/sci/ - Science & Math

A lot of STEM people misunderstand the term “social construct." The permitters of what constitutes a race can be defined culturally, but it can also reflect genuine DNA differences. Culturally people can talk about "the Aryan race," or "the white race" or "the Caucasian race," and each one of those groups can reflect different taxonomical categories despite people using the term "race" to refer to all of them.

If the question is whether groups of people who evolved together in relative isolation for a certain period of time share a higher portion of their DNA (or particular strands), then the answer is obviously yes.

>>5312840
>because it's the simplest.
And also takes the shade of the inner shape into account, which vertical symmetry doesn't if you look at the left column

>black triangle, clear rectangle, shaded circle
>shaded rectangle, black circle, clear triangle
>black circle, shaded triangle.....
Think about it, we know the outer shape is a triangle because that's the only option. We also know that the inner shape is a rectangle because that's also the only missing shape. So either a shaded inner rectangle or a clear one. Now, from the emerging pattern, is it more likely that the color is black, which already appeared earlier in the row, or that the color is white, which hasn't appeared in this row yet but has appeared in every other? Vertical symmetry only works if you ignore the color of the inner shape, while horizontal symmetry works taking both the shape and color into account. D is the right answer because it's the simplest.

Sup bro. Just changing the entire human perception of life and existence overnight.

>>4370696
>better relegated to literary fiction ala Dostoevsky and Camus than actual academia.
Is this nigga serious?

>>4365976
>It's all better than humanities/liberal arts.
This is why science and math get shunned so often. They think you have to be an emotionally-retarded autist to see any value in it.

>>4365957
>You're delusional, too. Every person with a doctorate in medicine can be considered a scientist.
HA
I've written a few poems and drew a bit in high school. Am I an artist?

>>4365862
>what /lit/ would actually believe

>>4150870
I don't have a library.nu account. Anyone have a kindle-compatible download?

>>4150675
Berlin, October 24, 1933, Hitler stated: "We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."

http://books.google.com/books?id=PxZoAAAAMAAJ


"The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive Christianity. It will be its honest endeavour to protect both the great Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference with their doctrines (Lehren), and in their duties to constitute a harmony with the views and the exigencies of the State of to-day"


^ Baynes, Norman H. ed. (1969). The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939. Vol. 1. New York: Howard Fertig. p. 385.

>>4150669
When the fuck did Catholicism stop being a subset of Christianity?

>>4150651
You can't possible be this stupid...His foot solders were Christian, he had Vatican support, he blamed Jews for the killing of Christ, the Nazi slogan was "God With Us," and he sent certain outspoken non-believers to work camps.

You can argue that was wasn't a "good Christian" but you can't possibly call him an atheist.

>>4150626
Hitler wasn't an atheist through. He was a Roman Catholic, mixed with some old-world German pagan mysticism.

Even if he wasn't (he was) how would you explain Atheists being treated like shit during his regime?

>>4150584
Fair enough. I just blows my mind how often this myth is dissipated, ever after it's been disproved countless times. Christfags can still use Stalin and Mao for their logical fallacies.

Holy fucking shit, people still think Hitler was an Atheist? Much of the justification for killing Jews was Biblical.

Fuck the afterlife, he'll be made eternal by his writings.

"If Jerry Falwell had been given an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox"

Goodnight you brilliant, brilliant man.

Fuck the afterlife, he'll be made eternal by his writings.

"If he had been given an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox"

Goodnight you brilliant, brilliant man.

>>4146147
Nigga, get off of 4chan and try harder.

>>4134624
Religion is just shitty old philosophy, like alchemy is just shitty old chemistry, or astrology is just shitty old astronomy.

>>4136676
Pretty much

>>4136655
>implying a well-realized intersection between both liberal arts and the sciences aren't necessary for a well-rounded person.
>implying Einstein didn't play the violin

It isn't either-or.

>>4136503
Holy fuck...they're hideous. Is it because they don't care about their appearance, or is it their appearance that drives them to loneliness and mathematics?

>>4110919
Evolution HAS been observed and tested
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-lizard-evolution.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breeding

It's just impossible to observe one species turning into another on a macro scale because it would take so long.

>>4110897
That's because observational science experiments typically don't last millions of years....

Anyways, arguing with a creationist is like trying to teach differential calculus to a cat. It's physically impossible.