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Morality without God | Talking Philosophy : "Keith McGuinness February 9, 2010 at 11:06 pm Benjamin: “…how nature builds its own morality into everything that exists…” Alas, as someone who has spent much of his life, one way or another, studying biology, nature is one of the last places I would look to for morality. In nature, some species routinely eat their own young, a practice which is generally regarded as questionable in most societies. War, genocide, patricide, and most other “cides” you can think of, are fairly common. Nature is a poor guide for what is moral." “Your religious programming obviously runs deeper than you have yet realized.” I’m an atheist, you twit. 'via Blog this'

"Molecular biologist's dream" is a phrase coined by Gerald Joyce and Leslie Orgel to refer to the problem of emergence of self-replicating RNA molecules, as any movement towards an RNA world on a properly modeled early Earth would have been continuously suppressed by destructive reactions. [47] It was noted that many of the steps needed for the nucleotides formation do not proceed efficiently in prebiotic conditions. [48] Wikipedia, RNA World  as of Oct 24, 2013 click to view details Trustworthiness {REPTEXT0} Child safety {REPTEXT4} share your opinion about this website

RNA world hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of the challenges in positing abiogenesis [non-living chemicals giving rise to living things] is that the system of memory, reproduction and metabolism utilized by all extant cells has a level of complexity, involving three distinct macromolecules, that suggests it could not have arisen in its current form, and yet the interdependence of its components makes a more simplified mechanism challenging . Mechanisms have then been sought whereby the current system might have arisen from a simpler precursor system click to view details Trustworthiness {REPTEXT0} Child safety {REPTEXT4} share your opinion about this website

I'm not an Apple fan but I do have a lot of respect for their products and Steve Jobs I'll just say a few things about him I think should get more attention After the original Apple, his first great business success was Pixar, that was what made him a billionaire. The Mac was a great design but not a great business success. The most important reason for which I think is that he didn't market to business, he showed his contempt for business buyers with the commercial of businessmen marching off a cliff. His first great  business success at Apple was the iPod, and then the huge, huge , huge success of the iPhone. All his successes had in common that they were striking visually --that must go to his core abilities. They had good visual user interfaces but even more they were things people wanted because of their looks. Even when they sacrificed some usability- you can't control an iPod by feel, for example. One element of their visual appeal was that they had a higher sc...

'Where is the sense of urgency? We need somebody to take charge. We’ve had an earthquake followed by fire, then a tsunami, then radiation, and now snow. It’s everything. 'There is nothing left. The world needs to step in. Where are the Americans? The Japanese are too proud to ask, but we need help and we need it now.' In one of the shelters for the evacuated, Motoko was worried for her daughter Yukiko, a teacher missing with her class of children. She told the Standard there is still no official list of those who have been evacuated: 'For all I know my daughter thinks I’m dead and I have no way of knowing if she is alive because mobile phones here don’t work here. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366934/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-10k-missing-Ishinomaki-death-toll-set-hit-25k.html#ixzz1Guq1M64t