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Postscript- I never could see how any Christians could support the death penalty, since, not only are you depriving somebody of extant life, you're depriving them of life in the hereafter. I mean, killing somebody is pretty much proscribed in the Ten Commandments. If you're going to ignore that, you'll also have to ignore the potential for the executee to find salvation through penance in his remaining time on Earth. If a murderer doesn't repent before his execution, it doesn't mean he never would have. Therefore, the death penalty, in Christian eschatology, is simply an eternal torture sentence.

See, I always thought that people that supported the death penalty should be required to throw the switch (or, in this day of pentothal, at least watch the injection), chosen by lottery. Actually, (tongue in cheek, here), the death penalty abridges the First Amendment. The only people that the death penalty actually harms are the atheists. Quote from a warden: "I would not like to execute an inmate without faith because I know I would be sending his soul straight to hell." http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engACT500011998. You only abridge the life of people without faith by the death penalty, and that violates the establishment clause.

I would agree if you had said soup, but beer actually has a causal relationship with almost everything.

Well, it's only the cytochrome c gene. The fact that it is 22% different is actually more 'evidence' for evolution than the fact that it is 78% the same. If it was designed, it would presumably be more similar between human/rice than it is, since it's a mitochondrial gene and does exactly the same thing in humans and rice (although the signal sequence would probably be different). But it's had almost a billion years to change between humans and rice.

the robotic puppy anti-Christ with a cucumber/pickle tail got jealous of all that verdant foliage and, um, wet it to death.

1. Random 'evolution' or left over pieces of transposon/provirus. Only a few copies is enough to cause misalignment and repetition. 2. Short oligo repeats can cause complex structures (if they're too long, the delta G for unwinding the DNA is too high). Single nucleotide repeats just bend the DNA since there's no complimentary sequence except what they're already bound to. 3. Ribosomal genes (but those are little bit long). The short TNRs must assist in crossing over, though, since it's very easy to 'align' (read: misalign) them. That's why they tend to increase or decrease in size.

Yes. Animals, including people, are like big donuts, with the hole being the digestive tract. As long as you don't eat any part of the "donut" that has come in contact with the surface, you're safe, since the immune system clears nearly all bacteria from inside the donut. Of course, you could just not eat meat and solve this problem altogether (so I like being preachy. So what?)

a small puppy, with a tail that...

Giant Pancake Man! Dah da dum, he can't move, but he can, um...

he had to figure out a way to exist again.

Bunnies!!! Lots of cute little bunnies (with no connection whatsoever to the vagaries of various computer operating systems) showed up.

that he forgot what 'forever' meant, so he blinked out of existence (forever!) for creating a syntactic paradox.

he choked on a cheeseburger bone and died forever.

they were pretty small, so it was easy to kick them off. As I kept walking through the jail corridors, I found a giant lava lamp, which

But I was still in prison, so none of this really had any effect on me. Man, was I hungry - if only there were some cheeseburgers!

Oh, no! Cheeseburgers!!!!!

But wait... They didn't just look like cheeseburgers! Heaven was infested with angel-eating cheeseburgers (just like every third-world country)!

took the consolation prize: an all-expenses paid trip to Heaven!!!

A hamburger or a chicken sandwich.

What would have been an indictment of policy, then? Blowing up a school? Blowing up a hundred schools? When does the bloodshed get to be too much?

But then I realized that I don't have a front yard, so I checked myself into a sanitarium.

If you just memorize the first 50 digits, you can make them up after that. Nobody's going to know the difference.

Apparently, you can't change anything in a mammalian system without subverting your end goals. Something I am very well aware of. HIV-SARS-ccr5

You actually sound like a very interesting person (as someone who has had his own share of troubles). Be more forthcoming.

Except that no bodies were found and they don't even know the nationality of the people that they killed. The intelligence should at least have stretched that far.