[ExI] Nobel laureates tell Greenpeace to stop, opposing GMOs

[John Clark]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016  Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> You don't take it far enough back


If you go back far enough then ​911 was caused by the Big Bang, but Islamic
imbecility was the
proximate cause

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> nor go into the evolutionary origins.
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​Usually there is a evolutionary advantage for children to believe what
adults tell them (don't eat that fruit, it's poison), but not when they
tell the kids that if they pilot an airliner into a skyscraper they will
get 77 virgins when they die. ​

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> Why do people even *have* the capacity to be infected by a "religious
> mind virus?
>

​The same reason cells have ​the capacity to be infected by biological
viruses, malicious code is a occupational hazard for anything that has the
ability to reproduce something, in one case its genes in the other its
ideas, and in the case of Islam very bad ideas.

 John K Clark


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