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RE: Masturbation = Zinc Depletion
Not really... You need a big enough sample size to come to scientifically valid conclusions. I'd like to read a peer-reviewed scientific paper about it. Or, ideally, several of them.
How big is big enough and how small is too small? If there are trillions and trillions of aliens, or other humans, on planets, in other galaxies, in parallel universes, then how can any number be suffice as we humans here, when compared with them? Subjectively speaking, you can argue either way, and doing so degrades science. If somebody kills you, is there a valid conclusion if you were the only one killed?
Google "representative sample size". There are mathematical models for it.
Science seems to be your religion. The scientific method are things people do. You seem to assume that everything scientists say and do are flawless, perfect, in how they go about experimenting, in testing theories. One example is the Carbon-14 Dating.
Science is not a religion. Let me explain:
Science does not create facts. It creates hypotheses, which are tested and formulated until they are disproven by more recent scientific tests (e.g. when other, more precise methods are available). Thus, a scientist's perception of the world is ever-changing, though some theories such as the theory of gravitation (gravity) have been around for a while and seem to work perfectly fine on Earth (I usually don't float around after jumping but fall back to the ground - this is gravity). Do you land on the ground after jumping or do you hover/fly? If you don't fly, chances are that science also works where you live.
A few more examples:
Do you take aspirin when you have a headache?
That's applied science - thanks to biochemistry, I don't have to have a headache anymore.
Do you use toothpaste?
Thanks to chemists (and dentists), my teeth are healthy. I hope yours are, too!
Do you use a computer of some sort or a smartphone? (Or any other technical device? Or a car or public transport perhaps?)
You probably do. Thanks to physicists and engineers, who "believe" in science, you can post unscientific stuff on the internet and travel the world - or just commute to work.
Oh, and just because of the whole Adam and Eve thing:
Have you ever heard of inbreeding?
If not, google the Habsburg lip -this happens when people marry their cousins and have children with them.
If we assume that all humans have one couple (Adam and Eve) as their common ancestors, we would look a lot worse than we do. (Btw: You'll find more about the results of inbreeding - or incest as it is called among humans - here, here, and here:
If Adam and Eve are our common ancestors, chances are that inbreeding/incest must have occurred. We'd be pretty much doomed if that was the case.
Perhaps you should just get your exegesis right. Have a nice weekend - I'll be out and about helping others and having a great time with my friends instead of arguing with strangers on the internet. I hope you will, too!
Fluoride is bad. Look at http://AnswerinGenesis.org because they tell you things you are not talking about and that is too bad as you are distracted and you are distracting people from knowing the whole story about many things and religion is a supernatural, spiritual, philosophy, on life, in how we live, in what we think and believe, and science is natural philosophy as opposed to supernatural philosophy but both science and religion are forms of philosophy but religion is at the root of what science is all about and there is always more to life than what we see and think and feel and know and therefore we can either accept that or live in ignorance.
You don't even bother to give my valid arguments. There's no proof of what you're saying. You're only accusing me of being distracted.
Everything you say is right and everything I say is wrong because you said it and that is the only thing that matters is what you said and what others that you agree with says. I point you to people who disagree and you say they are not right. So, they are wrong and you are right because you said they are wrong and people agree with you and many people disagree with you but those many people are wrong because you say they are wrong.
In German we have a word for this. It's called "mimimimi" (it's a little bit like the sound that Beaker makes - the one from the Muppet Show). Give me the statistically valid results of an experiment based on scientific mehods and I'll change my mind. Until then, have a great time on Steemit! I'm out of this at this point.