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Doing taxes this year will be much more painful. My local Xerxes Blockchain Group buddies attended a user group where an individuals who were advising some of the early adopters in Bitcoin and they were

No, it was awesome. No time to be afraid. You've got to try it!

I've found some arguments against evolution being random chance. This objection is fundamentally an argument by lack of imagination, or argument from incredulity: a certain explanation is seen as being

My background is in IT... You're response is both interesting and will now lead me down many rabbit holes to gain further understanding. Thank you for that. First my belief in the Big Bang Theory is shaken

I've heard this argument before. It's an interesting probability statistic, no doubt. By no means do I desire to argue against your beliefs, but I would like to present a response. My first point, there

I was unaware of the SteemIt chat service, I'm registering now. Thanks!

Nailed it. Science continues and remains the answer, not the problem. We are living in an era of "fake news". Reporting on scientfic findings are not exempt. I would add that the funding angle

First, I'm honored to have a scientist in both training and profession respond to my article. Secondly, I mean no disrespect to your profession, I'm obviously scientifically curious and enjoy reading about

Thanks Shammy! I'll definitely put up another article or two. BTW, had never heard of Ben Goldacre, but what an ace. Just finished reading an article on his site on a company paying authors for citations

I was totally expecting a horrific accident. Too funny. Keep up the good work NoOneDanger.

It's a scary thought. We simply can't grow back our body parts...yet... LOL

I've never behaved on other social media platforms like above, the profit motive really brought the worst out of me. I've since corrected my behavior. I think you were one of those that helped me see the

Absolutely great article. Hit on many great points. I am often shocked how people consider science to be 100% true without recognizing that our understanding is constantly evolving and scientific facts

Made just about each one of those mistakes when I first joined! lol/cry...

Followed! You have a bright future with the SteemIt community. Interests that speaks to others in the community, ability/desire to write and an authentic style. Good luck friend!

Absolutely - examples of just about anything one could imagine, too. Interesting article on where Markdown may go -

I've got to admit, I like your's better... I'm editing my post. ;) Thanks! (Main reason I created this article, beyond helping others with an at a glance reference, was to use it as a quick reference for

You've reeducated me, fine sir. Confirmation Bias being a concept I've learned and forgotten. More importantly, it absolutely explains away all of my comments above. Nicely done and thank you. The one

Religion seems to require one to be judgmental in order to be "faithful". Definitely some hypocrisy mixed in with most of them. Thanks for the thoughtful response.

I think there is a primordial need to believe in something greater than ourselves. Maybe it's simply an innate evolutionary design/trait that has allowed us / prevented us from screwing each other over.