Cap'n Refsmmat

There is more to the article than just intermediate forms. Did you look at the rest? It's a very lengthy description. Also, why do you believe the sea cow to be fabricated? If you're interested I could run a search for other papers mentioning that sea cow so you could learn more about it. I have access to many scientific journals through my university. And some people would say there are. There are many more transitional fossils than just mentioned in the TalkOrigins article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

blood_pardon, have you looked at the page with 29 evidences for macroevolution that I linked you to?

What is stopping microevolution from ever-so-gradually changing a species to look completely different on a macro level? Small changes accumulate. Think about how big the Earth is. Think about how much area that was once dry land is now under water or inaccessible. Then think about how much of it we've actually dug holes in looking for fossils. It's a tiny proportion. We've barely looked at any of the Earth. Fossil formation is rare enough, and we just haven't looked hard enough yet.

This is staying closed. The discussion was going nowhere.

There are certainly plenty of places on Earth where we wouldn't notice strange metabolic activity. For example, we probably wouldn't notice strange things happening at the bottom of the ocean -- the vast majority of it is unexplored.

Rather than trying to explain everything in one post, let me point you to a very good resource that answers this: 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution

If I understand you correctly, that is indeed not possible in vBulletin. However, we should be transitioning soon to IPB, which does allow this.

Why do you set x = vtλ/(1+λ) rather than just x=vt?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111102538.htm We actually are evolving.

I am 18. I have been a member of this forum since I was 12. In those six years (yikes, it's six years now...) I have changed tremendously: at first, I acted like I knew everything, making 25 posts per day, commenting on everything I knew even the slightest bit about. But what I have learned in those six years has taught me much. I have learned the value of doing research, analyzing evidence, and coming to sound conclusions. I have learned just how little we do really know. And most of all, I've learned the importance of thinking over your ideas and communicating them clearly. You do seem to have a lot of ideas, many of them interesting. But you're just showing tidbits of them to us at a time, throwing one bit out and then another. If you could take the time to write things out, do some research, and explain your ideas, we could discuss them far more easily.

A day-to-day calendar? What exactly is that? I mean, I can say "the day starts when the sun comes up" and I'll have a pretty awesome day-to-day calendar, unless I happen to live in the Arctic circle.

We could adjust the length of days, but then noon would be in the middle of the night half the time. Days would no longer match up with the rotation of the earth.

Beats mindlessly plowing the field for hours on end. I mean, you can't argue that the average 4th-century peasant led a richer intellectual life than modern humans.

We are living in the most peaceful time in our existence.

I'd say that you'd better get it straight whether this is abnormal or not before you go jumping to grand conclusions about life.

I think the point is that what you can do isn't all that remarkable. It's part of being very nearsighted. Would you happen to know the strength of lenses you need for your eyes? As in, the number of diopters of correction or something. Just so we get an idea just how nearsighted you are.

Right, I'm referring to this: So if the objects do get blurry, that is indeed your nearsightedness naturally. I can do similar things but not to the same extent, as I'm not too terribly nearsighted. My dad, however, was once helping his college roommate determine the gender of fruit flies under the microscope, and he discovered he could do itr by just taking his glasses off and looking at them very hard. Without a microscope. Now that is nearsighted.

When you view objects as very large, are they blurry or perfectly clear? As for water bottles... they act as natural lenses due to their shapes. It's perfectly possible to make a magnifying lens with some clear plastic sheet and some water, for example.

Who caused God? Same question. However, let's please not get into a religious discussion here. They never end well.

I intend to look through all the gazillions of new forums proposed and decide which ones to make. So yes, sometime soon.

The most disastrous results I've seen involved the test tube shattering. Our chemistry teacher did the demo with potassium chlorate and marshmallows, and the students secretly compacted three or four marshmallows into a small ball for her to use in the reaction. It was violent enough to smash the test tube. Pretty impressive, I'd say. You should be able to check the chemical bottle for information on potential impurities. Most bottles I've seen (from places like Flinn Scientific) give a detailed composition of the contents of the bottle and state what any impurities might be.

Bruce Schneier can.

Yeah, the idea is to prevent people from repping each other back and forth until they have huge amounts of rep. I think you only need to rep two other people before going back to the same person though.

Here you go: Is this the symptom or the cause??? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI took part of this from another post I wrote but fits well here in explaining my thoughts and experience in this subject. I don't think medicine is bad but just our misuse of them which is really just an example of the condition of the human heart and greed. I believe humans don't have the freewill they think they do.I believe like all other animals instincts we make choices out of fear and faith. When a dear feels safe and full of faith it can think along the lines of finding green grass to eat and shade to lay in and such. Once it senses danger its line of thinking will change. It will seek out the danger, decide what direction to dart of etc.. Too much fear and maybe freeze. Humans are the same way. the biggest mistake humans make is they try to use their thinking to control their emotions. We don't realize that in order to be happy, feel safe and full of faith all we have to do is release the fear or emotions.As we release the emotions our line of thinking actually changes like the deer in the field.People hold on so tight to emotions and refuse to release them and it causes the brain to be stuck in a certain mode of thinking.My personal belief is that eventually when you hold on to bad emotions long enough without releasing them they cause the mind to be stuck in a certain unhealthy pattern of thinking that eventually alters the chemicals causing chemical imbalances(mental illness) Even good emotions can cloud up the mind and clarity of thought.Releasing good emotions also has a great benefit to clearing the mind and so you can make better choices and keep bringing yourself up to a better state of thinking and feeling.The only way to feel good is to allow your self to feel and release the bad feelings no matter how bad they feel and don't allow them to dictate your thoughts or choices.(sometimes you just have to buckle the seatbelt and hang on) So I guess what i am saying is that are emotional state of fear and faith we are in actually dictates our line of thinking and how we make choices just like the deer. So in order to summarize this I believe we are still dictated by faith and fear instincts that actually alter our thought processes depending upon which state we are in.If you want to think more clear and positive and make better choices, all you do is release the negative emotions and you climb to a positive state(state you were born and meant to be in ) automatically and your thinking changes automatically.(just like the deer). I think psychiatry fails because they think that if you alter the mind then you can alter the feelings(fight and flight response). In reality all you have to do is release the bad feelings(fears and hurts etc...) and then the mind changes automatically and thinks more healthy. Instead what we have in society is commercials pushing drugs trying to turn every bad feeling of the blues they can into a mental disease of some sort of depression out of greed for the all mighty dollar.They are a cancer to society IMHO.The drugs do alter the mind and make people feel better but people actually are not getting better but just feeling better temporarily until they either need to try a new medicine or increase dossages etc.. Meanwhile the bad emotions (cause of problem)that are not released(fight and flight response) are not being dealt with but just on hold and actually making it difficult to recognize because of the effects of the medicine.People just want to feel good and not deal with how they really feel and pharmaceutical companies take advantage. Now I think there is a time and place for medicine.When it becomes an issue of life or death then I think using medicines to help someone think more rational would definitely be called for and serve a purpose if it can save a life. This is a far cry from commercials asking if you have the blues and saying you may be suffering from depression and advertise a medicine for the sake of a dollar. the damage that this is doing to society is unreal!!!People with mild blues feelings can suddenly believe they have depression and get on medicine and from there completely go down hill. Food and drug administration love the profits!!!

No, walkntune accidentally double-posted and then erased it. walkntune, I can get back the post if you'd like me to.