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People in western countries only think they're poor because they watch too much TV.

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  A reply on Conversation: Why is evolution considered a fact?

  2 days ago: If all the animals were created at the same time, why are there only human fossils in the upper layers of rocks?
  Why are the same fossils found in rock of the same age in different places but are not found in younger or older rocks? (Before you question radiometric dating keep in mind that if radiometric dating doesn't work then the computer you are looking at is impossible to make as they both rely on the same science)
  Look up the peppered moth, an example of evolution that was observed in real time.
  If God created all the animals at the same time why did he let most of them become extinct?
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  A comment on Conversation: Comparing hospital bills

  2 days ago: I pay $1200 a year medical levy out of my pre-tax income. If you take that as an average (I am about half way through my working life) I will have payed about 50 grand in the 40 years I woked by the time I retire. This is to cover all my medical expenses. Of course if I go to my grave without major medical issues I will have got nothing for my 50 grand except peace of mind, knowing that if I get hit by a car on the way to work I won't have to sell my house to pay medical bills.

• A reply on Conversation: Why do people just believe everything the meat and dairy industries tell them, why are people sheeple, and refuse to learn the truth?

  2 days ago: If you are concerned about Wiki pedia feel free to read some of the peer reviewed papers referenced at the end. I assure you everything I have said can be varified. I don't know where your information is coming from but mine is coming from published science journals as I am a science teacher and teach nutrition as part of the course. I would not have posted the link to the wiki page if I hadn't fact checked it first
  http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional/
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  A comment on Conversation: Instead of, "No bullying," let's shift the focus in schools to Peace. Let us teach peace explicitly in every school.

  4 days ago: I agree that most anti-bullying campaigns are a complete waste of time. When a bully is shown the results of bullying it just shows them what is possible. In my experience as a high school teacher I find it much more effective to teach the bullied kids resiliance. There are very few instances of a single bully bullying the masses, whereas I have seen many cases where a single victim is bullied by groups of totally normal kids.

• A reply on Conversation: DOJ Secretly Obtains Months Of AP Phone Records; AP Condemns 'Unprecedented Intrusion'

  4 days ago: I always got the impression that the 1% wealthy elite were the ones who chose the 1% political ruling class.
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  A reply on Conversation: Does creationism indicate bad education? (If so how can we fix this, and should it be taught?) Does Creationism have any credibility to it?

  5 days ago: The link would be more interesting if there were atheists who doubt evolution. Every link I tried went to a christian website except the one that led to Richard Milton who is a known attention seaker and has no training in science.

• A comment on Conversation: Has Human Cloning already happened? Not natural identical twins, but laboratory in vitro human cloning? And if it has, is it right?

  6 days ago: It's quite possible, even probable that cloning has occurred. But it would have been fairly recently. The simple procedure you describe won't work, successful cloning is much more complicated. the younger and less differentiated the donor cell is the easier it is. Using anything other than an ebryonic stem cell requires complex treatment as much of the DNA in a regular cell is inactive.

• A reply on Conversation: Truths and Facts. Does Science prove anything?

  6 days ago: Yep, even scientific "laws" are up for adjustment eg. Newtons laws of motion. These needed the caveat "At non-relativistic velocities" added due to the work of Einstein.

• A comment on Conversation: Truths and Facts. Does Science prove anything?

  May 10 2013: You have made the common mistake of looking at science in reverse. The scientist doesn't prove he disproves. Experiments are designed to disprove a hypothesis. The more experiments that are done which don't disprove the hypothesis the more reliable it becomes, but technically there is no truth only "what we think now" which must change if an experiment disproves it.

• A reply on Conversation: Why is evolution considered a fact?

  May 10 2013: What will your answer be when we do have the technology to manufacture a bird? The polio virus was a success and Mycoplasma mycoides is 90% there. The next step is a eukaryotic cell, which in the right conditions will grow into the complete organism.