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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Yeah, fascinating to be sure...but I'm tired of articles like this that say things like "ethanol produces more hydrocarbons than gasoline. And ozone is the product of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide cooking in the sun."
Ethanol and gasoline ARE hydrocarbons, the statement doesn't make sense in the way they present it.
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Ethanol is not actually a hydrocarbon, it's an alcohol, which are hydrocarbon derivatives. It doesn't seem like much, but substituting that one hydrogen for an oxygen really changes a lot of a substance's properties.
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Everyone knows scientists insist on using complex terminology to make it harder for True Christians to refute their claims.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid, for example... sounds impressive, right? But have you ever seen what happens if you put something in acid? It dissolves! If we had all this acid in our cells, we'd all dissolve! So much for the Theory of Evolution, Check MATE! 
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