People say that homosexuality can cause extinction. How can there are still gay people in the world?
According to http://www.narth.com/docs/nothardwired.html, Dr. Francis S. Collins support the idea that homosexuality is not hard wired.
The heritability of homosexuality is “only” 20%. That is, the probability that an identical twin raised independently will be homosexual if the other one […]
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Why Homosexuals Don’t go Extinct?
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Can Porn be Really More Dangerous Than War? For Who?
So many people believe that porn is immoral while war is holy. So many others believe that war is immoral while porn is fine.
Interestingly, people sense of morality, in regards to porn and war, tend to be negatively correlated. Peace protestors are often naked, which would offend highly (self declared) righteous people like Osama Bin […]
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Religions Teach Very Smart Form of Selfishness
Richard Dawkins, an atheist, in http://www.secularhumanism.org wonder why people are religious.
He made many arguments. To explain why people are religious, we would expect that religions would serve ones’ gene pool survival.
It doesn’t seem to be that way. Religions, for example, teach us how to
“…devours huge resources. A medieval cathedral consumed hundreds of man-centuries in its […]
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The Problem With Religions
Science, as we know, is answering many questions religion and philosophy used to answer. While scientists are typically honest and objectives, religious leaders often have some points to make that are subjective and arguably manipulative.
Scientific theories are designed to be tested with evidence. Theories that we have now are theories that, at least in the […]
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Will They Still Kill Each Other For This?
The Jews and Palestinians have killed each other over land for thousands of years.
I was wondering. The Palestinians have controlled the land for more than 1200 years. Would the Jews mind allowing them to have the land for 60 years if that means peace? Probably not.
Some are assholes and will fight. However, most Jews are […]
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I Could Have Died
I was driving home from a marriage party. My girlfriend is driving because I can’t drive. Suddenly someone yell swear words at us. Then that guy stops in front of us. We apologize not understanding what’s wrong. They claimed that my gf hit brake suddenly. They look like they want to fight and keep yelling […]
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Is Marriage Good For Women?
Is marriage good for women?
Many people want to prohibit prostitution and porn. They said those are so bad that they have to be prohibited.
So, if a woman wants to have sex, what’s the alternative for that? Marriage.
By prohibiting the alternatives, societies pretty much push people into marriage.
However, is marriage that good? I mean compared to […]
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