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"God of the Gaps"

explains the concept of God based on a god filling in the missing links, or gaps, between what we do not understand or know. Evolution before its theory was explained by the concept of a god. When an...
16:36 Sat 12th Nov 200529 answers, last by fantastical 19:00 Tue 15th Nov 2005
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a unilateral afterlife

Heaven and hell do not really exist as independent concepts - they only do in our minds. Up/down, hot/cold, ugly/beautiful, good/bad - human predispositions to always need to dichotomise dimensions....
06:21 Mon 24th Oct 200513 answers, last by mimififi 23:29 Mon 24th Oct 2005
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Gravity - Spinning = differences?

If the inward-gravitational force is equal across all points on Earth, and different points on Earth spin at different rates, depending on the lattitudinal position, what are, if any, the differences...
16:42 Sun 16th Oct 200527 answers, last by fantastical 23:03 Sat 22nd Oct 2005
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brief sensations of pain

so...i was standing around the other day, and all of a sudden I feel this brief sensation of near-excruciating pain on the conjoint of my eye and nose (basically where they meet). It was short, 10 or...
02:27 Sat 24th Sep 20051 answer, last by andy hughes 11:24 Sat 24th Sep 2005
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How does muscle tissue grow?

Re the recent discussion in 'body and soul,' how does human muscle tissue grow - i.e. get bigger? It starts with transmission of ATP at the cellular level, right...energy for growth?
05:59 Tue 23rd Aug 20051 answer, last by Calvesy 10:16 Tue 11th Oct 2005
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Gravity and Strings

Per the question on string theory, I read the first link offered in the responses, but am still unclear on the relationship between gravity and strings? I do understand we are speaking on a quantum...
04:37 Mon 22nd Aug 20053 answers, last by Xeranox 08:22 Thu 25th Aug 2005
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time relativity

In a 1-year passage of time, a 50-year-old person lives through 2% of his life. In the same time period, a 5-year-old child lives through 20% of his life. How does a person's conception of time depend...
02:57 Sat 15th Jan 200513 answers, last by fantastical 20:48 Wed 19th Jan 2005
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calling all women!!

To the female ABer's: What are some questions or topics that you like to talk to men about (or like to have men ask you or say to you) when first meeting and talking with them in a social setting? I...
02:15 Sat 15th Jan 20057 answers, last by Englishbird 16:01 Mon 17th Jan 2005
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evolution by collision?

who agrees with the theory that since the earth is oscillating back and forth across an arm of the Milky Way galaxy (every 26 million years or so, proven by gravitational calculations), and it...
23:38 Thu 18th Nov 20047 answers, last by BillyBB 02:27 Fri 03rd Dec 2004

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