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There aren't any scientific anti-Darwinist theories around. There is anti-Darwinist rhetoric around, and it relies on bad logic and pseudoscience. Funny thing is, they keep using the same phony arguments that were debunked decades ago. The ones commonly repeated are: life is too...

Yes, all plants have a common ancestor and it's shared with animals (along with everything else). Now they wouldn't have been the first single celled organisms, but they would have been single celled eukaryotes. The important change occurred with the ability to use photosynthesis, perhaps...

Yes, there's something called the plasma concentration curve which monitors how quickly a drug is absorbed and how quickly it's eliminated. There's something called the minimum effective concentration and the minimum toxic concentration and doctors and pharmacists try to keep the drug...

I've not positive on this, but consider how sex evolved in the first place. You've got little organisms that can reproduce asexually, but they can also shoot their dna into organisms. You've also got organisms that can accept foriegn DNA and use it to their own advantage. So basically...

Perhaps you mean the human musculoskeletal system? We've got particularly bad lower backs, due to how we evolved to become bipedal. I can really be more specific than that, but it accounts for why so many suffer from lower back pain. There's also the problem with women's hips. Infants...

Actually groups 14 and 15 are noted for having widely different chemical properties compared to the same group, compared to, say, the alkali metals, halogens, and nobel gases. With group 14 you've got the nonmetal carbon, the metalloid silicon, and the metals lead and tin. You wouldn't say...

Using something different than DNA- seems fine to me. I've read early organisms used RNA before DNA came around. Gaseous organisms- seems ridiculous for already mentioned reasons. "smell" organisms? Does the person who suggested this understand how the sense of smell works? organisms...

Well organic solvents will asphyxiate you and cause you to pass out. I don't really think that's the same thing as inducing sleep though.

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Plutonium? That would be a neat trick, since the Ancient Egyptians would have needed a time machine in order to go into the 20th century AD to get plutonium and then gone back to rub it on those wrappings. It's not like you could just go into a corner pyramid and buy the stuff. If they had...

Technically, narcotics are drugs that induce sleep or stupor. "Narkos" would be greek for "sleep." So Tylenol PM would be a narcotic, all though it's more commonly used to refer to the opiates, like heroin or morphine (from Morpheus, greek god of dreams). Unfortunately, 'narcotics' more...

f-f-f-f-l-l-i-i-i-i-i-p f-f-f-l-l-o-o-p Nope. I can't say it.

So are you telling me that if Saddam Hussein used the excuse "but I never signed the protocol banning the use of nerve gas" that you'd say, "well, I guess he's got a point, no harm, no foul." God, I can never believe the nerve of some people. We start a war because (or so they say) Saddam...

1. The people who are actually rioting disagree with you. 2. Discrimination is widespread. That's why there's the segregation.

But the rioters are angry because they want to work, and they're not being allowed to due to discrimination.