well, not all of us are inept at the physical sciences. and actual m.d.'s are mostly the folks who were always top 5th percentile in everything. but, as for drug kinetics, unfortunately, that rarely if ever predicts how people really respond to a medication. and, most of us really don't understand statistics at all. and as for pharma reps, well, they employ more ex-college cheerleaders than any other industry. and god bless them for that...
don't forget that thermodynamics, by definition, applies to closed systems, of which biological organisms are not (you did eat breakfast and take in outside matter and energy today did you not?). Total BS argument.
radiation and chemo work in different methods. radiation cleaves the strands of dna, making the cell unable to replicate. chemo works by many ways (alkylation of dna to inhibition of synthesis of the nucleiotides), but overall inhibits/kills dividing cells. same effect, different means.
as a biology person i have a couple of comments:
1.)don't listen to most of these authors. dawkins is about promotion and controversy not facts. read something by theodosius dobzhanski or stephen j gould if you want to learn something.
2.)for all of the evolutionist out there: do really know how complex our bodies are? think of all of the events needed to wake up in the morning and get your coffee. all of the cortical activity (like the waking up, moving, sensing where you are, remembering the coffee, controling muscles (like the lungs) and such) alone is staggering. thats not even taking into account the heart and all of the other organs that are working as well. don't be so quick to discount intelligent design because things are very complex and even though we are not perfect, we do have lots of mechanisms to keep from breaking down.
3.)for all of the creationists: don't forget that the bible is fallible. it was not the red sea that moses parted but rather the reed sea. and don't forget that the jews spent a long time in babylon and managed to pick up their lore (like the great flood becoming the story of noah).
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well, not all of us are inept at the physical sciences. and actual m.d.'s are mostly the folks who were always top 5th percentile in everything. but, as for drug kinetics, unfortunately, that rarely if ever predicts how people really respond to a medication. and, most of us really don't understand statistics at all. and as for pharma reps, well, they employ more ex-college cheerleaders than any other industry. and god bless them for that...
don't forget that thermodynamics, by definition,
applies to closed systems, of which biological
organisms are not (you did eat breakfast and
take in outside matter and energy today did you
not?). Total BS argument.
radiation and chemo work in different methods. radiation cleaves the strands of dna, making the cell unable to replicate. chemo works by many ways (alkylation of dna to inhibition of synthesis of the nucleiotides), but overall inhibits/kills dividing cells. same effect, different means.
as a biology person i have a couple of comments:
1.)don't listen to most of these authors. dawkins is about promotion and controversy not facts. read something by theodosius dobzhanski or stephen j gould if you want to learn something.
2.)for all of the evolutionist out there: do really know how complex our bodies are? think of all of the events needed to wake up in the morning and get your coffee. all of the cortical activity (like the waking up, moving, sensing where you are, remembering the coffee, controling muscles (like the lungs) and such) alone is staggering. thats not even taking into account the heart and all of the other organs that are working as well. don't be so quick to discount intelligent design because things are very complex and even though we are not perfect, we do have lots of mechanisms to keep from breaking down.
3.)for all of the creationists: don't forget that the bible is fallible. it was not the red sea that moses parted but rather the reed sea. and don't forget that the jews spent a long time in babylon and managed to pick up their lore (like the great flood becoming the story of noah).
later