM 861 Views
It's much more than an educated guess. Dreaded Anomaly - 02/12/2010 11:59:18 PM 1021 Views
You can't "know" from this distance. Tashmere - 03/12/2010 03:13:05 AM 762 Views
Why not? Isaac - 03/12/2010 04:42:15 AM 1026 Views
obviously you have not learned to look at the back label on the car *NM* LadyLorraine - 04/12/2010 07:04:42 PM 425 Views
Yes, we can. Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2010 06:04:48 PM 1189 Views
The problem probably is with me. Tashmere - 04/12/2010 08:00:56 PM 837 Views
No, they aren't. Dreaded Anomaly - 04/12/2010 10:01:25 PM 851 Views
Depends on how you view evidence, no? Nate - 05/12/2010 04:50:11 AM 1089 Views
There are correct and incorrect ways to view evidence. Dreaded Anomaly - 05/12/2010 05:42:41 AM 793 Views
Are you baiting me to bait you? Tashmere - 05/12/2010 06:41:49 AM 1024 Views
I'm just carrying on a conversation. Dreaded Anomaly - 05/12/2010 07:26:39 AM 1027 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Tashmere - 05/12/2010 07:08:04 PM 810 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Dreaded Anomaly - 05/12/2010 07:56:43 PM 1001 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Tashmere - 06/12/2010 03:15:37 AM 962 Views
Re: I'm just carrying on a conversation. Dreaded Anomaly - 06/12/2010 09:18:51 PM 873 Views
Okay. Tashmere - 06/12/2010 11:22:44 PM 1040 Views
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It's neat, but I object to the circus act Isaac - 03/12/2010 02:52:46 AM 969 Views
yah, and it's kind of shooting themselves in the foot anyways LadyLorraine - 03/12/2010 09:10:21 AM 839 Views
xkcd ironclad - 03/12/2010 10:35:24 AM 1000 Views
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