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Discussion

1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumour, or the like.

2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties.

(Science: mathematics) (Macaulay) discussion of a problem or an equation, the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result.

Origin: L. Discussio a shaking, examination, discussion: cf. F. Discussion.


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Re: sterilization in microwave oven

Yes I stand corrected. It is disinfection not sterilisation. I do not wish to invite discussion about adequate care of contact lenses. What I described was from a time long ago when thermal disinfection was the only approved method of contact lens disinfection and ...

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by brzezinski2
Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:32 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: sterilization in microwave oven
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... are the same species, and each unique breed is a subspecies. I will put camels back in when I find more information. If there is a scientist level discussion of reclassifying them as a single species then I can mention it in the theory. But at this point it's hard to say which way that will go.

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:51 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Re: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... significant contributions to knowledge that affect the constituent disciplines. I disagree with you, and find this topic to necessarily include a discussion of biological concepts in order for it to exist. So I suppose my question is, even if it wasn't specifically 100% on biology, why would that ...

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by jeremyo
Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:39 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
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Re: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... what needs to go because it is another science-stopper. Be more class time spent teaching how things work by skipping the boring class lecture and discussion on a philosophy based political statement that does not help understand our origins any better. Or helps anyone get a proper explanation ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:44 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
Replies: 18
Views: 445

Re: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... #1 StevenA Posted: Jan 18 2008, 07:42 AM Positive I see the troll couldn't handle having it's cage rattled Nothing like a good outside-of-the-box discussion to rile them up. Good work! Alpha Posted: Jan 18 2008, 02:04 AM Negative Feedback Massacre - Part 1 N O M Posted: Jan 17 2008, 09:01 AM Negative ...

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by GaryGaulin
Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:50 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
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