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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf

USA
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Posted - 05/25/2012 :  08:50:44  Show Profile  Visit ThorGoLucky's Homepage Send ThorGoLucky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Science!

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/health/Md-teen-wins-national-prize-for-creating-pancreatic-cancer-test/-/9379230/13708906/-/7lcc5n/-/index.html#.T75v8ef5uDw.facebook

"The teen's mom said she raised her kids to be inquisitive and look for answers."

When I posted this on my Facebook page, I poked fun at a friend's advocacy of "embracing the mystery".

HalfMooner
Dingaling

Philippines
15831 Posts

Posted - 05/25/2012 :  10:42:45   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by ThorGoLucky

Science!

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/health/Md-teen-wins-national-prize-for-creating-pancreatic-cancer-test/-/9379230/13708906/-/7lcc5n/-/index.html#.T75v8ef5uDw.facebook

"The teen's mom said she raised her kids to be inquisitive and look for answers."

When I posted this on my Facebook page, I poked fun at a friend's advocacy of "embracing the mystery".

That's great!
. . .

Andraka said the inspiration came from an uncle who died of the disease. He said the idea came to him in biology class.

"That's what's really cool about science to me -- you can affect other people's lives. You can basically do anything with science," the teen winner said.

. . .
Note, the inspiration did not come in a Creation Science class.

Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9688 Posts

Posted - 05/26/2012 :  11:01:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
That's so awesome.
If there was a Nobel-prize lite, this guy deserves it, provided it sticks.

Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3

"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder.
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sailingsoul
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2830 Posts

Posted - 05/26/2012 :  13:57:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send sailingsoul a Private Message  Reply with Quote
A genuinely remarkable feat, to say the least.
He said he did his work in the Johns Hopkins lab of Dr. Anirban Maitra, who said yes to Andraka
after 200 other researchers had turned him down.

And he also defined "persistence".

Originally posted by HalfMooner

Note, the inspiration did not come in a Creation Science class.
Right! I guess that "Creation Science" class does teach for effective miraculous intervention, the correct prayer posture and properly pathetic pleas to the geographically correct and most currently popular Deity.

There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS
Edited by - sailingsoul on 05/26/2012 20:46:18
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