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Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate... by gnaritas on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:59PM (#7321812)
You can't have a reasoned debate about evolution; reasonable people already know it's a fact and don't dispute it. Only unreasonable people are still disputing a basic fact of the world discovered well over 100 years ago.
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Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate... by dllthomas on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:36PM (#7322498)
You're presuming a lot about people's exposure to various ideas. A reasonable person surrounded by unreasonable people, who has - of course - encountered talk of evolution but almost exclusively absurd caricatures isn't going to "already know it's a fact".
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Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate... by gnaritas on Sunday March 02, 2014 @11:53AM (#7329726)
If they graduated high school, they were exposed to the facts regardless of who they're around. Anyone who doesn't know evolution is reality is not a person of reason.
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Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate... by dllthomas on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:00AM (#7340160)
"If they graduated high school, they were exposed to the facts regardless of who they're around."

Unfortunately that's basically false.

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