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Glad to be back had some RL issues which are done with now

How about almond scrimshaw?

Don't you think? From here. Please discuss, with good arguments of course.

Given all the inconsistencies and violence in the bible, maybe god is a fucking moron and a pathological liar.

I do. You want to perpetuate a patriarchal system that favors you as a man and forces women to serve you as their master. It's rooted in a deep-seated fear of spending resources on children not from your loins, and seeks to control women's bodies for your own use. It's a pathetic, greedy, unmanly way to view the world, imo. But other than that, how's your day going?

Is there any evidence it is a guided process? No. Is there anything extra that would be explained if it were a guided process? No. So, is there any reason at all to think it is a guided process? No. Is what you should have said. Note that evolution is not a theory. It is a fact (like gravity). The theory is that evolution is explained by natural selection. And why are you supporting your arguments by reference to a religious forum?

Yes we do, not!!!

If this is true, God let Nero, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Mao, Osama Bin Laden, Ferdinand Marcos, Idi Amin, Franco, Saddam Hussein, etc etc etc happen. Political leaders and regimes who literally murdered millions of people Why would the divine intervene in the 2016 election?

Obviously you never met somebody who really is paranoid. Not just vague ideas of being followed, but acting according these feelings, in such a way that such a person cannot copy with daily life anymore. Example: colleague comes panicking into the office, hiding immediately under his desk, saying that those helicopters outside are chasing him. Because that does not help. The paranoid feelings overwhelm a person completely, so he cannot think rationally anymore. That's why also very intelligent people can become psychologically ill. Intelligence does not protect against psychological illness.

Significantly confounding problems with the simplistic approach you've taken include that mutation rates are not uniform between species and across genomes https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3098 and that the number of observed mutations is proportional not just to mutation rate, but population size also https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17348929 Usually, to calculate time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA), you'd use a molecular clock mutation model and a bayesian MCMC analysis to generate posterior probabilities. This article has a really good explanation of methods to calculate TMRCA https://www.genetics.org/content/158/2/897.

Just because psychiatry didn't work for you is no reason to lie about psychiatrists. You are not being rational.

Thank you for popping in every once in a while and keeping us 'honest', Mordred. glad to have you back.

That is because you are not listening.

There are a couple of wrong assumptions regarding genomic differences, but before that, a basic mistake is that your calculation assumes a genomic transition from human to chimpanzee DNA. However, the distance that you should calculate is that from either of them to their common ancestor, which diverged ca. 6 MYA ago. Another fundamental issue is that genome re-arrangements are not based on single nucleotide exchanges alone. Quite a lot of larger scale changes are based on duplications as well as deletions, predominantly in intergenetic regions. You will note that the genome size is actually different and if you align the whole genomes of the two species you will find sizeable gaps in either of them. So depending on how you actually count those gaps (and/or perform the alignment) you will find similarities between human and chimpanzees as low as ca. 80%. If we focus on actual genes, that shoots up close to 99%.

Women have been and currently are leaders all over the world. Not every human on the planet is as dumb as the average American.

It did not and there is no homosexual gene since it has a zero chance of replicating. However if you are Elton John you can buy a kid and pretend

Schizophrenia does not exist, no. There is no way of testing whether someone has schizophrenia or not. With any other physical illness there are symptoms, you test, and then you treat. But there is no testing with schizophrenia. It's simply symptoms => treatment. WIthout physical tests you don't know if someone is faking it or if someone is really going through what they claim to be going through (not delusional). And getting the label is the worst part of the ordeal; better just go to a therapist or social worker. Someone to calm you down and set you down the right path. Suicidal children...that's different. But do the meds even work? They have plenty of adverse side effects. Once again, therapist, not psychiatrist

There's no pretending it doesn't exist. It's a relic from the early 1900s, a social construct that doesn't exist. In the middle ages there was "glass disease." These things are social constructs. There's no objective tests proving otherwise.

isn't this supposed to be 'atleast' in religion category ??????????? smh...u making my head hurt more but its ok,my apology if i wasn't supposed to Post here.

There's a lot of responses but no one is countering anything important I said. -Psychiatrists are not in a position to know what is true and what isn't; if someone thinks something "paranoid," well that's highly subjective, and it may be true. -There is no evidence at all that most mental illnesses have any physical, medical basis. If they invent a test, that'd be fantastic. Until then, it's all speculation. -Medication has negative side effects. A study from a few days ago implicates this stuff in giving patients dementia. -A better, more cost-efficient and time-saving way of healing these people is talking to them and getting their lives on track. Not snuffing them out with a horrible label and meds.

Let's say all that happened as part of punishment to humanity,woman could have been the better version of leadership but she screwed it up...

Evolution is an incomplete theory because there we still don't know whether natural selection was a guided process or not. Just like general relativity, evolution is a theory that is incomplete because there are still many things we don't know. https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-evolution-speculation/1324

In the bible Genesis chapter 3:16 we learn that man was to rule over woman,this really haunts me to this day since elections,could this be the reason Hillary lose??.i try asking people this but i end up sounding weird,i knew right before elections Trump would win because it couldn't make sense a woman winning and rule the world,because that would mean something totally opposite from the Bible...am i going crazy? Does anyone understand what am trying to point out? I got the feeling some people wondering whats up with me but is there anyone out there seeing some light in my point? Help me understand where am wrong Let me know your thoughts,thank you.

I have come to the conclusion that psychiatry either does not exist or should not exist. It should not exist because it does more harm to the patient than good. Far too often a relatively normal individual with minor symptoms is diagnosed as crazy by an overzealous psychiatrist without objective diagnostic tools. The patient then takes meds that alter behavior and physiological function, as well as tarnishing his relationship with family and friends even. Psychiatry also should not exist because everyone has a right to their narrative of events; if a guy thinks his ex is stalking him or something along these lines, his narrative might be correct. A psychiatrist is in no position to discern whether something is a delusion or not. Far too often a psychiatrist labels anything as delusional. Psychiatry does not exist because there are no physical tests to discern whether someone has a mental illness. The current hypothesis, dopomine, is just that - a hypothesis. No has has made any progress at all in determining what mental illness is, what causes it. Yet somehow diagnosis of mental health has exploded. A good replacement is simply behavioural therapy. Reason with someone, teach them how to live. Psychiatry should be dismantled.

Delusional is believing something that is false. But what is false? Let's say I think someone is stalking me. How does a psychiatrist know that this is true or false? It could be true. And if it's false, why do we consider that to be "crazy"? Why not say simply "you're wrong." I don't understand the paradigm of calling someone insane, the benefit it has on the individual, and why paranoia has anything to do with it. Some people are subject to more uncertainty than others. Did someone commit a crime? Is there a rumor spreading about someone in his or her community? Did some major event occur that could bring with it paranoia? There is no such thing as insanity in the case of paranoia. Paranoia is sometimes needed, and if it's wrons it's wrong. Doesn't mean someone is crazy. Yet a psychiatrist simply says you're nuts, gives you medication, and ruins your relationship with family and friends - forever labelled as insane. I am not the only one to think this. Psychiatry is wrong and immoral, and has little scientific grounding.

You just dont get it!!

its just hard for you to reason isn't it? You know what? No one is close to understanding me. Am just starting to realize that first guy on the top was right,this is a science forum not bible study.y'all just a bunch of non believers,i wonder if Einstein is in Heaven or Hell...am gone!.how do i delete my account??