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People are so gullible. Tithing...

Funny how "the poor" are too poor to pay income taxes, but apparently not too poor to pay a 10 percent God tax of dubious legitimacy.

I agree that there's some degree of culpability. However, the US is no better when it comes to killing children in Iraq or Afghanistan, so why sensationalize the aid to Israel as some sort of "blood money" when our tax dollars are doing much worse?
I personally think the US should stop funding Israel and other countries until we get our own fiscal house in order. Can't help anyone when you're broke.

I guess no-one understands what you're saying then, including you

I understand what you're saying, you're just wrong.
The fact that genetic causes play an important part in antisocial and criminal behavior is no longer in doubt. It just isn't - for example, see Raine 1997.
There is ample scientific evidence of brain abnormalities (frontal and temporal dysfunction) contributing to aggression, violent behavior, impulsivity, behavioral disinhibition and poor concentration. There's also evidence that these brain abnormalities can be caused by genetic, biological, or environmental agents.
Of course, nothing is determined by genes alone, but a genetic predisposition to commit murder does exist, I'm afraid.

I think it is fair to say that mawilson has achieved full
age.

Are you saying there's no relationship? Wow, you're more deluded than I thought
Here's a list of papers on the subject from a wider range of scientific journals - from Heredity to Behavior Genetics and Nature Genetics.
The Behavior Genetics journal shouldn't even exist according to you, since it "disseminates ... research on the inheritance and evolution of behavioral characteristics in humans and other species ... focus on both the application of various genetic perspectives to the study of behavioral characteristics and the influence of behavioral differences on the genetic structure of populations."

And yet, it is studied.
According to PH, genetic links to human constructs - such as work values or entrepreneurship - cannot be studied. I proved her wrong.

From the same paper:
"...genetic factors influence a variety of business-related outcomes, from job satisfaction (Arvey et al, 1989) to vocational interests (Betsworth et al, 1994), to work values (Keller et al, 1992)...
Arvey, R., Bouchard, T., Segal, N., and Abraham, L. 1989. Job satisfaction: Environmental and genetic components. Journal of Applied Psychology 74(2) 187-192.
Betsworth, D, Bouchard, T., Cooper, C., Grotevant, H., Hansen, J., Scarr, S., and Weinberg, R. 1994.
Genetic and environmental influences on vocational interests assessed using adoptive and biological families and twins reared together and apart. Journal of Vocational Behavior 44 263-278.
Keller, L., Bouchard, T., Arvey, R., Segal, N., and Dawes, R. 1992. Work values: genetic and environmental influences. Journal of Applied Psychology 77(1) 79-88.
Work values! A human construct, imagine that!

It never is, but genes do play an important role.
By the way, here's one group of scientists who claim that people with parents with certain genetic components are more likely to become entrepreneurs.
Let me guess, you and PH are going to dismiss their research as rubbish.
IS THE TENDENCY TO ENGAGE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP GENETIC?
ABSTRACT
We used quantitative genetics techniques to compare the entrepreneurial activity of 870 pairs of
monozygotic (MZ) and 857 pairs of same-sex dizygotic (DZ) twins from the United Kingdom. We ran
model fitting analyses to estimate the genetic, shared environmental, and non-shared environmental
effects on the propensity of people to become entrepreneurs. We found relatively high heritabilities for
entrepreneurship across different operationalizations of the phenomenon, with little effect of family
environment and upbringing. Our findings suggest the importance of considering genetic factors in
explanations for why people engage in entrepreneurial activity.

She didn't. Fish is a little sensitive about wealth and success. He considers himself intelligent, yet he's not wealthy, so any suggestion of a correlation between wealth and intelligence strikes a personal chord with him.

Guys...Mark may say some really strange stuff sometimes, but he is not amoral. I know he comes off as a complete a$$ at times, and sometimes he IS definitely a complete a$$, but everyone has their arsey or bitchy moments. He's even been on my sh*t list more than a few times since we've been friends. What I do know for sure is no matter what any of you think or how he comes off on here, he is truly a very kind and very generous person who thinks through and considers all things before he says or does them.

Interesting double standard. I don't remember you dismissing any posts about Israel bombing Gaza as non-events because stuff like that "happens every day".

To quote a recent episode of Glee,
"But Kurt, how do you know for sure? I mean, you can't prove that there's no God."
-"You can't prove that there isn't a magic teapot floating around on the dark side of the moon with a dwarf inside of it that reads romance novels and shoots lightning out of its boobs, but it seems pretty unlikely, doesn't it?"

What do you know about logic, you're religious!