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Also, it might be wise, given human nature as pointed out by others, to have mandatory random abortions.

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5. Not equal. Is there really that much to debate when each definition is so radically different? IMHO, the introduction of ID feels a little desperate and forced, especially since it comes from christianity. Umm. The pope could just announce that Genesis was expressing time in a differnt manner, like as if a billion years was a day to their god. Wouldn't that fix the pesky 4000BC thing?

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6. Not in public schools, maybe in others. Again, not my business if a parochial school wishes to teach ID, creationism, sleight of hand, or reindeer herding techniques.

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7. Lowered. Too many outfits are able to hire people for scut work by offering this carrot out to them. I say let the free market system work. Would you work at McDonalds for $2/hour? $3? Does it depend where you live and your expenses? Should some $2000 suit wearing Washington fatcats decide for you? We have enough worker safety laws to protect workers from unsafe conditions, now let's give the economy a chance to adjust wages to reality.

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But if you want me to make an assessment of whether the elements of an organism's genome seem designed or not, well, there are an awful lot of useless bits which are easily explicable as relics of evolution but don't make all that much sense if they were designed in. (At least, not by one person -- maybe if they were designed by several committees working at different points in time without full access to the details of each other's work... :P )

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See, now you're saying that it IS possible to scientifically determine whether or not something is designed, just disagreeing with the conclusions of the people promoting the idea - that seems to boil down to calling it a valid science practiced by bad scientists. :P

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Surely there are plenty of tests that could be done? Such as finding some sort of criteria that allows you to objectively determine between a painting and a random mash of colours, and then checking that against a whole lotta paintings and random mashes (forgive my tech-speak :P ).

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4. What do you think of the issue of gay marriage?

Gay marriage should be illegal. However, civil unions for gays should be allowed.

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What's the difference, exactly? Is it simply the religious aspect?

If that's the case, what if it's not a Christian wedding?

Or, by the same logic, why should non-Christian weddings be legal?

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By the way, the above definition helps nothing. How do you define the mother and father as a unicorn? Do you have to trace a unicorn's ancestry back to a Primal Unicorn to define it as such? And what if a unicorn mates with a horse? Is it a uni-mule?

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In A3 and BoA, this rather bizarre bell curve experience system was dropped for a much more logical system where the penalty or bonus is applied to the entire experience gain. In the above case, the character with a 20% penalty will gain 40 experience with no chance of variation.

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Collagen isn't bad for you, though. In fact, isn't whatever is in it what makes chicken soup so good for you when you have a cold?

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"If unicorns don't exist, how can they have one horn?"

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They can't. But since they can also not have two horns, or three horns, or any other amount of horns, the answer must be one.

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They can't have one or any amount of horns. So the answer is still definately not one. However, if a unicorn were found, by definition it would have one horn. So that unicorn does as do all of them that exist.

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