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1)6,000yo universe. 2)human genetic bottleneck of 1 member 6,000 years ago. 2)global flood destroying all but 2(or 7) of each kind of animal and 8 humans 4,000 years ago. 3)genetic bottleneck of all animals to 2(or 7) members 4,000 years ago. 4)genetic bottleneck of humans to 8 members 4,000 years ago. 5)stopping of earth's rotation(sorry, but forgot the date for this one). 6)existence of a mountain from which one can see all of the nations of the earth that existed 2,000 years ago. 7)2,000+ year old Jews walking the earth today. 8)empty graves broken from the inside 2,000 years ago. That's off the top of my head. Ok, the last two aren't exactly falsifiable, but they are verifiable.

It doesn't really make sense; cyberspace isn't really a place where you can go.

If you have time, watch this video: That's not exactly correct. The Bohr model of the atom has been known to be false for a long long time. It's in fact impossible as the accelerating electrons would radiate photons thus losing energy and would then crash into the nucleus. The Bohr model is a nice toy for school kids, but it's not correct; electrons do not orbit. It most certainly could be. But there could also be a giant pink elephant right outside our light cone. The problem with both of these ideas is that they're unfalsifiable; there's no way to know if they're wrong. Science is in the business of falsification. We get an idea, design a test, and see if it works. If it doesn't, we discard or change the idea. If it does, we do more tests to see if it is wrong in other aspects. It works on a simple logical syllogism: p->q ~q ~p If p, then q. Not q, therefore not p. This is how we falsify ideas. We can't do it the otherway around, because it's a logical fallacy called affirming the consequent: p->q q p If p, then q. q therefore p. That doesn't hold, because q could be true for any of billions of reasons other than p.

That's why perjury is a crime.

THERE'S your problem! </Adam Savage voice> While they look really cool, i'm not sure there's any reason to think that they're alien spacecraft. In fact, the sheer size of them seem to indicate that they're not spacecraft.

How is that different than snail mail?

Giving access on one occasion does not transfer into future consent. She should have changed her password, yes, but without giving him consent on THAT occasion, he has no consent. It is a felony to read another person's snail mail, so it's not a giant leap to apply that law to e-mail.

The energy that you get from an object falling is stored in the object by raising it. You can't get more energy out of it falling than you got from raising it(unless you have it fall farther down than the height you raised it). Add in friction and other losses, and this contraption will not work.

Why not? That's a HUGE problem. Losses are why it won't work.....especially if you're going to try to extract energy from it.

That is an idiotic objection. You can obviously analyze a belief without actually holding such a belief. In fact: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."-Aristotle

There are numbers on the board, so you can do a simple math test. 1)Blindfold(and ear plug) the operators of the game so that the operators cannot subconsciously answer the question themselves. 2)Spin the board several times so that the operators do not know the orientation of the game. 3)Write down a mathematical problem that has a numerical answer. 4)Read the problem out loud as well as laying the written problem near the board so that it is given the information in more than one way to increase the chance of any spirits seeing the problem. 5)Let the spirits answer. Repeat with different math problems. You could also do other basic things such as geography. You don't want to get too complicated in case the spirits aren't very smart.

I see dead people.

They are children's toys. My argument is from that it is a blatant fact.

Well, the 'sun rising' is mainly from the rotation of the Earth although the elliptical orbit has an effect. If a large enough impact occurred at the correct angle, it could theoretically stop the rotation of the Earth. It would obviously be the largest impact in history and would have devastating consequences on life due to the dust cloud, heat of impact, seismic activity from the impact, and tidal waves. Then you have the aftermath; the water and core will still want to spin. That means the seismic activity and tidal waves mentioned above would be even worse. It will also affect the magnetic field making us vulnerable to radiation from space as well as solar flares. Now you still have to deal with the orbit. An impact large enough to stop our orbit would destroy the Earth. Even if the Earth were destroyed, the cessation of the orbit would cause the Earth to zoom into the Sun(an orbit is basically the Earth falling into the Sun but traveling sideways fast enough to continually miss it).

It is a crime to read another person's snail mail without consent. I can see the same idea being reasonably applied to e-mail.

What double standard?

The Israelis surely aren't the first government to shoot down an unidentified aircraft.

Because the firemam SET the fire and made the rescuee refuse help.

Anyone have news on this story?

Freeze water.

The censorship is perfectly fine. Amazon decided to pull the books, not the government. Arrest for writing fictional stories in attempt to make the world safer isn't. Let's break this down: 1)The guy lived in Colorado. 2)He was selling e-books through Amazon. 3)Amazon is based in Washington. 4)Florida undercover police contacted the guy to buy his personal hard copy for $50. 5)The guy was arrested under an obscenity law in Polk County Florida. 6)The book arguably doesn't even fall under the definition of obscenity. Yeah, this sounds like a clear cut case of entrapment. If he has a decent lawyer at all, he should be able to get out of it and then sue the Polk County police. As I said before, I see justification for a search warrant, but none for arrest.

Good superior to perfect morally is nonsense. It is basically saying something is better than perfect. Even if that made any sense, doing such things would still mean that God is not morally perfect. Again, you talk about God choosing; is moral perfection at odds with free will or not?

According to the book description, it fails to meet the standards for obscenity by ©.