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Umm didnt see this posted elsewhere.

Thought this is amusingly apropos since King Kong opens today.

And children try to play nice !

1 posted on 12/14/2005 6:26:01 AM PST by Dichroic
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To: Dichroic

I thought King Kong and Teddy Kennedy looked familiar....


2 posted on 12/14/2005 6:30:20 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: Dichroic

I knew there was something missing from DemocRATs.


3 posted on 12/14/2005 6:31:44 AM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: Dichroic

Endorphin/Opiate ping!


4 posted on 12/14/2005 6:33:05 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: PatrickHenry

Interesting.


5 posted on 12/14/2005 6:36:07 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: Dichroic

"..distinct variant.." this means different. Shows nothing. Since all terrestrial life is carbon based, similar chemical compounds would be found throughout. The article's author(not the poster)may overreach attempting to draw a grand conclusion. Interesting, not fascinating.


8 posted on 12/14/2005 6:41:49 AM PST by steve8714
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To: Dichroic

"might well have depended in part on hyperactivation of the gene"

MIGHT WELL are the key words and of course we need to have some hyperactivity involved as well. Another theory paraded as fact.


10 posted on 12/14/2005 6:47:34 AM PST by pangaea6
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To: Dichroic
Ironically, Anthropologists regard spiritual awareness, such as burial after-life rituals, as key traits in distinguishing human sites from other lower species.

Could God have endowed us with an awareness of the spirit realm? Could pure rationalism actually be seen as a step back from this natural ability? Nahhhhh!!!!! (sarc.
11 posted on 12/14/2005 6:48:32 AM PST by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: Dichroic

There was a thread on this about a week ago. Didn't get much response. And it was the actual scientific paper.


12 posted on 12/14/2005 6:53:05 AM PST by furball4paws (The new elixir of life - dehydrated toad urine.)
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To: Dichroic

"might well have depended in part..."

Anytime someone says "might," it is equally true that it might NOT.

Since when did speculation start being passed off for science?


14 posted on 12/14/2005 7:37:42 AM PST by Elpasser
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To: Dichroic
"Researchers have discovered the first brain regulatory gene that shows clear evidence of evolution from lower primates to humans"

We simply don't know enough to make this claim.

The evidence can be said to be consistent with the theory that humans evolved from lower primates.

It could be said to show that there are similarities between humans and such primates, but be an example of why we are different.

We can't prove or disprove evolution any more than we can prove or disprove that man made global warming is significantly effecting the global climate.
15 posted on 12/14/2005 7:45:22 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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25 posted on 12/14/2005 9:29:22 AM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: Dichroic
[Researchers] said the evolution of humans might well have depended in part on hyperactivation of the gene, called prodynorphin (PDYN)....

"Might well...might well...."

More delusions of grandeur from the evo-philes that some way they may play "God" with enough crayons and coloring books.

35 posted on 12/14/2005 6:01:50 PM PST by F16Fighter
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If somebody hyperactivates that guy's prodynorphin, we're all in big trouble.


50 posted on 12/15/2005 8:20:33 AM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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Key Brain Regulatory Gene Shows Evolution In Humans

Evolution...
...It's all in your head.

51 posted on 12/15/2005 9:57:23 AM PST by Theophilus
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