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Comment Re:where is the controversy? (Score 1, Insightful) 642

Curious, where does it say the earth is the center of the universe in the Bible?

Oh, probably around Genesis 1:1.

Actually, the whole chapter. It says much about the creation of the earth, and very little about the creation of any other celestial object. In other words, Genesis Chapter 1 is geocentric.

Comment Re:Designed? (Score 1, Troll) 224

The brain was not designed for reading

It wasn't designed for anything.

Beg pardon but the brain was designed for survival of the genotype, just like the rest of the organism. It just wasn't designed by who-you-think-it-wasn't.

There are genes which have an impact on language development if faulty or missing, but are they necessarily "genes for language"?

You betcha. A rather well-established survival strategy among humans is spoken language. A newer and less-well-established strategy is written language. It's those new things that undergo the most rapid natural selection. So yeah, "genes for language".

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