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It's both OK and respectful. If we were at peace instead of at war, those soldiers would be home with their families. I'd say wishing that kind of love and happiness upon them is one of the highest respects we can pay to people who need it most.

No, "God's Word" says it's an abomination and unclean- the same word it uses when saying that a menstruating women and any furniture she touches within 7 days need to be cleansed by a priest. I would take anything in the Book of Leviticus with a grain of salt- there's lots of other "wrong and...

Seconded, and with firsthand experience. My relationship with my wife improved substantially after I convinced her to start masturbating. It's MUCH easier to make her happy when both of us now know what it is that does the trick ;)

So its ok for you to do, because some other people do it even worse? Sorry, Christians aren't getting of the hook so easily. Christians are still intolerant.

If life begins at conception: Does that mean God is a murderer? If you count the (estimated) number of natural miscarriages, the number of fertilized embryos that die before bonding with the uterus wall is about 4 times the number of births that actually occur. Will you pass laws requiring...

The majority of current research shows that masturbation decreases the risk of prostate cancer. Why would something that's good for you be a sin?

I'd say it's because the news they are spreading these days isn't very good.

Because the Bible has so many authors, and says so many things (often contradictory things), how someone chooses to follow it and what aspects they choose to focus on says a great deal about their character.

If women can be Christian, then I'd think gays can be. The Bible spends a LOT more time talking about how women are sinful/carry original sin/are unclean/etc then it does abotu homosexuality.

My dad had green eyes. I have evolved to have brown eyes. Does that help you tell what we will look like?

Fish are antecedents of both, and thus, are neither.

That's not "cute", per se. "Aromatic" is more the thing.

There's really no way to respond to that. It's also off topic for Cr/Eo. Soooooooo... This thread is now about kittens. Kittens are cute.

That makes sense, because learning is not their goal.

There is some slight biblical support, in "render unto Ceasar" and all that, but the intent behind the verse is different from the intent behind the First Amendment. The verse is intended to make clear the difference between what you owe earthly rulers, and what you owe to God. The First...

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" That one is much less ambiguous- it seems to refer to sin in general, and not specifically the same sin. Add to this "Judge not, lest you be judged"and you have a pretty clear picture that Jesus is referring to sin in a general sense.

So much for absolute morality... its ok if God says so? Doesn't that seem, yknow, relative (as in, relative to God's mood)? I thought relative morality was a horrible, evil thing.

SWOOSH go the goalposts as they move across the field! You asked for mutations. You got them. You did not ask for spontaneously generated, unique protein codes. BTW, the apoaA-I mutation DOES code for a new protein. Not sure if the code for it is novel or not though. I'm nto enough of an...

It does. I'm quite jealous. Of the tetrachromacy, too.

In a nutshell: e-coli bacteria were kept in jars for a very, very long time., and only given 2 kinds of food. A teeny, tiny bit of Glucose, which they eat very well, and lots and lots of Cellulose, which they can barely eat at all. After about 20 years, the bacteria mutated to be able to eat...