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First president to support a PLO state which is to be carved out of the land of our ally and friend Israel.

So, what do you call Israel? Isnt't Israel carved out of the Palestinian land?

What a horrible link. There are militant muslims as well as there are militant jews and christians. How many blood-thirsty quotes from the bible would you like me to post? How about hese to start with:

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death

Murder is the sentence for practicing any other religion (including instruciotns on burning their city to the ground.

On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be sacred to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day shall be put to death.

"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. Exodus 21

Why does the US have half the worlds lawyers? It really makes no sense.

Because the US also has 1/3 of the world's wealth, and a justice system that allows you to sue frivorously(spelling, I know, I'm lazy).

we not only ended up with bacteria that could live in our waste, but also used it as a source of food....These bacteria "evolved" into being the perfect waste treatment system.

And, quite possibly (I shudder to think that evolution was your goal) "evolved" into something more resistant to the toxins that should have killed it. How does this advance us in the use of antibiotics? What is the name of this bacteria, and what does it do when introduced to Humans? If it is not directly harmful to humans, then what about other lifeforms? How certain are you that you haven't plagued species X with the "evolution" that you seem so proud of having caused. Have you accounted for every single species that might encounter your evolved bacteria?

Science is a tool that can be used for good purposes, I agree. The discoveries of the wheel, fire, and fire extinguishers were all good. Ultimately, science will lead to absolute proof of God's existence. But science, as a tool, like all tools can be used for evil as well. Even the Holy Bible can be used to hit my grandmother and knock her down. In this case, tool isn't the problem; the problem is its use.

On the other hand, there are certan tools that can be used only for destructive purposes. Pornography comes to mind, in as much as it short - circuits a normal, healthy sex drive and although a pornographic book can be used to hold up the short leg of my dinner table, that clearly is not its intended purpose.

At any rate, my argument was not Utilitarian; it was Judeo-Christian, specifically Catholic. It is not good, according to God's will, to try to design your own bacteria, cat, dog, or child, as it shows a grave disrespect for life and for God. Furthermore, we have no idea what kind of impact such a grave decision could bring about. That one would try to justify doing it for the use of cleaning up after our wasteful society, is little more than a further indictment of our wastefulness.

Look at the lengths we have to go to just to clean up after ourselves! Can't we just learn not to make a mess in the first place?!

Read my sig. To error in the side of being pedantic, read ! as "not".

Read the posts about the nanorobots to clean up after the other nanorobots.

Think about the story of Eve. If you don't know it, start here Understand that Eve was conned into thinking that it wasn't really "that bad". Yet she showed such disrespect for God, that we're all suffering.