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I didn't think it was all that special, I guess.

I thought it was opinions, not facts?

George Bush believes in christ. He is a thug.
Dick Chaney believes in christ. He is a thug
Donald Rumsfeld believes in christ. He is a thug.
Connie Rice believes in christ. She is a thugette.The correlation and anti-correlation between religiosity and thuggery is 0.000.

May be you should read a book on logic. You might be surprised about how much is there to be learned. It`s the indoctrination that`s questionable, not the patriotism

After all this time, I thought out of everyone I knew, only my wife and I shared this opinion.I even think it was one of the reasons we got married.

lol, yes I'm sure one person is able to conclude from their perception of reality the the inner mind of something of the order of a billion people (much more if we include the time dimension - in full or part).There are so many problems associated with even gathering objective evidence for/against such a statement that I can not see any good justification for claiming its factuality emerging at any time in the near future.

Phew. Now that's a strong one, Schraf.I assume you base this on instinctive reproductive/territorial urges? Or do you just have a low opinion of young men?Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.Edited by RickJB, : No reason given.

Hmmm. I'm curious to know what kind of definition of science you have that excludes physics and chemistry (mathematics isn't a science and has never been defined as one).What is the natural world in your opinion? Does it exclude the things studied by physicists and chemists?And can you give me an example of a science that doesn't depend on simplified models of the natural world?

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'I can't even fit all my wife's clothes into a suitcase for travelling. So you want me to believe we're going to put all of the planets and stars and everything into a sandwich bag?' - q3psycho on the Big Bang

It's a simple survey that they've done several times in the past, Mod. The results are always the same - particularly if you don't call it "rape" in the survey, but simply describe the behavior, more than half of college-aged men would commit those acts if they felt they were sure of getting away with it.Or at least they say they would. I can't think of any reason they would lie about that.

I've been over it a couple of times, already. Check upthread. That in which there are no such things as "points" and "planes" and "parallel lines" and "frictionless pulleys" and "nonelastic ropes" and billiard tables where all the balls are completely spherical, and all the other inventions of mathematics that physicists seem to rely on so dearly, to the exclusion of how pulleys and ropes and billiard tables actually work in real life. Biology. I'm not saying that they're not there, simply that you can't depend on them.

I'd certainly be interested to see the results. Specifically how they manage to obfuscate the violence in violent rape. Are the studies global, or just the US/Europe whatever? Are they temporal, have we seen any interesting trends of increasing or decreasing tendencies?This single perspective could provide a wonderful wealth of information about the way the world's zeitgeist shifts.As an aside, I wonder what girls and gays say in comparable surveys.

Have women been given some kind of equivalent test?

That's just first year undergrad mechanics though, which contains problems that a student can solve in a reasonable length of time. Real world pulleys can be done easily, they just don't give any extra insight into anything, though they are extra work, which is why they aren't given to students. Same with the rest of you examples, they're simplifications made for course work, not actual simplifications made in working physics.

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Courses in "logic." Personal finances makes sense, but I don't think you can teach people logic; you either have it or you don't. That's like teaching people "smart."

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Actually, logic in general is not natural to humans and is one of those things that has to be passed on from generation to generation.It is a skill that needs to be learned and practiced, and so classes in logic would be very valuable, indeed.

Wow, my husband and I both think the Doors suck.