Let's say, for example, that I live in a Sharia-based society. Should I just accept these crippling religious laws because it is wrong to judge groups of people? Can't I just reject the whole insane pile? Must I judge every single one of these woman-hating intolerant lunatics individually?
I'd say you have three choices: accept the law because you choose to live / earn your living in a Sharia country, reject the law and move to a secular country, or reject the law and work for the elimination of Sharia law in that country.
BTW, as an atheist, I'd like to point out that misogyny is not a feature of Islam, but a feature of the cultures in which Islam is most predominant - patriarchal tribal societies every one.
It's a nice theory and all that, and yes, from the analogy of a cloud chamber I can see how cosmic rays can seed clouds, but...
All these stars were a long, long way away.
The amount of radiation (any sort) falling on a body decreases in an inverse square manner, so I doubt that even in the maddest periods of star formation there would have been more than a tiny effect on our atmosphere, especially compared with the effects of a cosmic ray emmitter only 8 light-minutes away that may also have been fluctuating wildly.
Yeah - but that's a mitochondrial DNA study - the common female ancestor may have been 500K years ago, but this wouldn't affect the theory that some big hairy-assed Neanderthal dude fancied getting it on with a cute lil Sapiens chick now and again, and passed on the 'big brain' gene in his Y chromosones.
Since the mtDNA all comes from the egg, the common female ancestor would still show as the 500K Eve.
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I'm offended - but then again, I reserve the right to be offensive myself, short of dehumanising anyone.
The next US based tragedy I shall be sure to tag deadyankeemofos or similar - haw about a dominoeffect tag for 9/11, for example?
I'd say you have three choices: accept the law because you choose to live / earn your living in a Sharia country, reject the law and move to a secular country, or reject the law and work for the elimination of Sharia law in that country.
BTW, as an atheist, I'd like to point out that misogyny is not a feature of Islam, but a feature of the cultures in which Islam is most predominant - patriarchal tribal societies every one.
The man was a bandwagon-jumping authoritarian prick who should never have been included in the Bible in the first place.
You owe me for 3 ribs busted while laughing uncontrollably at the sarcasm.
Seriously, though, these guys have just read a paper or two, and have dumbed the contents down for a sort of 'technical managerial' audience.
All these stars were a long, long way away.
The amount of radiation (any sort) falling on a body decreases in an inverse square manner, so I doubt that even in the maddest periods of star formation there would have been more than a tiny effect on our atmosphere, especially compared with the effects of a cosmic ray emmitter only 8 light-minutes away that may also have been fluctuating wildly.
In short, I'm sceptical.
Since the mtDNA all comes from the egg, the common female ancestor would still show as the 500K Eve.
until Version 3.0 comes along - perhaps they'll have filled the Memory Hole by then.
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Only words consisting of A,C,G and T - so a rather limited vocabulary...