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Re: Ridiculing religion     Mon, 11 May 2009 10:07:39 -0700 (PDT)
On May 11, 10:23?am, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > This could come across to religious people as a rather authoritarian > 'I'm right, you're wrong' approach. > Well, yes, but wouldn't it feel all familiar and comforting to them? ...

Apophenia     Mon, 11 May 2009 06:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia http://www.skepdic.com/apophenia.html http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Apophenia ...

Re: Ridiculing religion     Mon, 11 May 2009 01:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
On 10 May, 12:38, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...@orrery.e4ward.com> wrote: > pg wrote: > > > Yes. Still I do wonder about the 'kid gloves' treatment we are supposed to > > give to religion, as opposed to other issues. I mean, we can say what we > > like about astrology and crop circles without people throwing a w ...

Re: Ridiculing religion     Mon, 11 May 2009 01:08:25 -0700 (PDT)
On 11 May, 02:53, "Philip" <pp...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > "pg" <p...@alpesprovence.net> wrote in message > > news:4a06b256$0$17091$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr... > > > > > > > "Dave Smith" <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message > >news:de854af1-f3af-45ee-9283-fba2bda243f2@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com..> ...

Let's have a bloody good laugh!     Sun, 10 May 2009 22:35:26 +0100
Three doctors were at an international conference rehabilitation after major surgery. A German, A Frenchman and an English woman. The German said I recently got a heart from Spain and transplanted it into an Italian patient. Six weeks later he was out and looking for work. The Frenchman said I got a heart and a ...

Re: Ridiculing religion     Sun, 10 May 2009 01:38:35 -0700 (PDT)
On 9 May, 20:39, "pg" <p...@alpesprovence.net> wrote: > "Dave Smith" <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:fa5b3d24-f36c-40d3-b014-bed51b7c4596@j12g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... > On 7 May, 09:23, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > > >> The argument that ridiculing religion is a ...

Re: Artificial life 'could be created within five years'     Tue, 19 May 2009 21:36:07 -0700 (PDT)
On May 19, 10:02?pm, Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > . > > There's no guarantee that scientists would restrict themselves to > creating people with 'desirable' traits. ?Their motives might be > rather different from those of ?prospective parents. > Indeed not.. Science fiction has already exp ...

Circumcision     Tue, 19 May 2009 13:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/should-all-boys-be-circumcised-1687185.html Should all boys be circumcised? New evidence suggests removal of the foreskin can protect not just against HIV, but other diseases that kill millions. Now some doctors are reconsidering their views ...

Re: Artificial life 'could be created within five years'     Tue, 19 May 2009 13:02:32 -0700 (PDT)
On 19 May, 10:43, Mark.Wri...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: > Dave Smith <da...@dsmith60.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > > : I've been assuming that the creation of the experimental person would > : entail specification of their intelligence, health, personality, etc. > > This is already the case with artificial insemination. Pe ...

Interesting book on Chinese manufacturing     Tue, 19 May 2009 11:32:56 -0700 (PDT)
Poorly made May 14th 2009 From The Economist print edition Why so many Chinese products are born to be bad THE recent scandals about poisoned baby milk, contaminated pet food and dangerous toys from China have raised questions about manufacturing standards in the country that has become factory to the world ...


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