danielsangeo

Whoa! Wait, what?!

I think it's kind of silly to go after laws because, well, if criminals aren't going to follow them anyway, why have laws at all? Also, for anyone that says that "gun control" is something liberals want, I would suggest that they not stereotype.

The_Doctor: I've tried this with a creationist I was conversing with once. I showed him multiple evidences that bacteria evolve. His response? "But they're still bacteria." I thought that was extremely telling. At least, for this person.

Earthquakes are evidence of plate tectonics. A theory is an explanation of observable phenomena. If observable phenomena is not "fact", I don't now what "fact" is.

If you do the research, it's very possible for men to lactate and nurse. (Oops, missed the last part of BrainBlow's post)

Evolution's already fact as much as gravity, thermodynamics, and germs are. He has the freedom to deny that gravity exists, but that doesn't mean he's going to survive jumping off the Empire State Building. I'm sorry if you think it's degrading the quality of the conversation, but babies do come about by the reproductive process of sperm and egg coming together, gestating in the uterus of the woman, and then being birthed. There is no stork involved. No cabbage patch. You don't get to "decide" facts.

There was once three tomatoes in Mexican-held territory which was located around the border of new new microwave. They planned a mission for invading Earth, suddenly a pirate starship, piloted by Captain Figunaye, appeared in the twisted transistor. "Photon cannons, ready?"

Let me take issue here. Atheism is not the absence of belief in the supernatural because "theism" is not the belief in the supernatural (not sure what word that would be..anyone know any Latin? ). Atheism is solely the absence of belief in a deity. Atheists can surely believe in other supernatural elements, though....Ghosts, reincarnation, vampires, werewolves...that sort of thing.

And why keep it to science? Why should the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle be the sum of the squares of the remaining two lines? I say, Christopher Columbus didn't sail to North America in 1492; he flew to Japan in his gyroprop in 1942. I say, teach the controversy! The Egyptians didn't build the pyramids; it was space aliens! Let our children decide the truth! I am not being sarcastic here. This is truly what creationists want.

I think the big problem is that there are just so many religions and so many denominations in each religion, you'd need to major in it in college to scratch the tip of the iceberg (I think I mixed my metaphors). And, it definitely should not be taught as science until one of the religions can meet the basic requirements to be considered "science".

A-he-he-hem.... Do you know what a "theory" is (in this context)?

The theory of evolution also says "why" we are the way we are, too.

The problem is: Evolution HAS been witnessed. And it's witnessed every day by every single person on the planet.

I apologize if I insulted you; it was not my intention. I was mainly elaborating if anyone didn't know. It's just how I do things. If I repeat something you already know, just ignore it because my intention is to clarify for anyone reading this that doesn't know what I or you are talking about. Easier to do it in thread than have someone stop what they're doing and research a word or topic. I talk in person or in private (one-on-one) differently than I talk in 'public'. It's just my way. Again, I apologize. This assumes that they would ever deploy the nukes. The best defense is a good offense. I'm not saying that we won't get our ass kicked, but it doesn't mean that will be destroyed either...and if you kick our ass, baby, you'd better be ready to meet any maker you might believe in! I would say to them "Try not to worry about it; we've got our best minds working around the clock to protect us from harm." This kind of stuff has been happening since the "caveman" days. And we're still here. As for pollution, we can stop it from happening. Right now. But certain ideological forces say that it would cost too much money and cost jobs. The technology is there (again) to stop the pollution that technology created....if only we'd use it.

I think you're watching too many Hollywood movies. Real life doesn't work that way. And, inherent in this, is MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction. Anyone that launches a nuke will be nuked back. Watch the movie WarGames (for a semi-realistic idea of MAD). This has to do with money, not technology. This has to do with ideology, not technology.

Um, methinks you got the wrong thread.

Because it is the foundation of 99.999999% of dates used in supporting Evolution. Now, where did you get that?

Thankfully, multiple dating methods are used. Some of the dating methods used: Argon-argon Helium Isochron Lead-lead Potassium-argon Rhenium-osmium Rubidium-strontium Samarium-neodymium Uranium-lead Uranium-thorium Uranium-uranium There are more, but that should give you a pretty good idea. All these radiometric data agree.

I'm sure that, by the time we perfect it to that extent, we'll also be able to "get out of it", as it were.... like I said earlier, if they build a better mouse, we build a better mouse trap. Remember: Just because they advance doesn't mean that we won't.

I can't find this word at all. Might want to check the spelling.

Well, you could be a flavor of deist (one who believes in an intelligent being that created everything but is now totally "hands off"). Me, I don't know what 'created' the 'unstable ''thing'' that was the universe', but I do not believe that it was an intelligent force nor that it was necessarily 'created' at all.

I don't believe in deities. The very existence of everything from panentheism to pantheism to monotheism to polytheism to monism to deism to....whatever... just shows that we humans like to make shit up when we don't know something. Me, I say "I don't know". I'm not going to ascribe it to a deity though. I am an atheist. I do not believe in deities. I don't believe that the "driving force" of the universe is a deity. I do not believe that nature is a deity. I do NOT believe in deities! Good night!

Some Christians would beg to differ with you. Once again, you're positing an "intelligence" when you refer to God...a sentient "being" as it were. Christians state that "God made man in His own image". Therefore, God is necessarily human-shaped. I posit that the "driving force" is completely "unintelligent"....or, rather, LACKS intelligence. It isn't sentient and didn't create this universe for us. Monotheists (and polytheists) believe that there is a sentient "being" that created this universe for us, directing its creation for us.

Thanks! I am an agnostic atheist. And I'm in bed right now.... Laptops are the work of the devil!

But, really, at this point, calling my computer chair "god" doesn't mean I believe in "god" simply because I believe in my computer chair.