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That's not accurate. A great many hermaphrodites will show multi-chromosomal characteristics while retaining a single sex. A man who carries a chromosome set similar to XXY or XYY may be sexually functional and capable of reproduction as a woman with xxy or xxxy may also be functional...

Low brow humor has no home in these forums.

Thinking about this the other day I had a thought about virgin birth. We know parthinogenesis is possible, and in some cases it is the only means by which a species will procreate. So if Jesus was a virgin birth, Mary would have to be a hermaphrodite by definition. Otherwise, where'd she get...

Just think about it this way. If the child is male it couldn't have been parthinogenesis unless his mother was a hermaphrodite. Otherwise, where did the Y chromosome come from?

It's the same problem that the religious have with anything that contradicts their beloved mythology. If you yank one stone from the foundation, their entire house of silliness caves in upon itself.

Incorrect. The act is the issue, not the object upon which the act is being performed. Ah I get it now, you're intentionally being a jackass and dancing around the point. If you condone an act once, you must condone it in its entirety and at each instance. Burning the Koran doesn't appear to...

You wanted an example of how book burning removed knowledge forever, I supplied it. The breadth of circulation is not relevant as each Koran is unique, either in its construction, use, margin notes, publication errors, etc. It is abundantly clear that you are allowing your notions of free...

The Great Library of Alexandria for one. This is one of the earliest known incidents of directed book burning, unsurprisingly wrought by the hand of Christians.

Re: The Most Effective Universal System of Punishment: Isola I still didn't want to copy paste about 20 pages of material:) That'd be rude being the new fish and so forth. Thank you for the input gents, I clearly have some more research to do while constructing this idea.

DOMA was overturned a month ago. Ruled unconstitutional as it was seen as discriminatory and against the equality tenets of the Constitution.

I don't blame you, there isn't one. This is the imposition of religious morality into secular society, again. Just like the "equal time" bullshit they push in Texas.

Atheism is simple. I see no evidence of God, therefore I have no belief in God. Definitions are quite easy. Using the words properly is not. Everyone, unless they are lying, is agnostic. Agnostic means you do not have knowledge of a God. You can be an agnostic theist, or an agnostic...

Well that just settles it, if this isn't real, it is infinitely marketable.(mormonism, scientology, whatever that crazy guy bombing japanese subways believes in)

Re: The Most Effective Universal System of Punishment: Isola Logical deductions for the most part. The above is heavily editted to not blow away the board. I've been writing a lot on the topic and will probably condense into book format soon. Excellent point, however, lone wolves must remain...

Burning books is an act of ideological censorship. You are destroying knowledge, never to be seen again. Burning a single Koran might be forgivable, but considering this man's motivations I'm sure he'd go ahead and burn every copy on the planet if he had his way.

No one would ever believe that one, Pennies. People aren't THAT stupid.

Appolonius of Tyana Alcidies the Redeemer Seleme Hesus of Maycene Tien and Chang-Ti and I think you guys got all the others I know.

@ the OP Sounds like a mix of three things. Delusion: the mind forcing the believer to believe through the desperate want to believe, also possibly tied to a chemical imbalance Lies: self explanitory. Repression: In some of these instances there could be traumatic repression involved...

This was a blog post of mine from a month ago or so. Sorry if it's a tad long winded. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the criminal justice system. It is a very difficult issue to tackle as one must really examine all aspects of western culture to determine what we're doing, why we do...

The issue here, in my opinion, is the action as well as the motivation. Only those with ill motivations would think that the burning of a book, or the destruction of codified experience, would be a symbolic statement of purpose. Look at those who burn books and what they've brought into the...