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  1. As a doctor you should know what this means.
  2. If you are still copeposting and pretending that this is some 7384d chess move by Trump read this and weep. https://www.rt.com/usa/384066-trump-in-letter-to-congress-on-syria/ Why was Trump elected again?
  3. Chemical and physical properties don't magically change just because something happens in Syria. Bana Alabed was twittering like a champ while Aleppo was under siege. She had no problems with internet access. I know about basic human biology. Do you? We agree on the false flag attack part. So far, the only source claiming it was Sarin is the Turkish intelligence agency MIT which itself has helped terrorists in the past. If it had been an attack with Sarin, the White Helmets themselves would have been exposed to it via their skin and as I showed, Sarin can get through the skin as a vapour and cause symptoms or death. Since it is denser than air, it is likely to be around after an attack.
  4. This is not how evolution works. You don't have to be the best, fittest, fastest to spread your genes. You only have to be faster than your competitor, more adapted and so on. If a tiger hunts three people you don't have to be an Olympic athlete to survive but you have to outrun the slowest guy. In addition, being smart doesn't equal self awareness. Orang Utans score higher than chimpanzees when it comes to the mirror test though they are less smart. It makes no difference from an evolutionary standpoint if an animal is an automaton and spread its genes or if it's a self aware automaton and spread its genes. It may well be that consciousness is a fluke that serves no real purpose for spreading your genes.
  5. Yes, I was in the military and we practiced putting on Hazmat suits. The "seven year old Syrian girl" had no problem twittering all the time while being in Aleppo. Of course it is. Why do yo think that you need Hazmat suits? Because it's so much fun to put them on? Also https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/sarin/basics/facts.asp Sure, but does that give the White Helmets special super powers that makes them immune to the effects of Sarin? Furthermore, if you add water, there is no sudden hydrolisis. The halflife time of Sarin in water at pH 7 is 100 to 150 hours. In an alcalic solution the halflife time is an hour. Learn some chemistry.
  6. In the aftermath of the Ghouta chemical attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attackAIPAC heavily lobbied members of congress to take action against Syria http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.545661 See also https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarinfor more details To this day it's still not clear who was responsible for that incident, though UN investigators got there the next day. This week's incident is more nebulous since the pictures that were taken make it appear unlikely that Sarin gas was used. Sarin reacts with the skin and using simple rubber gloves doesn't protect you. Spraying the victims with water makes Sarin airborn again and is likely to kill the helpers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attackfor details on how a real Sarin attack is dealt with. Furthermore, reports about the gas attack come from Turkey who have a stake in the game. They want to remove Assad who is in a loose alliance with the Kurdish tribes. In the past Turkey has helped IS by selling crude oil the Muslims stole, letting in fighters, treating wounded Islamists, and supplying IS with weapons.
  7. Trump's first use of force is to support the same guys who kill Europeans almost weekly now. Good job. The attack has shown that Trump can be controlled, first by removing Bannon from the counsel now with the strike.
  8. There is another mode of reasoning, abduction, which gives you a better perspective of reality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning That and using basic Bayesian insights can lead you to a coherent rational worldview. Not necessarily. You can believe those things without reference to Christianity. NRX people refer to it as Gnon, nature or nature's god. Those institutions have proven to be be resilient and succesful over a long time. This also means they are likely to be around for some time.
  9. It's a level below subspecies.
  10. So your position is that when you cut a pear with a knife, the pear splits itself in harmony with the knife and when you hit it with a hammer it gets smashed also in harmony with the hammer?
  11. Here we go http://www.itproportal.com/2015/02/26/youtube-still-loss-leader-google/
  12. Even people who don't believe in 'Newtonian materialism' see that a knive causes a pear to be split. Berkleyans believe that nothing exists outside the mind of god. Doesn't make it true. Which experience?
  13. Tough luck that electrodes can cause emotions.
  14. Axioms aren't considered true but self evident. Furthermore, there are several axiomatic systems leading to different forms of logic and geometrical systems.
  15. Isn't Tipler considered to be a crank physicist?
  16. Not race makes society, but mating strategies, the enviroment, and agricultural production. The Western society with the notions of individualism arose under very specific conditions. The Catholic Church prohibited cousins from marrying and there was manorialism. This lead to the formation of nuclear families that inherited within the family. That and the outgroup orientation and growing wheat which can be done by a nuclear family essentially led to a specific individualistic outlook. Though genetically similar, Eastern Europe took a different route because they were more clannish oriented and the Orthodox Church allowed for marrying cousins. In short this is why Eastern Europe was culturally and technologically behind the West for some time, though the IQ levels are similar.
  17. While I still haven't read the article (blame my lack of education in biology for that) it seems that you misunderstand falsifiability testing. You don't actively try to falsify a theory or try to prove that findings fall within a hypothesis. Rather, you have a look at null hypotheses. In other words, you don't measure the probability of a hypothesis with a test data (p (H|D)), rather you test p (D|H), the probability of the test data while assuming the hypothesis to be true. Significance testing allows you avoid the problem of induction and several objections Hume had.
  18. The OECD compares education levels on an international level with the PISA studies. https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwibmqmw1fPSAhVFXSwKHWTDC0kQFgg7MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.ihsn.org%2Findex.php%2Fcatalog%2F1526%2Fdownload%2F42445&usg=AFQjCNFezXsMNOAGrCW1KaYeU8_dakVH6Q&sig2=P05QwkjGHGes1rR1E8qPgQ&bvm=bv.150729734,d.bGg
  19. Lets see what biology has to say to that
  20. Islam is a Christian heresy, Nestorianism, with a few perks for desert people (raping, looting, beheading).
  21. This is exactly how a brain works. The brain is organized like a *nix system with subsystems doing one thing, and one thing only. In addition to that, there are some hardwired programs. If that was the case you'd have an epileptical seizure evey time you learn something. Because it's not an accurate description of the brain nor can society ever be parallel, unless you want to go back to primitive times with no division of labour.
  22. It wasn't meant that way. My understanding is that 8000 years is the under limit for that mutation to occur. It may as well have occured 20 000 years earlier. With that short of a timespan, genetic dating appears to be difficult. I have yet to read the article. But from what you wrote and based on my understanding of biologiy, the bottleneck scenario seems to be more plausible. Furthermore, I have to see how the article the similar mutations of indigenous people who didn't farm. It's a good explanation for lactose tolerance which seemed to have come up independently to lighter skin. Again, I have yet to read the article you posted.
  23. That's not how evolution works. Without the mutation, there was no selection pressure for white skin. Genes don't adopt to the enviroment. After there is a random mutation, selection pressure comes into play. Because eye color, hair color, and complexion are related to each other. They are not seperate phenomena. Tyrosinase is responsible for variations in those.
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