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  1. Alate_One

    CO2 is plant food and other oversimplifications of climate

    There are quite a few threads covering climate change on ToL and most of them are filled with all sorts of arguments, but one in particular concerning plants. Since I am actually a botanist by training I thought I'd break this one out to address in more detail. For those interested in other...
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    Millions of Muslims are voting with their feet - Migrants reject ISIS

    Here's the real message of the so-called Migrant crisis. Millions of Muslims in Syria have no desire to live under ISIS rule. Instead they are risking their lives to try to make it to live in Europe. The majority of Sunni Muslims who oppose President Bashar Assad's regime also reject the ISIS...
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    Biological Taxonomy - Kinds vs. Species (Linnaean taxonomy)

    I have seen certain posters on ToL desire discussion of "kinds" vs. species. So where did the idea of species come from? It's quite old but the modern conception of taxonomy and scientific names originated with Carolus Linnaeaus. Linneaus was a Christian, a creationist and a originally a...
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    A Consistently Pro-Life Message

    I have seen many posters on this board complain that so many people claiming to be "pro-life" believing in protecting the unborn but take exception to groups they do not like: immigrants, the elderly, people of other races, the poor etc. I heard a consistently pro-life message this Sunday from...
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    Contraception program that reduces abortion not funded by GOP

    A privately funded program that gave IUDs to low income teens in Colorado is now out of money. Should government pick up the slack? Birth rates dropped and abortions dropped in the served population. But the Republican controlled senate in Colorado killed a bill to extend funding for the...
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    Obama Sings Amazing Grace

    IN05jVNBs64 He's got a good set of pipes if you ask me. A great part of a well done eulogy. Let's see if anyone that disagrees with him politically can admit they like it. :chuckle:
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    SCOTUS Upholds Obamacare . . . again.

    The latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - aka Obamacare has died an ignominious death. SCOTUS ruling 6-3 in favor of upholding subsidies. In his dissent Justice Scalia calls it SCOTUScare. :p Read Presidential Candidate reactions here.
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    Shooting at SC Church During Bible Study - Suspect still at large

    *edit* Suspect has been Captured in North Carolina *edit* Last night During a Bible study a young man killed 9 people. His picture is below. "The vehicle he may be driving is a black Hyundai with vehicle tag LGF330. Anyone with information about his location call 1-800-CALL-FBI," the city...
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    Republican Censorship - You can't say that!

    Florida Governor Rick Scott has apparently banned "climate change" and "global warming" from official documents and his officials. An employee was recently sent home from work for using the terms. See if you pretend Rome isn't burning, that makes it not burn. :chuckle: Meanwhile ....
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    2014 was World's Warmest Year on Record

    It's official, 2014 was the world's warmest year on record. Of course it was actually somewhat cool in the eastern US, but it was hot pretty much everywhere else. And for a longer term perspective: /cue scientific denialism
  11. Alate_One

    Hi all!

    Soo I've already posted around a bit but I thought I'd introduce myself more formally. I'm a Christian and scientist (no, not Christian scientist). I've spent the last 8 years of my life in a lab doing research, writing and reading papers, attending class, lectures and conferences etc. I'm...
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