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The problem is that I am allergic to penicillin and amoxycillin. The side effects are particularly nasty with this one. My reading online indicates this particular medicine is probably overkill.

Profound!

When I recover from the tooth extraction I had 5 hours ago, I can add my thoughts in a more lucid fashion. I haven't filled the prescription for the good pain killers yet. Reading Einstein when I was 13 or 14, helped me find a balance of critical thinking and creative imagination. More later.

Your logic confounds me! Why would evolution and spirituality be mutually exclusive? Instead of arguing in such rigid terms, inquire as to what the real nature of the universe is. Do you spend anytime in nature or even let your mind entertain the infinite possibilities of existence?

The problem with your premise is that you take as absolute proof several unscientific sources, then you proceed to make claims that are not taught in any textbook to my knowledge. Yes, there are similar biological cellular structures between animal and plant cells. That is as far as it goes. To my knowledge, no one ever claimed we have plant ancestors. If we did, human cells would have chloroplasts. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Animal_Cell_vs_Plant_Cell

It is not too late to go back to school. After high school, I had one year of college, that was interrupted by military service and I didn't get back in college until I was 28 yrs. old. It was the best time of my life. Don't doubt yourself!

The situation grows more grim everyday. The amount of radioactive contaminants increase and still no one knows if there is a meltdown happening. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/29/japan-on-maximum-alert-over-nuclear-plant/

I challenged Vortex on another thread about his educational experience or lack thereof, relative to his post on imminent geological calamities and the impossibility of his claims. No answer so far.

Actually numbers can lie. It depends on who is lying with the numbers. I have a very good background in math up through advanced 800 level (utility theory). "How to Lie With Statistics" is an excellent primer on the deception of numbers. Also I am a poker player and I know for a fact that probabilities are just that i.e, not exact.

I guess Gauss doesn't know math very well. Even Einstein said that math did not create an exact map of reality. I can't find his quote, but that is close enough.

The wealthy elite feel they have a right to huge tax breaks, for what purpose? Those breaks were given by Reagan and Bush. To create jobs? Hardly! Artificial (bubble) economies were created, not jobs. Jobs are created from consumer demand and if there is little demand for a given product, then tax cuts do nothing except inflate Wall Street's profits. Further, tax breaks to corporations are still funding .60cents per hour labor in China. Chinese companies are growing with the help of tax breaks from U.S. business, while the U.S. economy rots. By your logic it is more fair to put someone out of a job and possible homelessness in the U.S. so that said corporation can make greater profits manufacturing in China. What gives you the right to determine what is right for others in this context. Are you more entitled to a better life by virtue of being a conservative? The states that are involved in union busting and cutting pension benefits and other so called cost cutting measures are giving more tax breaks to the wealthy. Since when are the wealthy corporations so damn important? Since you are a known conservative and want less government, then the government has no business giving special dispensation to corporations in order to increase profits. No assistance whatsoever should be given. That would be less government interference. Not only is corporate power increasing in terms of profit, the Citizens United vs. FEC SCOTUS decision, in which corporations were given the rights of persons gives free speech rights to so called corporate persons the right to donate unlimited money to political campaigns. That is the most bogus ruling ever coming from that court! Your first paragraph in defining what rights people should not have portrays you as greedy with no respect for your fellow human beings. Yet, you call yourself a spiritual person?

What I would like to know is, do you have a profession, are you a student, if neither are correct, what kind of job do you have? Has the economic downturn hurt your lifestyle in any way?

You are comparing Mao to leftist's? That is a false construct given to you by the purveyors of propaganda i.e, Fox News, conspiratorial sites on the internet, Rush Limbaugh et al. Further, as Blasto has so eloquently pointed out, the problem is about a plutocracy and not a left and right political divide. Stop believing your illusory maps of reality and see reality for what it is.

Also, the U.S. is facing a government shutdown which is being pushed by the billionaire Koch bros. and Dick Armey's "tea bag party." It is obvious the "tea bag party" is being used by wealthy corporations as a front group to do their bidding. The demands are to defund planned parenthood, gut part of the stimulus and rid the country of "Obamacare." This move by the wealthy class has become easier by the "Citizens United vs. FEC" SCOTUS ruling, which allows unlimited money to be used politically by corporations. Which is nothing more than "money=speech" and corporations were given the same rights as living persons! What a scam perpetrated on the people of this country! If their demands are not met, the government will shutdown. This is class warfare! A return to feudalism! BTW, the "tea bag party" has chosen for themselves a peculiar title. Here is a link to the real meaning of tea bagging. :lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag_%28sexual_act%29

This is a good one! Gingrich fears atheist country..... Many will follow this character and believe every word he says! http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/28/gingrich-fears-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists/?hpt=T2

You are incorrect that every crater was named after Jesuits. Jack Parsons had a crater named after him. Only 35 are named after Jesuit scientists. Where in the hell do you get these ideas? To claim all are is misrepresenting the facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_%28crater%29

It was late when I wrote that. I know it looks like milligrams.

I just found this while reading the morning news. The article is about an autistic boy who happens to be a math genius. One scientist believes this kid can overturn Einstein's work on relativity. There are several links here with many idiotic and uneducated remarks. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/jacob-barnett-12-year-old_n_841577.html http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-beautiful-mind-12-year-old-boy-genius-sets-out-to-disprove-big-bang/

I know where you are going with this one. I bought my first computer way back in 1999 and that was my first internet connection. I paid 3000.00 for a 750mg Dell. As for books, when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's, we didn't have many books at home. However, being the curious and scientific creature that I was and still am, I read the entire school library. History (American and European), Einstein, science fiction, science and all the great European and American literature that I could get my hands on. Russian novels were not my favorite. Einstein had the greatest impact and still does. After military service in the early 70's I enrolled in college at The Ohio State University. Each college had its own library and the main library was 26 floors. The entire library system was second to none in the country at that time. I thought I was in heaven! Couple all of that with my wife at that particular moment in time, who had and still does have an IQ that is off the charts made the entire college experience unforgettable.

What?

Immortal, The fallacy of this thread is that a major component of evolution has been overturned. I have yet to see any proof offered by you in this thread. Fundamentalists with no formal training in any of the hard sciences have some crusade to overturn decades of established science and to cut or reduce funding for ongoing research. Dinosaur and human footprints in the same riverbed and the grand canyon great unconformity are just two phenomenon that are used to justify a pseudo scientific approach. Linked here is one example. http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/people/morris-h.html Fundies (flat earth advocates) are attempting to rewrite school text books as in the case of the Texas state school board to allow revisionist history and intelligent design in the classroom. The changes are designed to create a class of goosestepping morons that have no capacity to think for themselves and will follow any right wing political agenda. Have you read history and what such movements lead to? Inquisitions, holy wars, book burning and the Third Reich are historical events which are of major consequence in the evolution of this world. As of this moment I am part way through 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William L. Shirer. Why would I read this particular work? The consequences of a state and corporate alliance which created a ruling class and a slave class as in the case of the Weimar Republic are very similar to what is happening here in the U.S.

What is your point on this hangup you have on a so called generation gap? The writer of the article stated: " he suggested that these gestalt switches might be linked to such social processes as generational conflict; a younger generation of physicists may be more likely to adopt new theories than the older generation." "Might be and maybe" are not absolute certainties and only represent possibilities. To say all older scientists are inflexible in their thinking is preposterous! The case of Stephen Hawking proves my point. He is crippled with ALS and will be 70 next year. I am going to play my guitar now which is infinitely more interesting than your recent attempts here at a fundamentalist narrative. Are we seeing another Vajraji here?

I can't read your mind, so don't ask!

Well put!