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We have not had any of these discussions come up yet. We get along great, I'm actually kind of curious now what his perspective is on this whole thing. He's been here for 2 or the last 3 years (spent one in Germany). To be honest, he doesn't really care about most things (including racial...

I do not view blacks as criminals. Is it just plain stupid to label a race as being "criminal". I'm just saying that many things do affect the chances that a person is breaking the law, and race is just one of them. I don't understand why we tolerate every type of profiling other than race...

Most people in the US are white. The largest religion in the US is Christianity. What is so new about this? Any 5th grader who can read a few pie charts would come to the same conclusion.

What do you mean? They aren't following their lead. Richmond is the only city where more blacks are pulled over than whites. What am I cherry-picking? I'm just presenting you with raw data. An equal chance at what? What do you mean? No... but it does mean that they should...

Most secular scientists do not consider a young age universe because there is no explanation for its existance rather than one being "created". Many scientists today feel the need to distance any scientific ideas from "religious notions". It doesn't make a difference if you date rocks on...

:) Then you agree! I'm glad that we have this matter behind us.

Once again, quite untrue; maybe every archaeologist that you respect. The only true test that can be conducted here on earth that really hopes to give us a test about the age of the earth if it is millions of years old is radiometric dating. If this one method is flawed, than...

That's a guess, and even if it were true, that still doesn't really say anything. In all the cities except for Richmond, whites received the majority of the tickets, and the blacks received the minority. BTW, according to the 1990 census, 55.2% of the Richmond population is black...

Ahhh... that's what we were missing. In your example of 1000 people you had 200 people receiving 75% of the total tickets. That would come out to the minority receiving tickets 12X more often than whites. If minority drivers were 3 times more likely to receive tickets than whites, then the...

Where are these figures coming from? Is it the national average? From that dateline investigation, Richmand Virginia was the only city that gave more tickets to Blacks rather than whites. On average Blacks do get more tickets than white people, but I think you're over way over exaggerating this.

Just because I believe in a Creation theory of origin does not mean I hold everything that the ICR says to be true. http://www.grisda.org/origins/51006.htm This is a pretty good read and addresses your points very well.

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The only way Saddam was going to be removed from power was: 1. He was killed, either by assassination or by an accident. 2. Direct military force. Sanctions on Iraq did nothing to loosen Saddam's grip over the Iraqi people. Sanctions really only work if the ruler has the best...

Yes, a person would have to be pretty naïve to think that this doesn’t happen. To an extent though, most law enforcing agencies do have to use profiling to be even remotely efficient. In a homicide case, why is the 80 year old lady living next door to the murder victim not investigated to...

Exactly. Certain actions can be objectivly and definitively classified as "good" or "evil". People on the other hand, can not be described so easily as purely evil or good.

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Ageed. The US had virtually nothing to gain from the conflict over their. On the other hand, as cold as it sounds, the war over their did have a few benefits for the US military. Because of that war, many tactics of the military (both in combat and in civilian populations) were changed. It...

But they don't point to the same unique age. As I had stated on the last page, carbon dating distictively points to a young age earth, that's why many people ignore it when figuring the age of the universe. Redshift calculations on the other hand do point to an old age universe. Not all of...

Vietnam in itself had very little strategic value. The US involvement there was largely to combat communism. It may not have been the smartest turf to pick a fight with the commies on, but at the time the US leadership felt it was now or never. If that's what you consider a skirmish, then...

I guess it is really the only smart solution for them. What are their other options? No country involved has given any signs of complying with the kidnapper's demands. How would killing them help their cause any? As fanatical as they are, I still believe that they do put some thought into...