As far as language is concerned they're both "it" just as a piece of rock is one. Abortion then isn't murder. Just as you take off your shoe and turn ...
I was trying to offer you a viable model to explain the emergence of DNA, replication mechanism and all. DNA bears some similarity to crystals and in ...
I see. Here's a question that seems relevant to your point: What is the nature of and I quote "comprehend their own death"? Doesn't the comprehension ...
Amazing video is all I can say. I did some research of my own and it seems one geneticist, a Sydney Brenner (1927 - 2019) had a fondness for making th...
:up: I don't understand one thing: In the article you gave a link to, it says junk DNA are parsitic but DNA replication is supposed to be high precisi...
Why do we assume that punishment/reward is not part of a deterministic view of crime and morality? After all, moral/immoral acts cause in us a desire ...
I'm going to stay within the Islamic context: In other words, people identify Allah with mercy in a very deep sense. This doesn't square with Mr. Zaki...
So, given a choice between preventing Hitler's parents from meeting and stopping his birth OR killing the infant Hitler, you would choose...??? :chin:...
My two cents: I think the whole idea of justice comes apart at the seams when we give it some much required thought. Two wrongs don't make a right and...
There's more than one way to skin a cat. That aside, what bothers me is the following: Not straying from the OP's intent, say that the nonexistence of...
Biochemistry? Physiology? Can't life be viewed as a computer with different programs being executed on it? The hardware is the body and the software i...
That doesn't do much good for anyone trying to prove the existence of God. Heaven and Hell represent our heart-felt hopes and our deepest fears respec...
Looks like a contradiction to me. The human = the end product. Not really, judgement involves evidence, guessing doesn't. No well-respected scientist ...
:chin: However, note that after shaking the box, you're relying on information content of the bills themselves and nothing else to tell them apart but...
Can you tell them apart before you put them in the box? No. Can you tell them apart after you put them in the box? No In my humble opinion, there was ...
That means there's no clear-cut definition of genes and ergo, genomes. Biology, unlike physics, appears to be more fluid. Perhaps the issue will be re...
:up: I don't know. I'm trying to find some way for a smaller genome to pack more punch than a larger one. Yes, I've been trying to get my hands on a g...
Since you brought up language, there appears to be a way in which a smaller genome can produce greater complexity than a bigger one. Imagine 4-bit gen...
Here's a crazy idea... There was, a good many years ago I believe, a somewhat popular theory, going by the name Ancient Alien Hypothesis. The general ...
I'm not saying the abortion debate is a non-issue. All I'm saying is that the open hostility between pro-choice and pro-lifers belies the underlying h...
Are you saying it would make you feel secure if it were permissible to kill people older than 1 year of age? If you are then you're contradicting what...
Can something be both objective and subjective? OPTICAL ILLUSIONS: Shepard's Table https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Shepard_tables....
Right! There's epigenetics but aren't you forgetting the fact that genes that function epigenetically are just the tip of the iceberg? What about the ...
That's a mouthful but look at what you're saying: 1. If it were illegal for anyone over the the age of 1 to die then it wouldn't cause me to feel inse...
This just goes to show time is unreal - lacking an objectivity of its own. If one's state of mind can affect how time flows, it suggests that time, if...
The point is the reasons you proffered - no one to mourn, painless death - is applicable to people other than just babies and that's what should cause...
Thank you. My two cents: 1. I'm intrigued by the fact that no two vascular trees are identical. However is a vascular tree an instance of complexity? ...
Contradiction! If the two $100 bills were indistinguishable right from the beginning then how would you know whether: 1. Both are real 2. One is real ...
Coming at this issue from the perspective of the abortion debate, if there's controversy regarding abortion as to whether it's murder or not, doesn't ...
I find it hard to believe that the environment determines phenotype in an immediate sense i.e. in real time. Perhaps as part of evolution - a slow pro...
To tell you the truth, the difference between atheists/humanists and theists on the abortion issue is only superficial, a result of the difficulty in ...
There's no difference between an atheist and a theist in terms of morals. All that's happened between the two of them is the unceremonious removal of ...
I think time is unreal for the simple reason that it's relative according to the much bandied about theory of relativity of Einstein. The idea of rela...
It being true that in most cultures, morals - the only thing keeping us from a life a of crime - comes from religion, I suggest we devote our efforts ...
In what sense are you using "degrees" here? In a fuzzy logic sense where a continuum of values exists OR in a discrete sense in which case the notion ...
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