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Nature, NEMJ, and other journals usually have a few select articles free. PLoS is a great open-source journal.

Looks like a fun toy.

It's not true that genes are only conserved because they effect the organisms fitness; some genes don't effect fitness at all and remain in the gene pool because they aren't selected out.

Ignore the rest of the site, I just needed to find the statistics from the Ecklund study =P

Atheists and other secular groups just have a higher "yield rate" of scientists compared to other groups. Source: http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/why_are_scientists_atheists.html#n04 Edit: I'm not quite sure, but I think the Ecklund study showed that most scientists are not atheists.

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Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology by Marieb was what I used when I took anatomy in high school. I haven't taken anatomy in college, but Campbell's Biology is what we used for my college level Intro Bio courses. It's mostly basics about biology (cell structure, genetics, important...

48/2(9+3) = x 48/2 = x / (9+3) 24 = x / 12 288 = x Bad notation is bad.

There's a lot of debate about this between different religious denominations. Some think he's God, others think he's human, others think he's both.

The only difference I've noticed is the bickering within the atheist movement.

I don't see anything wrong with this. He's selling artwork in exchange for money. So what? It's not like he's saying 'I need money so I can make artwork' or 'I need money for art supplies,' both which are essentially donations since the payer doesn't get anything him/herself.

But is complete understanding behind an idea and how one arrived to that conclusion necessary to justify having a small amount of faith that that idea is accurate? I think the application of the sciences to daily life as well as the history of the scientific community's ability to find the most...

I watched that today. Good to watch but nothing really came out of it (like most debates).

That pretty much sums up my deconversion. I spent 12 years in Catholic school and became an atheist by the time I left. The only thing that atheists did for me during my deconversion was to bring up the standards of truth that I already knew and apply it to Christianity in a way that I hadn't...