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Taken from here. Thoughts?

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/why_are_all_the_birds_dying.php There's a good blog post on what is going on.

Link is borked.

“Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.”– Robert Park

No, it means the freedom does not apply. Freedom of speech is a protection from the government and SFN is not government run. You may as well complain about not being free to swim with the fishes because you're on an airplane. Websites are the property of their owners. This isn't a government website; It's blike's toy and he can do with it what he wants. You don't have the right to post here. Blike just lets you share his toy. Because the internet is not the government.

I saw a History Channel documentary about pre-Columbian settlers of North America and they suggested that it could be where the Templars hid their treasure.

That's actually about average.

This is not a Public Forum. It is a privately owned discussion forum. Blike could decree that all posts must be in Haiku if he wanted to. Indeed. Well, can also get rights by taking them at the tip of a sword.

Ok, now we've replied to a post. Congratulations! That's a good step forward. What do we do now? Well, let's make our own thread topic! Not so fast; let's go up and use the search function to see if our topic has already come up. Now that we've done a search and not found a recent thread just like the one we want to make, we are going to make our first thread! We need to figure out first where to post the thread. By clicking on the logo for the site, you will be taken to the list of forums. Let's look at that list and figure out which forum is most relevant to our topic. Click on that forum link. Now click the "Start New Topic" button. The Etiquette Guidelines have some things to keep in mind. Now that we've made a thread, we wait for replies and then reply to them creating a conversation. Good Job.

Welcome to SFN! In order to help people who are unfamiliar with internet forums, I have put together a small tutorial to expedite the development of the posting abilities of the forum as a whole especially the new members. SFN is a great place to talk about various subjects with an amazing community. We have a forum for just about anything related to science and we even have a forum to talk about non-science related things. Most of the forums are open to all users. However, some forums do have restrictions in order to minimize issues inherent in boards with such forums. Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion are all restricted to posters with a minimum of 30 posts and a membership time of a month. Now, before you go start posting, I ask that you read our rules that you agreed to follow by signing up for the forum. While the rules are mandatory, we also have a STRONGLY encouraged set of etiquette guidelines. If you have any issues or any questions about any of the rules or guidelines you can always contact a moderator or administrator. Now that you've read the rules and the etiquette guidelines, you've probably already found a thread to which you wish to reply. Don't get ahead of yourself just yet-we have some features to help you be understood by the other posters. The forum uses a system called BBCode which is similar to Hypertext Markup Language (or HTML). It uses what we call "tags" to modify the text of a post. To modify the text, you must have the text you desire to be modified between the "open tag" and the "close tag". The difference between open tags and close tags visually is that the close tags start with a /, like this: [tag]Text inside the tags[/tag]. There are various tags that are used, such as the [/noparse] tags used to make text bolded, the tags which italicize text, the tags which underline text, the [noparse] tags which I used to that you can see the other tags, and the tags which place text in a quote box so that readers can more easily distinguish quotes from the main text of a post: The quote tags are a bit more complicated than most of the other tags in that they have more than one part. renders as: You can see that the second part of the quote tags is what designates which user is being quoted. Notice that you only put the second part of the quote tag in the opening tag -- there's no need to end your quote with [/quote name=billy] when you already opened it with the name. Be sure to put the person's name in quotes. If you use the quote button in the bottom right-hand corner of a post, the name and date are inserted for you. We also have a mulitquote feature. If you click the MultiQuote button on the bottom right-hand corner of several posts and then click the Add Reply button, the forum software will automatically quote those posts for you when you compose your reply. One more useful tag is the link tag. This renders as This. We also have a handy list system: There are two types of lists that the forum uses. We have bulleted lists. point one point two renders as point one point two We also have the numbered list. point one point two renders as point one point two The tags I just went over as well as a few others are made into tools that you can use in both the Fast Reply and the Advanced Reply modes should you not wish to type out the tags manually. If you need to play around with formatting to learn how it works, feel free to post in the Sandbox. We also have math tags to display complex mathematical equations, but there is already a tutorial for that. These tags, while not all exclusive of the post features SFN has, are the most common ones and should help you be better understood. Better understanding means better communication. Have fun. I hope to see you post soon.

