-Demosthenes-

Human beings always form groups with common enemies, if there is no common enemy then the group breaks down. This explains why during war The U.S. tends to move towards the right politically, they come together. We have a system in the world with many Nations, and alliances, all poised against each other in a balance. If we were all united as a world, it would break down, because we would have no common enemy. Maybe this common enemy could be poverty or war, but these are more complicated concepts for ordinary citizens to concentrate their efforts on, they can better rally against another group of people than concepts like poverty of war. Anyway, I think that the only way that a government can work is with the general public being able to participate. People in large groups kind of keep each other in check. So the citizens can keep the government in check, because large groups of people are far fairer than individuals. I think that the free media is also a part of that, because they tell the people what is going on and what the government is doing (you know, usually).

"The Gift of Life" was a very scientifically correct film in my Health class.

Sorry I was thinking of Cold Fusion, which cannot be replicated. Here is some info: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761558960_4/Nuclear_Energy.html

What force could make it contract?

WHAT!? I think you answered my question. So, the faster you're moving in relation to the observer governs how fast/slow time goes for you?? How do you know who is the observer? What if there isn't one, or multiple observers? Am I on the wrong track?

How many threads will be like this? Maybe we can keep it all in one thread! What a great idea! If only people were smart enough... So your whichoneyour.

So, we would all be brainless masses of flesh controled by computers, Yaa. Oo, no privacy either, its not like we want privacy, we only put in the Bill of Rights, no big deal. Yep, all these masses of flesh that are completely controled by a copmuter will respect each other, hurrah. Who cares, we would all be robot slaves any way.

Everytime the frequency of any certain gene changes in a population that population evolves, reguardless of any observer. The idea that the human population will not change over a million years is flawed. There are still pressures exerted on the species and making it change, its just that these pressures aren't traditional and as symple any more. Maybe more sick people will live and reproduce, but if you don't think about it then it doesn't really matter, becuase this is our environment, and if they live and reproduce in our enviornment even though we are "sick" then they are in fact finely suited for your envionment, because they lived and reproduced.

Why do people endlessly compare every to Nazis? What's so cool about 'em?

This was never replicated, and not very well recorded. Cough...fake...cough.

I believe that there were some astronauts that brought their own cameras (vague memory from the history channel, any confirmation?) but I don't think that a Nations Space program has sent an independent photographer into space (no one else has sent people into space) and I doubt they would spend money on sending someone into spacewho doesn't work for them.

You are saying that how fast time goes depends on how fast you travel in relation to the Earth? To the sun? To what?

Halo 2, give me an energy sword and I will procede to make sushi out of everyone who comes into my path.

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9781 What is this?

I used to see tiny "ripples" through my vision right after I blinked if I paid attention to it. After a while I figured out it was my eye lashes moving across my field of vision right I would blinked

Certain sounds or sights trigger a vague connection between what is happening now and what has happened before that we forgot about. I find that Deja vu happened a lot more when I was younger, now that am older it happens far less often.

You can believe in what ever you want, you could believe in both, but of course you want to know: do they conflict. The basics of evolution don't conflict with many creationalist ideas, especially Old Earth Creationalists, but it really depends on what form of creationalism you subscribe to. There are many differnt religions and schools of thought. The three points that creationalists have problems with are: the age of the earth, and the change of non-life to life and species changing to other species, and the evolution of primates to man. The first really applies to the literal interpretation of the Bible, primarily the book of Genesis. If you add up all the ages of the prophets in the Bible back to Adam you don't get billions of years you get thousands, around six to ten thousand. Carbon dating primarily has found that the earth is around 4 and a half billion, whicyh is not really part of evolution, but science. The second is non-life to life. Creationalists believe that God created all life, and it didn't come from "goo" by random means. Creationalist traditionally hold life as very "special" especially man, so it is hard to except that it came about other ways than God. Some creationalists actually thing that evolution includes animals spontaneously changing to evolve. They don't quite understand that these changes are over time. And they have a problem with mutation, which is the way major change is made in evolution. They argue that all mutations are bad, when in fact not are mutations are bad, and can lead to major change in a species. This Brings us to the third point. The human being is seen as even more "special" than other life, so it seems against the general feeling of christianity, even blasphemous, that humans could come from primates. But these are all reconcilable through "Theistic Evolution". This is creationalism in that they believe in God, and evolutionalist as well, and the fact that the earth is billions of years old. They believe that God used evolution to create life on Earth, and when hominids where advanced enough he started giving them souls, and they became man, and "God's Children". I am still forming my personal version of these theories and how they can be reconciled with my religion. Evolution in its basics, the change of the genetics or frequency of alleles over time, is irrefutable, but there are fuzzy areas related to science. There are theories that the Earth could be made from other planets showing that the earth in its present condition could be only thousands of years old, but this only supplies the possiblity of a young earth, it does not prove anything. Much like God, it is entirly possible, and there is no proof, and in a scientific stand point it is far more likely that there isn't. It comes down to faith I think, I don't think that there are many people who believe in Creationalism purely from a scientific stand point.

Okay, then we should work on educating people.

Ah, so they are wasting their potential on the third and second world countries they are in, when they could be working for us.

Very true, just wanted to clear it up, and make myslef look smart

How can we get the greatest good out of them?

Well there is some sort of positive/negative feedback in most animals isn't there?