Realitycheck

I recently posted a well-developed spiral galaxy dated at 13.1 trillion LY away. At the end of "dark age after inflation?" And just found another dated at 13.2, but with much poorer pictures (for good reason, probably), in that same wiki.

Bigger brains, highly dexterous fingers, the latest is that sex with the obsolete (but still living) Neanderthals boosted our immune systems, among other things. We happened because nobody else happened and it was the only thing that could happen.

Its easy to see how the Industrial Revolution would cause heightened growth rates, yet hardly exponential (all just depends on how you scale your chart). I don't deny that we are at or around our plateau, as is evidenced in the slowed growth rate. It just goes to show how it is all related. Heightened food prices cause families to slow down baby production in excess of capacity, etc., like clockwork. I don't deny that people in some places are not aware. What is your solution. We already provide birth control to lots of underdeveloped, less-than-up-to-speed nations. You need to go knock on the Pope's door and get him off his high horse about birth control. Of course, he might contend that this might enable Islam to surge ahead. How do you propose to control Islam?

To: Brainteaserfan, I was talking to a Moslem one time who said that, which leads me to believe that a considerable amount of people believe that. To expound upon what I said, the original Kaballah incorporated numerology, which is very similar to what many people experience today with their simple everyday interaction with the world - miracles, God talking to them, and all. This I know just from conversing with people.

Many people think of God as not being "somewhere", but everwhere, as everything. Considering how the universe is thought of as space that is expanding, being pushed, with no matter in it, kind of supports that, in an eerie sort of way. And that concept, growing space, is actually the only reason why I COULD believe in a string theory.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110826134012.htm

Speak for yourself. I try not to hate much of anything. Everything happens for a reason. Understanding something can easily supercede hating it, doesn't have to include condoning it.

Not electromagnetic waves, but plain old waves, or vibrations, from objects in the water hittng the strip of nerves on the side of their bodies.

Could you please elaborate?

I would throw in the experiential phenomenon of "kabbalism", or belief that your life is guided by divine messages imparted to you through the people and environment around you as you move through time. This is a biggest support for people who rely on "miracles" throughout everyday life in order to communicate to God, if they only understood their ingrained tendency to habitually look for answers in order to find answers in agreement with their expectations. I understand how this might not be exactly representative of card-carrying familial Judaic kabbalism, where they probably believe(d) that they are the only ones entitled to correct answers. After all, kaballah was based on a foreign language, but I have taken kabbalistic as the same phenomenon in any language. I believe it just stems from peoples' need/desire to communicate with an omniscient deity on an everyday basis. This is one thing that can cause people to overemphasize their belief in guesses. I believe I've seen some peer-reviewed literature here and there supporting this phenomena.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110819080957.htm

Where are you getting this from, as if any of it even happened anyway, not even explicitly describing what species is being referred to. I thought the tree served another purpose, to make people think and raise themselves above the animalistic sexual free-for-all of the animal world. You might want to read The Power of Myth. But I can see how you are probably joking/being sarcastic. Campbell asserts that all of the different experiential plants are included as the tree, though there was only one which made me analytical, not like I went around and tried a whole bunch of them.

I just wanted to point out that you've got it kind of backward. Belief in God in the U.S. is around 60-75%, depending on how you classify agnosticism, courtesy of Pew Forum. Throughout the world, however, it's about 97%, courtesy of CIA.

Hate is not necessarily evil, but is quite opposite.

My perspective was that Judaism was about fruitful multiplication of the species, in a sodom-focused culture/environment, though that is not representative of the whole world.

Big Bang was quark gluon plasma, only produced in the latest colliders at superhigh temperatures. When it cools, it assembles into hydrogen atoms.

The first nucleic acid was just real simple, handled real simple instructions, not a whole lot of diversity and detail, but it did it all. Who needs mRNA? But somewhere along the way, it mutates, and makes a copy which starts a basic function similar to mRNA, and changes a little over and over, leaving all the competitors in the dust, till it has a really freaky mutation which causes Siamese twin DNA and the rest is history. A billion years is a long time to deal with lots of trial combinations every second over every square nanometer of the earth. Okay, so maybe not EVERY nanometer. On second thought, I really like my original DNA first idea better, but its all just speculative, so there you have it. The process that DNA cleaves itself in half to use RNA hinders me from believing in the RNA world. I still have no trouble believing in the develop of nucleic acids into a double helix before it gets entrapped in a lipid vesicle full of cytoplasmic material. Just has to be the right combination to unlock the door and cause replication. Have you heard about how if you have a soup of the four nucleotides, they can combine into all kinds of combinations real easily? (err, actually, now i remember that it was just a little computer simulation that someone devised, but it was really effective in baseless theory)

Pig feed lots, cattle feed lots, chicken and turkey farms, automated processes. Some"thing" will do it.

Lots of study leading to lots of examination leading to lots of claims leading to lots of cross-examinations and corrections, adjustments, and progressive conclusions times a million, all culminating in the latest version of weak, baseless "theory". Open your mind. Don't get me wrong. It's impossible to go back to the last scattering or before, but the big picture is pretty well established. I wouldn't be surprised if a few other scenarios occured before that, but there's no way of proving anything and all we can do is debate. The most likely one is the most popular.

I believe they may have served their function, raising man out of the bush, but I don't see it going extinct any time soon. It's tough to say what would have happened without it. So many of them pointless mysticism with little or no social value though. Plato didn't really agree with homosexuality either.

Cults of personality. People think of Buddha and Jesus as still alive. Aryanism was built off of genetic "superiority" from a simple mutation and Nietsche's "Superman" concept and world domination.

I agree.

Hurricanes aren't that bad, unless: 1) A tornado happens to develop 2) You live in a low-lying area or against the shore 3) You live in a rickety, unfortified house. Boarding up windows is kind of standard for big storms. While the risks are definitely there, they aren't that bad unless they're a monster. Been through a class 5, and it was kind of a novel experience, walking around in 100+ mph winds during a lull.

Phosphorus content in peat moss is around 1%. Phosphorus content in ash is 1 to 3%. Just two examples after a brief examination.