I had a similar thing happen to me when I was in the Navy, but it wasn't to the same extent. I was put on the watchbill with an under instruct watch. I was supposed to teach him how to stand the watch. However, I had never stood the watch before-not even as an under instruct.

The forum uses a system called BBCode which is similar to Hypertext Markup Language(or html). It uses what we call "tags" to modify the text of a post. To modify the text, you must have the text you desire to be modified between the "open tag" and the "close tag". The difference between open tags and close tags visually is that the close tags start with a /. You can see the difference when I show you a few of the more common tags in the next sentence. There are various tags that are used such as the tags used to make text bolded, the tags which italicize text, the tags which underline text, the [noparse][/noparse] tags which I used to that you can see the other tags, and the tags which place text in a so that readers can more easily distinguish quotes from the main text of a post. The quote tags are a bit more complicated than most of the other tags in that they have more than one part. renders as: You can see that the second part of the quote tags is what designates which user is being quoted. If you use the quote button in the bottom righthand corner of a post, the name is inserted for you. Notice that you only put the second part of the quote tag in the open tag; it is implied in the quote tag, so you don't put it there. The second portion of the tag is rather simple it is merely name="quoted person". Be sure to put the person's name in quotes. We also have a mulitquote feature. If you click the multiquote button on the bottom righthand corner of multiple posts and then click the add reply button, then the forum software will insert the text of each post you wanted quoted into the proper quote tags. One last useful tag is the link tag. This renders as This. As with the second portion of the quote tag, remember to put the website address in quotes. The tags I just went over as well as a few others are made into tools that you can use in both the Fast Reply and the Advanced Reply modes should you not with to type out the tags manually. We also have math tags, but there is already a tutorial for that. If you want to learn more about it, use the site's search function to search for "LaTeX tutorial".

I actually don't get that impression from the video. I just watched it again, and his facial expression and demeanor seem to indicate that he was just put off by the absurdity of the objection. And he was right; it doesn't matter if he can explain it. Given the short time alloted, it was probably a smart move not to take time to try to teach an idiot like Bill about gravity even if he did know. And, as I've said before, you don't need to know physics to be able to argue whether or not religions are scams. For example, we can suddenly buy our way into heaven again according to the Catholic church. The tides are irrelevant to arguing that indulgences and their sudden reappearance are a sign of a scam.

It actually IS an effectively random bit of science. Sure it's something we all learn in school, but no one remembers everything. History as taught in school was dreadfully boring to me. Do I remember the date of George Washington's death? No. Does that make me a, or lack of a better phrase, bad atheist? Of course not. Maybe earth science bored this guy to death. Contrary to your feelings above, you don't actually need a detailed math or physics background to do battle with Christianity. Maybe this guy is a huge history and theology buff. You don't know. All you know is that he got flustered by an idiotic sidewinder of random physics. You don't even know if he doesn't actually know the answer; the segment of the 'debate' wasn't long enough to tell if he knew it but was just in shock from the sheer randomness and the idiocy of this example of God of the Gaps.

That made me chuckle a bit. The second bit seems to imply a modified version of the negation of the first. You appear to be implying that a person's atheism is unjustified based on lack of knowledge in a random bit of physics. Assuming you hold similar feelings to all people(otherwise you'd need to explain the special pleading to hold this man to a different standard), we can say that you seem to imply that atheism as a whole is unjustified if there is an unknown bit in modern science. In other words, "You haven't found a complete theory of everything? The answer is Goddidit."

Wasn't it a gay communazi YEC crazy republican? Right. 'Law' is typically reserved for specific mathematical statements. As you said, gravity is a Law....sort of: [math]F=G\frac{mM}{r^2}[/math] is a Law; the fact of gravity is not a law. Laws are usually a subset of a theory. Indeed, theories do not become laws; theory is as good as it gets in science.

No.

I wasn't talking to you, but I think there might actually be some sort of thing. edit: we had one at some point, but it seems to not exist any longer

Dude, learn to use the quote feature.

http://urbanphilosophy.net/philosophy/the-argument-from-horrific-suffering-for-the-non-existence-of-god/

If you're going to quote me, quote me properly. I did no such thing.

I didn't say it did.

A god that is omnibenevolant doesn't have to be omnibenevolant? Really? REALLY?

Your statement is false. We can indeed say that the classes of gods with certain attributes do in fact not exist. The modern version of the western capital G God is one such god.