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Natural Selection... as opposed to... what, exactly? Everything is "Natural", is it not? Else, what? "Supernatural"? Let's drop the qualifier. The same "selection" that operates on our Earth-based organisms operates on vast clouds of dust and massive bodies and the cores of stars and the...

Went to the health food store today. I like many of their products--not the untested herbs, mind you--just the cosmetics, clothing, and food. But the odd people...and the woo...! So anyhoo....I pass next to this woman who is literally bent over in pain, just as she's saying, "So it's just...

So my mother , who is not exactly the most skeptical person on earth ( i could go on for pages but i digress.) is going to spend about 75 dollars for a bottle of this natural health product for dogs that is supposed to be as good as a dental cleaning. Now unfortunately besides things put out...

Are unnatural drugs (most notably anti-depressants) over prescribed today (and since the 70s), especially in the good ol' US of A? Do people often overlook the fact that hiking, running, swimming reasonably offer a cleaner way to healthier living, as opposed to drugs such as MAOIs and SSRIs...

Is there something fundamentally different between artificial light, in its general and broadest sense, and natural light, or is light simply ... well, light?

I've been a bit congested lately, so in my shower this morning I lingered in the steam a little while and passed the time by reading labels of stuff in the shower. I generally use Dr. Bronner's almond soap because its both mild and very effective. The label is great reading, too. But, thats...

If god(s) exist, would your worldview consider them to be natural objects?

Did mathematics begin with the first humans seeing regularities in the natural world? If many natural phenomena, the majority, occurred at random it seems the math we use wouldn't be able to describe it, making it largely useless. For example if you went by spaceship to another galaxy and...

Just a thought that occured to me - as we develop our medicines and our sciences, keeping people alive longer and allowing people longer and healthier, active lives with genetic flaws that would have eliminated them, years ago - have we actually managed to outgrow natural selection? Is the...

As seen in the commentary: "There exists right now an extensive and powerful global community that puts everyone in touch, enables almost-instantaneous transfer of data and ideas, and forces reality on us all. It’s getting harder to be a fool. Those religious zealots who choose to mumble...

In the current issue of Natural History Magazine http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/ there are multiple pro/con/debate articles of interest on Intelligent Design and Evolution including introductory articles by Dawkins and Behe. Keep scrolling on Position statement intro by Behe: and………...

They contain real ingredients and there is a good chance they'll actually work. We can't have that now, can we? :oldroll: http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/13/impotence.supplement.ap/index.html

I've been having this argument with my mother. She states that, although she fully acknowledges that homosexuals are fine people, she is absolutely revolted at the thought of them even kissing, much less having sex, where she is not revolted at the thought of a man and woman kissing/having sex...

http://imnh.isu.edu/index.htm http://imnh.isu.edu/News/Bigfoot_web.pdf Title says it all.

Theists have a habit of automatically invoking free will when faced with the question of human suffering. However it is obvious that there is a large amount of suffering that has natural causes and is not due to the abuse of free will. For example earthquakes, cyclones, disease etc. Now to...

A new commercial for 7-Up got me a bit riled- It shows workers picking 7-Up cans from trees, placing them in baskets, growing them in groves of 7-Up, etc... Then it ended with the phrase: "7-Up: Now all natural!" This is a sickeningly misleading claim. All that the "all natural ingredients"...

My wife and kid and I were just in Fort Erie Ontario visiting her family last week and we decided to take my kid and a couple of his cousins across the border into Buffalo to check out the Nat History Museum (They have dinosaur skeletons there, so the kids were really keen on going.) I had...

I won't berate the former prosecutor for those sentiments; if there is a hell, surely this person belongs there. However, Forgive me for missing something here; the closure is there either way. What difference does it make whether he simply died or was executed? The result is the same - the...

What is the most powerful naturally occuring (i.e. one that does not require a high level of technology to process) hallucinogen we know of? How about any that have a potentially very long shelf life?

Sorry to start up a thread so soon after starting the previous, but it got me to thinking about the things that are being discovered about various dietary ingredients that help, but aren't in the pharmeceutical bailywick, and equally aren't appealing to Homeopaths because they aren't rare...

The generations to come have so much joy to experience even if the sunsets are not able to be seen because of a nuclear winter either caused by us or other natural factors. I just do not understand how someone can say something is not natural when everything we create is and always will be...

Folks, I cannot find any information comparing natural gas to propane in terms of btu efficiency. It's my understanding that there is a difference between the two, so that a device rated at one btu output will actually produce less depending on which fuel is used. Can anyone help? I can't...

Article on MSNBC.com about Kevin Trudeau, his Natural Cures book and current legal battles

At least, that seems to be the opinion of some fundamentalist Muslims: Then later on it says: So it seems this targeting of womens education is widespread. Barefoot and pregnant, that's how they need to be kept.

I read sometimes on these forums when woos talk about the amazing and wonderful aspects of their beliefs. Some even scoff at us when we tell them about the amazing and wonderful aspects of science and the natural world. Well, next time a woo should scoff, perhaps some of you may want to show...

This is something that really stumps me, why hasn't Natural Selection weeded out these genes? Why do I have OCD(although non existant with the medication. Thank you science.) and all the other mental disorders that people have? Also why hasn't Natural Selection weeded out the capacity to be...

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Perhaps this has come up before, but I am interested in hearing what some might think when someone makes the accusation that drilling for oil in the arctic, clearing trees in Brazil, hunting a species to extinction, etc. is not natural and is therefore harmful to the environment and should be...

A very interesting article regarding natural rememdies appeared in The Times this week. I must confess that I always regarded such rememdies as pure quackery although risk free. Not so, according to the article: It's one thing debasing yourself and surrendering your dignity by putting your...

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2906021,00.html At least he is being arrested. Naturopathy is supposed to be "natural" for your perfect 'natural lifestyle'. As usual, it is dangerous and a ploy to get your money under the guise of being better for you than...