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I do not know anything about avian toxicity. Chocolate affects different species differently.

Hm. I'll take the humble path and correct my words. The things I know about evolution: A gene is expressed by a resultant gene product as protein or RNA. A gene sequence does not have to be equivalent to produce an equivalent gene product. The fact that heredity is the only known method of...

I have a hard time with anybody using Darwin's name in evolution in reference to creation aside from a history lesson. He was a ground-breaker in the thought that lead to modern evolutionary synthesis. Much of his work is inference and anyone using any proven evolutionary model to explain...

I understand what you're saying here and I agree. The problem is that I have a slightly jaded view having worked the field for years. Information is the greatest gift we can give to pet owners. Freaking them out unnecessarily has its cons as well. Not everyone who owns a pet can afford to do the...

Welcome home, Richard! I'm glad to hear you and your wife are doing well, I know that was a big point of contention among all that you were dealing with. I wish you luck with the meds. Antidepressants never did anything for me because I was simply intolerant of my condition and not...

Your opinion of what I should and should not be doing means nothing to me.

Fair. For as long as I can remember, I have always thought such questions meaningless. re #2: I believe in God as he has shown himself to me. My full explanation of this would be quite in-depth. I believe in God but it is not the same as the Christian God nor any religion that I know of. Evil...

I have never asked any of these questions

"I think therefore I am." I exist and the miracle of that event, regardless of its cause, means that I have the capability to take pride in that miracle. The necessity of identifying the cause is for the lost who need to either explain or thank that which made them be. I agree with Brand in...

I also wouldn't overstate it, because on the other end of the spectrum there are people that see that chocolate is toxic and will rush their dog into the emergency center after eating a single chocolate chip. One of the worst parts about my job is that we are a business and as a medical...

This is true. %cocoa content per volume versus the size of the dog is really a huge variable. There is also sensitivity/tolerance to take into account no different than alcohol in humans. Dogs can eat cheap, low-grade chocolate more regularly just as people can tolerate beer without too much...

OP starts a fire, everyone else adds fuel, OP never responds, nothing is accomplished but flame and destruction. Raise of hands for anyone who accepted anything anybody else said in difference to their considerations after 13 pages.

Exactly. Disorders are nothing but regular functions of the mind that anybody either can or does have. It's called a condition when those things are either chronic or impeding. I think one of the narcolepsy-type conditions literally has a requirement of how many events at a job or at home before...

I see it happening already. In psychology they give names to particular aspects of a disorders such as disassociation, derealization, depersonalization, etc. In philosophy we give names to different schools of thought like solipsism, determinalism, etc. Eventually we will be able to define a...

I hold their evil in equal regard in the sense that, by vote or market, those who disagree with the majority are stuck with the consequences of the majority's actions. The minority, for whatever value it is that they are in the minority of (wealth, culture, opinion, etc), will always struggle to...

To be fair, as someone with a mental disorder, there is a big push in psychology to eliminate the concept of a "good order." Mental disease is different because of biological or chemical differences. Mental disorder is the lack of those differences but, yet, a markedly different outlook and...

I think the eligibility requirements should be taken out. As a school program, the athletics department is just one department out of the entirety of the educational system. Similarly with the Robotics Club and the Culture Abroad Society, the school offered a program by which students had...

haha. I'll agree to let this go on the premise that we cannot agree that in so much as an entire reality-state, one cannot know that what one learns in one reality applies to another.

Free will and freedom are separate concepts and I was trying to explain that in reference to your post. Free will is to be free to choose among available choice. Freedom is to be free in all choices. You do not have the freedom to fly to the grocery store, therefore you do not have the free...

I understand your point, Dev, but it does not remove free will. Rather, it is to say that we are free as an individual to make our own choices. We cannot choose to do that which we are unable to do, thus it is not an option in so far as choice.