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(...) An interesting notion. Is this a common argument? (...) But why should they care any more than you do? I'm sure that there are a lot of ethnic European people around the world, but I feel no particular responsibility for them. If the "*very* (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John's right, this IS debate fodder. He should have set XFUT, but I will. XFUT o-t.debate and let's keep it out of other groups if it veers into the subject areas... that would be my strong preference and I suspect many others as well. Just a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought this was an interesting perspective: From the OU ==+== Infant mortality is a thing of the past, major diseases are treatable and natural disasters largely avoidable, so the merciless selective forces of nature are something of an (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Is Larry a Creationist? 8^) Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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(...) Ack. I mean the surfacing of traits already in the population (and not newly mutation generated) when I said micro... and the longterm generation/selection of new traits (and speciation) when I said macro. Sorry if that was imprecise. I ain't (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ciprox in particular, but antibiotics in general are overused. But my understanding is that "macroevolution" is a straw-man term coined, or at least embraced, by Creationists. All evolution is microevolution except on the geologic scale, and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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