Keenidiot

I don't know that natural selection plays a large role in our evolution any longer. Instead it seems more on sexual selection at this point.

Yeah I should have posted it here, but I was in a rush and didn't want to try to quote from memory. That quote actually caused me to go out and buy a copy of his Meditations. While I'm disapointed that the quote didn't come from him, I'm not disappointed in the book.

That's not exactly proving nothing, is it?

Yeah, Carl Sagan, Neil Tyson, heartless bastards, both of 'em.

Um... proof? Homosexual marriages end in fewer divorces than heterosexual couples. Perhaps you should become gay? http://www.huffingto...e_n_977370.html In countries with high religiosity, the secular or members of minority religions are less happy than the majority religion. In countries where secularism is high, this is not the case. perhaps everyone should become secular? As for intelligence... theists are much less common (though present) among scientists.

I dunno. I'd probably stick to the "We brought you into this world because we loved each other ad wanted to start a family." bit my parents raised me on. Seems to not be something that needs to be different between religious and non religious families. As for the questions on death... That's a good question. I don't know for sure what happens, though there doesn't seem to be any special reason to believe in a afterlife aside from comfort. With my nieces, that question's never come up though it does I'd probably try to focus on the here and now being important, and afterwards being something worth caring about. As they got older I'd probably use the line attributed falsely to Marcus Aurelius concerning gods and afterlife.

except.... Atlantis was a made up concept of a bronze age war like people that ancient Athens took out according to Plato. Do you also believe Lemuria was a real place?

Ok, fine then. I take note of your theism, and don't care. I did note you're a theist, but your phrasing seems to suggest superiority both to common theists and athesits. However, now I see that you simply phrased it poorly. I'm sorry, apparently we haven't met on this board yet. Sorry, I tend to be flippant when I see a poster who's past history is known to me and know there's no real point in attempting serious discussion.

Well, as long as you've found a way to feel superiority to both sides, that's all that matters. Please define "cheese."

Ancient aliens has always struck me as terribly racist. It's rarely or never suggested that the Romans and Greeks had help, but any culture like the Egyptians or Sumerians ect. must have had assistance in order to learn domestication or building.

I wouldn't even go that far, personally. It looks like an infant, with molars. Not to uncommon today. Though the article does also point to head binding as a possible solution.

I respect him as an astronaut, sure. I don't really consider him telling me a third hand story that someone else relayed to him as Earth shattering however. Question, do you think the Romans had help, or just the little bronw people?

Explain to me why you persist in believing in a creator for no reason other than it being obvious you were brought up to believe in said creator. Each time a god has been implemented to explain something that has yet to be explained scientifically, with time science has provided an explanation.

You live in nature, survive to 30, 40 years of hard living and avoiding what ever's trying to kill you. Whether it's disease or predators or starvation. I'm quite happy to have a life expectancy of 70-80 years and the ability to go camping, thank you.

I am as agnostic about god as I am about tree fairies. No evidence for them to exist, and according to the people who believe in them they're invisible, intangible, and have powers to do what would happen anyway. There's no proof they exist or don't exist, however proving a negative is fairly difficult. Now, I'm an agnostic, but I'm also an atheist. I don't believe these things exist, and I see no reason t carry out my day to day life as if they do. So far the evidence on this thread hasn't convinced me.

Yeah... "if."

That's a bit left field. But yeah, it'll do so by way of clogging your arteries, leading to death. It contains chemicals that can increase your cholesterol, though it's severely reduced if you use a filter, it looks like. (Which I do, so kudos to me.) You might have a heart attack due to the caffeine, not the cholesterol. Even then... 20 cups won't do it. Well, maybe twenty cups of coffee the way I make it. I have to be careful about disposing undrunk coffee, can't dump it near any water ways or cemeteries.

Ah, that's where my crazy shipment went.

All you need to know: link

Pareidolia is a neat effect, no?

Pretty much the same reason why spinning a ball of dough spreads it out, I think.

Why, that sounds like a description given to the following generation by the preceding generation of any time period!

He seemed rather active in the Old Testament. The flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Exodus, and I'm sure you can think of other examples. Much like many other culture's age of myth actually...

Argh, the picture in the OP wasn't loading for me at all,now I'm in a different browser I see what you mean. I thought they were just referring to the Nazca lines themselves.

In the shape of animals and straight shallow lines?