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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27009)	12/15/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Craig Richards	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Bob, Check out dailynews.yahoo.com. The American Psychiatric Association does not share your views on homosexuality. Their board voted unanimously that homosexuality is not a disease, and that anyone who portrays it as such contributes to their depression and anxiety. Maybe the homosexuals with personality disorders that you referred to have been hanging out with conservative Christians for too long and have become anxious and distressed. I guess this might be why healthy homosexuals often try to stay as far away from conservative Christians as they can. Craig

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27009)	12/16/1998 1:30:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 108807

I can tell from your reply that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a mutation is. An individual bacterium does not "learn" to become resistant to a drug. One or more bacteria in a group of millions has a chance resistance to that drug and is thus different from all of the others. It also has slightly different DNA. If it didn't then it would be just as susceptible to the drug as the others, who all die. The survivors , with the modified DNA, then multiply into the millions and they are now a potent new threat. It is indeed a mutation whether you like it or not. Conversly, our immune system does indeed "learn" to fight off a new invader that is a threat to us. There is no change to our DNA, and I don't know of anybody who said there was. The two processes are entirely different. Del

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (27009)	12/19/1998 8:45:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

<So they found another skeleton. So what. Who knows what it was when alive. Maybe it was another species that God created and that died out over time. And it has two arms and two legs so the flat earthers are going to give it a name and write a lot of papers.> The big deal is that it is more ape than human, further back on the evolutionary scale. You have argued before that the "missing links" will never be found because they do not exist, and this evidence refutes that argument. Don't you Christians dispute that humans branched off from simians at some point, and gradually developed into fully erect modern humans with big brains? Don't you believe that God created man in his own image forty thousand years ago, when the planet was created, and that we never shared a common ancestry with other animals? I am not sure who you are calling flat earthers, but it sounds like you are being derogatory towards scientists. I thought that the flat earthers were the belivers in superstition and myth, not science. Now I am really confused!