KenBrace

As far as I am concerned Jesus Christ is no different than Homer, Nebuchadnezzar, or Genghis Khan. They were real figures that walked the earth. They were not, however, gods or the son of a god.

Which side of the fence are you on?

He is neither. He was an ordinary man like Muhammad or the Buddha that had a unique message and inspired people. He started a following and was executed for disturbing the peace. His followers viewed him as a martyr and kept the new belief system going. It became an established religion during the time of emperor Constantine.

I don't have a problem with a belief in God that is like Einstein's or is a deist view. What I don't like is the fundamentalist religious views. People need to snap out of it and stop believing that Jonah lived in a whale's belly for three days and God created the universe 6,000 years ago with magic.

Of course Jesus was a real person. The only thing that is false information are the miracles he was said to have performed. He wasn't the sun of God and he didn't raise people from the dead. I am confident however that, like Muhammad, Jesus was a real man that walked the Earth 2,000 years ago.

This is why I hate religious fundamentalism and the indoctrination of children mentality that it incorporates. The middle east needs more atheists.

This might shed some light... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EilZ4VY5Vs If my understanding of physics is correct then space is indeed something though not exactly what you normally think of as "something". You have to abandon all Newtonian preconceptions and way of thinking when dealing with quantum mechanics.

C# is an extremely powerful, all-purpose language. I would definitely learn it first. You can do anything with it.

According to modern string theory there are 11 dimensions.

Sperm cells are alive. So technically life begins before conception. If you are talking about when "human" life begins, then I would have to say at the moment of conception.

That's something I'd be interested to ask a biologist. From what I understand, sometimes a mutations original benefiet was different and more simple that it's use now. I find it kind of far fetched for such a complex system to have randomly evolved in one mutation. I could be wrong though. I would presume that the original mutation was much more simple served a slightly different purpose than it does today. Over time it would have grown in complexity and taken on new functions and abilities.

Yes, but over thousands if not millions of years. Based on my understanding of evolution it isn't possible for a brand new, fully fuctional system to simply mutate within one generation. It takes thousands of generations for such things to evolve. I appreciate your thinking though. If it is possible, it would be a reasonable theory to explain it without yin and yang qi.

I quoted the wiki to show that it's not a reasonable explanation. It's a complicated system specially in electric eels. There's no way a human was randomly born with such a mutation. That's the way it seemed to me at least. I'm not an expert on anatomy and electric eels. Correct me if I'm missing something. He said "Greg is the first guinea pig. But he's uncomfortable about showing anything at all. A plausible explanation of the shock at 0:50 is that the table/ bed in the background is the other connection and you could obviously hide electrical gear in that - it's not examined in detail so schanning Chang with a metal detector is a red herring there. I didn't quite understand what you meant there. Were you saying that the shock could have come from the bed/table that Roger was touching? If so I don't really see this as a practical explanation. The guy would have felt the shock coming from the table. You can also see by the way he jolted his arm that it came from where he was touching (the guy's belly). If not could you expound a little? And again, a simple power supply and switch hidden in a shoe could drive the LED- you don't need a lot of current to get a visible glow- less than a milliamp will do it. The only problem with this is that Chang wasn't wearing shoes and was checked with a metal detector.

The electric eel has three abdominal pairs of organs that produce electricity: the main organ, the Hunter's organ, and the Sach's organ. These organs make up four-fifths of its body, and are what give the electric eel the ability to generate two types of electric organ discharges: low voltage and high voltage. These organs are made of electrocytes, lined up so a current of ions can flow through them and stacked so each one adds to a potential difference. When the eel locates its prey, the brain sends a signal through the nervous system to the electrocytes. This opens the ion channels, allowing sodium to flow through, reversing the polarity momentarily. By causing a sudden difference in electric potential, it generates an electric current in a manner similar to a battery, in which stacked plates each produce an electrical potential difference. In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 600 volts and 1 ampere of current (600 watts). It would be extremely unlikely for such a shock to be deadly for an adult human, due to the very short duration of an eel's discharge (<2 ms). Electrocution is due to current flow; the level of current would be fatal in humans depending on the path the current takes through the human body, and the duration of current flow. Heart fibrillation (which is reversible via a heart defibrillator) can take place from electrical currents ranging from 70 to 700 mA and higher, provided the current flows for more than about 30 ms. -Wiki Stun Gun Explanation This could possibly be a decent rebuttal but when viewing the footage closer and observing the demonstrations I personally don't see how it would be possible. Dr. Nelson was shocked while touching his belly (both Chang's hands were completely away). Also take into consideration that he isn't always "shocking" people. Several times he demonstrated a constant current which showed through continuous involuntary muscle contractions. Also... A stun gun is a popular electric shock device used to immobilize an attacker without causing serious or permanent injury. They can be used as a deterrent to temporarily disable an attacker and provide you with a window of opportunity to escape to safety. Using a stun gun requires you to be within arms length of the attacker. You must touch the person with the stun gun to shock them. http://www.womenonguard.com/-strse-template/stun-dsh-gun-dsh-info/Page.bok Taking that into consideration I do not see how he could practically have used a stun gun to perform the demonstrations. Watch the video below (short version) and see if it looks like he is using a stun gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY5UhN4iyEM (0:40) (0:50) (1:50) - I do not see how he could have pulled off those feats with a stun gun.

It's not dreaming. It's directly experiencing something while completely alert and awake. And how would you propose that he generate the electricity to start with?