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The believer
Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and what C.S. Lewis has to do with it.
By Steve Paulson [2006-08-07]

  • Murder

    >The argument is that they will avoid at all

    >costs the charge of and penalty for murder.

    Given that the typical penalty for committing murder is either imprisonment for a very long time or death, what kind of an idiot *wouldn't* try to avoid such a penalty?

    All this proves is that most people aren't crazy as a run over dog or dumb as a box of rocks (though there are certainly plenty of exceptions!).

    -- sunspot
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    Monday, August 7, 2006 07:34 PM
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