I used to work for Postini and interestingly enough, not everyone agrees about false positives. In Europe (particularly the UK), culturally they seem to be much more sensitive to false *negatives* -- i.e. they'd rather patrol their quarantine looking for false positives than get even one spam in their inbox. Strange, but true.

I'm with the OP on this. As the father of a 5 and a 3 year old, I know from experience that I can't tell the 3 year old to pick up the blocks, but I can point to a block, tell him to pick up *that* block, and then point to the bucket and tell him to put the block in the bucket. Then I can repeat the process x times where x equals the number of blocks on the floor.

So as the OP said, if these eggheads would just have kids, they would know the outcome of their "research" through experience and intuition.

Not that having kids would get the grant money, of course.

The fundamental flaw in logic on both sides of this argument is the claim to know that which is unknowable. I, for one, am perfectly fine with not being able to comprehend such mysteries. When I meet Jesus, I'm sure it will all be explained to me. Yes, Virginia, Christians can be intelligent too... flame on.

Uh huh. And that makes him an idiot, or a kook, right? Before you answer: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/05/15/obama-faith-flier-hints-at-general-election-strategy/

And just think, when the Google street view dude was snapping the shots along that road, her body was down in the ravine...

*shudder*