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African cichlids are excelent examples of "speciation" in action. The main problem is that the line deviving clades, sub-species, and variants are so blurry, that a definate example is almost always argued by some perspective that is does not reach specific qualifications to reach new species level. Mainly it is a vague line as to what exactly a species is (mainly just a contrived human term that does not exactly mirror what happens in nature).

I can see no problem with allowing people to do have the freedoms to do anything that does no harm to another. Because someone doesn't like it...get over it. I really don't like what many chirches do, but it is their right to do so, so I wil argue in foavor of their freedoms to do what they like within the bounds of the constitution. Outside of that document, rest of the laws are inconsequiential. They are ephemora to the law that will be used then discarded over time.

I really don't see the judeo-chistian right rallying behind the banning of divorce... Maybe that's a sin that they like and don't want to loose it. Morals have no relevance to law. It should be based on logic and therefore ethics.

Dictionary.com said:

Note the use of subjective ideals of "goodness and badness" in the def. of moral.

There's been a lot of this thread going on, and I don't have the time at the moment to go through it all.

Having been as student and a teacher I have seen a great many of the facits of the US educational system (as well as studied in a European Gymnasium system as well).

The first and foremost problem with our educational system is lack of parental involvement. Not only in the accademic aspect, but in the personal lives of kids. Not only through the lack of any support for accademic education, the classroom has also become the place to to have to teach kids inter-personal and character skills. If you have to spend half the class teaching little johnny not to be a jack ass, its a bit hard to get a full lesson on the subject matter in.

Next the standardization of education is a massive failure. Schools are now factories in which it had been assigned the teach what facts must be taught and how they will be tested. The whole concept of crittical thinking and anylization has evaporated. We are producing a generation that can pass the standard test (if you go to a good school), yet have no ability to think on their own.

Well there's my two cents...maybe i'll get into the thread now.

The problem is that much of both sides is correct. It does appear that we are in a cyclic climatic system, and that the earth in the past has naturally gone through sudden climatic shifts over the eons. The two problems with this idea is that in the past we have had both slow and fast cycles, so we do not know for a fact that the climate change is occurring in complete natural order or being accelerated and influenced by man's actions.

The latter has some reasonably strong inferences through the variety of systems that are intimately linked to CO2 levels. Many of these systems have huge influences on climatic paterns(the carbon cycle, ocean currents, etc). It seems foolhardy to think that massive shifts in concentration will not alter these sytems.

Salts melt ice through the chemical process of being ionically dissolved. It is an exogenic reaction (ie it relases heat). This heat/energy comes from the breaking of the ionic salt molecule into free ions. In this state (already in solution) they will not cause ice to melt. They can however alter the density and physical properties of the sloution (such as freezing point).

questor said:

I guess thats why they don't really go on murderous rampages there.

Actually the origins of the anarchist movement lie in a devoutly religous group that felt that god's laws were absolute and man did not need a gov't to uphold them, nor did they feel the cumpunction to follow laws that were not god's.

Somehow you feel that killing someone to remove the threat of them works better than life imprisonment. I fail to see any logic behind the statement. CP has show to be a very ineffective deterrent, and has even been reference to cause escalation of crimes (ie someone commits what they feel might be a capital offense, they will continue to do so to avoid capture).

WE have a secular constitution in the states, but for most the butressing of CP is theological in nature , eye for an eye(ie the converse is equally if not more touted, Thou shall not kill for example, or turn the other cheek.)

Of the countries that still practice the death penalty most fall into "Bush's axis of evil". We are the only first world nation that still intentionally kills its citizens.