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Einstein said the 10% thing, but he was a physicist, not a neurobiologist. Brain size is linked to intelligence, but that's mostly when you're comparing between species. As for the destiny thing, you can get out of destiny, but you can't escape fate, is the usual distinction between the...

It's in their tone of voice, the creepy look in their eyes, and their insistence. Stuff that can't properly be conveyed over the internet, bar saying that I find it to be very intimidating, frantic, and rude. An alternate theory is that Christians hijacked a pagan celebration, and rebadged...

Would anyone say that the stereotype of "gay person working with children = pedo" still is very influential?

I've seen some Christian vegetarians who reckon that as paradise is said to be, in the bible, where even all the animals eat herbs, and so they feel called to be vegetarian. I've also seen some people use that Paul verse to say that because all things are clean, the people should eat meat, and...

Sometimes I think that the defence forces think they're a law unto themselves... You remember when the girl cadet committed suicide a couple of years back? And several more before, there was a string of serial rapes (whether they were gang rapes or not, I can't recall) that led to one young...

The reason why I brought it up was that kids are taught to swim in their clothes in jeans because it's the heaviest article of clothing that you're likely to be wearing if you were to fall in the water somewhere. They soak up water and become like lead pants. I wonder if muslim ladies who...

If you carry around an obvious weapon, what's to stop any attacker from taking it from you and using it on you?

It actually looks like normal swimmers fabric... Now if it was denim, then there'd be a problem. (They always make you do the 'learn to swim in your clothes' part in your jeans because jeans soak up a lot of water and become like lead.)

Licenses can be stolen, too. It's one of the reasons why they make Working With Children checks a form every so often (I'm not sure how often, I've only been working with kids for a year) and not a licence. I carry a small pocket knife around for uni, for geology to be exact - the blade...

The average thirteen-year-old wouldn't know about old growth logging, Industrial Law or the roots of disadvantage. If you explained these things in terms that they'd understand (like 'when they cut really old trees down that we can't replace') then you might have more success. Unless their...

I think that's called being a trannychaser - it seems to be somewhat predatory. A term that they use for themselves is 'transsensual'... :rolleyes:

I read where this old bloke took multiple gel-covered pills with a cuppa tea and they melted together in his gullet... eek! :eek:

Where'd you get that 20% figure from? It seems suprisingly large, to me.

I asked about the blood because it seems to be a central idea in Christianity which I'm not sure that I understand. The facetious answer to your question would be "Cos he lived like, 2000 years ago! Duh.. :rolleyes: " I assume that you meant 'how do we know that Jesus died as a martyr?'...

I still don't get why God couldn't have just written the sins off with an apology, without having anything to die... :S And how can the blame and punishment of sin be transferred? :S

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/one-step-closer-to-embryo-cloning/2005/12/19/1134840796154.html says that there was a report done, and it recommended: - Ban to be lifted on creation of human embryo clones for research (therapeutic cloning). - Ban to remain on reproductive cloning. -...

If you only read halfway, you missed an important point, about any potential partner: It seems that the writer died in 1999. :(

When I was younger, and the taste of panadol was so awful it almost burned if I didn't swallow quickly, my dad would crush the panadol in a spoonful of honey. :)

Why does God need blood?

Speaking of wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_Studies