does SCIENCE a SACRED COW?
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reported as "Not in English/Not comprehensible"
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No, parscychology is NOT real science. It is superstitious nonsense. It is simply witchcraft by another name.\n\nYahoo should be ashamed for including this rot under the science banner.
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If you think science is so flawed why are you using a computer on the Internet?  You are using the machines created by the same scientists that you have so little respect for.  Doesn't that make you a hypocrite?
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Cow was very important in ancient hindu civilisation. As per true Hindu spirit, hindus gave special respect to cow as it gave them milk, her offsprings used in farming.  So besides respecting rivers to give them water, and trees to give them fruits, hindus gave a special status to cow and forbade its killing for eating purpose.\n\nMany westerners spread the rumour that hindus worship cow as God, is not correct.  Hindus respect cows as angles...for obvious reasons and protected her to protect the old hindu civilisation
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no.\n\nCurrrent scientific studies show that its genetics AND environment....not one or the other.
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Actually religion is much older than science. What the ancients could not explain otherwise was attributed to a creation of a higher power (read God). Scientists are slowly discovering the different facets of this higher power by applying science and technology
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The short answer is no. \n\nIn science, it is important that results be repeatable. This is especially true when dealing with some phenomenon like cold fusion which appears to violate all the principles that we understand. \n\nPons and Fleishman and others tried to reproduce the observations, and were unable to do so reliably. A recent review by the Department of Energy of 15 years of research and efforts in the field reached the conclusion that this phenomenon does not exist, or at least cannot be verified.
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ahhhh, yes. I am prepared for the Cows to come and destroy earth in 2086. *ahem* I am, of course, the purple cows' {"from the land of moo"} master and creator. el oh elz. so the question isnt "are you ready for the next big step in life"; it it "are YOU ready for the Cows to destroy Earth?"\n\n\nmmhmm... GO Purple COWS from the Land Of Moo!!! W00t diddly w00t w00t w00t! :)
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In some cases, yes. As can be seen with the stem cell debates that started a few years back. \n\nIt isn't just religion though, it is general social standards and responsibilities in general that can determine what is right and what is wrong when it comes to certain research.
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Slowly science is winning the war on relgious prejutices. A long time ago you would be burned at the stake for science. I believe in time hopefully sooner than later, that science will be able to correct any physical problems that humans have.
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Yes.\n\nWhy do you think in that nursery rhyme that the cow jumped over the moon?\n\nCows make the milk that make cheese. Think about it.\n\nAnd if you really believe this, I can get you a really great deal on the Washington or Brooklyn Bridge, if you're interested.
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If it is then Buddhists will just accept it. We leave origins to scientists, they understand it best....
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NO THEY CAN NOT!!!! My mother proved this at West Virginia University in the 1960s by walking a cow UP the stairs of one of the sciences buildings. The instructor said they "could" and she knew otherwise. Cows lack depth perception and will NOT walk down stairs. They had to get a crane to lift the cow out of the building.
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I feel that science is a natural path of our growth as human beings.  It helps us to grow and change and we need that.  Humans are not meant to be static!  I believe science and religion can coexist if people would seperate all the politcs from it.\n\nBlessed Be.
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Absolutely.  Religious bickering amongst people ignorant of the difference between scientific and legal and common definitions of "theory" is a downright foolish, yet these are the people making policy!!  You know it's endemic when it has reached that level...\n\nWhat SHOULD we focus on?\n\n1. MATH: This is the source of technological edge in the world.  When we trail India and China and more than 20 other countries in this area, we are BEGGING to get whacked.\n\n2. Literacy:  6th grade reading ability is no longer sufficient.  Composition skills are, as you can see on this site, abombinable.  Mean, BASIC SPELLING!!??  Reading comprehension and study skills should not be difficult to grasp either.\n\n3. Science: Sadly, many students apparently don't even know what this is, let alone know how to explain why evolution is a scientific theory and intelligent design is not.  Some scientists act pompus about it, but I see it as a reflection of the quality of science education in this country.\n\n4. Ethics:  Some moron decided this shouldn't be taught in school.  Very stupid.  This should be a required class and could be a religious outlet for some while perhaps learning how atheists COULD actually have morality without religion.\n\n5. Debate and logic:  This is NOT "uh-huh vs. nuh-huh!"  Why our presidential debates and rationales are so friggin lame (unless you'd rather see something closer to the WWF).\n\n6. History: I am SHOCKED that people don't know the connection between the Salem Witch trials and why the US has a seperation of church and state.  Perhaps there is too much time wasted on historical fantasies and not enough on historical realities.\n\nLast, but not least, we really need to pay more attention to how we REALLY compare to other countries.  Sure, Japan and China and Germany have sophisticated ways of padding their educational systems' results by sorting out the unmotivated, lackluster students into second-class vocational schools, but if China is cranking out many times more Engineering students and India is cranking out many times more Engineering students, then, Houston, we have a problem...
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I totally agree with your thinking on the first two, I have often made the Cinderella argument myself. However, mad cow disease is a real thing, BSE - Bovine (meaning cows) Spongiform Encephalitis. Encephalitis is a form of brain disease, hence the 'mad' element. The human variant is CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and can be caught from eating contaminated meat.
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ouso271wi, you're stupid, stop answering questions for people, you're just making the world ignorant. INDIANS DON'T WORSHIP COWS. The reason why the cow is consided "sacred" is because the cow can do alot to give food that helps the economy. For example, they can cutlivate farms by fertilizer and they also give us milk and other things as well.