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Okay, technically you're right... but given that the last starts would have sputtered out in only 10^15 years I don't think the black hole popping is an imminent danger.

No one with any knowledge is describing it as a threat to us. It's just a collapsed star, it can no longer twinkle prettily, but as an advantage it can't explode either. Apophis and AGW are both very real and measurable physical phenomena. We shouldn't currently be worried about Apophis, but...

It's different to homosexuality because those terms apply to different things. Someone's status as transgender doesn't define what gender they are sexually attracted to. For example it's not uncommon for someone who was assigned male at birth, but identifies as a transgender woman but is still...

I wasn't discussion the details of acceptance rates... but I did present an example of a physical trait that was previously strongly discouraged then not and the perceived number increased. As I said, it was an analogous example. Why would you expect there to be 100 years of data of acceptance...

Except male and female are designations with varied and complex exceptions. The vast majority of humanity are one of two: 1) Man, small gametes, XY chromosomes 2) Woman, large gametes, XX chromosomes However those are not actually exhaustive in descriptions of humanity. Aside from transgender...

Not reasonable. I think the accusation of it being likened to a contagion would require some form of evidence. An example of an analogous phenomenon.

Allowed to be open about it and allowed to be acknowledged as a possibility.

It's not very common, it's just much more visible in our interconnected society... but an easy explanation is that it's not getting people immediately locked up or killed for indecency or sodomy.

It's based on detailed long term studies on patients and their reactions to therapy, as well as social, medical and surgical treatments, Just like many other medical treatments it's impossible to treat the condition without the subjective input of the patient. There are a multitude of...

Dinosaurs are descended from egg laying reptiles who are descended from base amniotes, the egg laying ancestors of both mammals and reptiles. If you look you can see that other vertibrates, fish and amphibians also lay eggs, but not the hardened variety of egg laying amniotes. This is the...

In the mathematical sense, no scientific theory is ever proven. But in the common use, of "demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt" then evolution has absolutely already been proven. Unless you can demonstrate the barrier to variation, then we have no reason to assume this to be true. The owl...

The point is that the function of proteins depends on their environment and that mutations of the DNA that generates can change the proteins... to potentially increase or decrease the effectiveness of the system they are a part of. As for an example, well DNA is a perfect one... there is no...

Demonstrated by patterns of genetics and modelling. Evolution is just about statistical advantage over large populations and large times.

Organic chemistry and polymerisation are found naturally accross the universe. The codes found in DNA are simply chemical reactions of their make up. Random chaos can increase complexity of chemical structures... allowing for the development of the codes in question without any concious design.

No one I know if is proposing the path to life via bleach and rocks. The obvious path is via naturally occurring amino acids and other carbon based structures that can poliminerise and even form self perpetuating molecules without the intervention of life. The proposal that life could from...

I studied some geology at university, so I have enough academic understanding to understand the scientific evidence for the billions of years of events that contradict the literal interpretation of Genesis.

Designed items don't fall into nested hierarchies. As I suggested earlier: A car designer doesn't have to invent a separate recipe for the tires on a truck and a car after the two lines have separated. This is not the case with life. But the more significant factor are the non coding DNA and...

Except that's a ridiculous semantic game. We are not using designer in a loose metaphorical context, we are using designer as an alternative to an undirected process like mutation and natural selection. Neither did I. Darwin's book describes how the environment encourages or discourages...

Actually they have. Are you aware of paternity tests? The exact same principle can be used for comparative genetic comparisons between extant species and this can indicate a pattern of relatedness. Fossil and structural analysis demonstrates the same tree pattern of relatedness that is...

We have a lot of bats.