Moontanman

Electromagnetism is information? citation please... Materialism has been discarded? Citation please. Again, you offer nothing but an assertion, please give a source...

No plan or program exists independent of what we name it, nothing but chemicals that replicate with variation filtered by natural selection. The complexity is built out of the competition for resources via natural selection. We name it a code for our own benefit but it is not a code independent of our label. I am going to go against the grain here and give you a short video that explains this concept much better than i can. Citation please. My sources do not say that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

New evidence may push back the appearance of modern humans to 500,000 years. Early human migration out of Africa and interbreeding with more archaic humans is thought to have occured. https://www.livescience.com/61532-oldest-human-fossils-outside-africa.html?

has anyone considered how existing computer programs that mimic evolution design things like airplanes faster and better than piecemeal engineering? That is a little misleading dude, the ancestors we evolved from (that we shared with modern monkeys) if they existed today would be recognised as monkeys. In fact it can be asserted that we are still monkeys, you never grow out of your ancestry. We are descended from synapsids: thjis in fact is an example of what our ancestors looked like after our line separated from reptiles: The idea is that modern monkeys are not our ancestors anymore than my first cousin is my ancestor... Yes, we do stand on the shoulders of giants, that is very important...

So you are suggesting that creationism or creation is akin to science as a matter of opinion? Simply not true, evolution is true no matter where the the first replicators came from. If you meant your your posts to be neutral and scientific then you should establish that the validity of evidence has no basis in opinion....

What do you see at 09:17? Real dinosaurs!

I'm not willing to assert that, we have no idea what the bounds of technology are, maybe it's possible to manipulate the entire universe in some manner to manage it or even leave it for another... All I can be sure if is if we do not try we will fail...

Yes, quite a bit more than enough but we have to go off planet to get it... A Dyson swarm would be the ticket!

A new type of virus has been found that could have a profound influence on ecosystems. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-virus-ocean.html

Because there is no testable evidence for god, the default condition is a lack of belief until evidence is presented... How about a tea cup knocked off a table and falling to the floor jumping back up on the table and coming back together as it was before it broke? No real reason it can't happen, I'd accept that as a "for instance." So everything that happens is evidence of god... kind of a low bar isn't it? So you simply define god into existence? Unlikely events happen, not proof of anything but the fact that unlikely events happen...

Who says we stop at four? Four is all we have detected so far but to say we've stopped is quite an assertion..

Welcome to the jungle! I am older than you! but it really doesn't matter here!

I would say there is only two possibilities, we expand or go extinct... or maybe both..

Yeah, what he said...

If I don't know the sex of the animal I will usually cat it an "it" I get quite attached to my fish and generally the gender is irrelevant so it is the preferred pronoun unless I am talking to another breeder and the sex matters in the conversation. My oldest son had a female dog he called fred, and everyone else pretty much assumed the dog was male. The dog never cared and it seemed to be less than important. I call my dog weird names a person would punch me out if I called them one of the names but my dogs don't care as long as the tone of voice is right. Shithead loves me anyway.. .

We have no data about how the universe came into existence or if this is the way it has to be or even if other laws in other universes allow for life on some sort or not. The big bang could have spawned trillions of billions of fluffy pink bunnies, all we can honestly is that don't see that now...

No real reason, they just stood out to me!

Not in their world, the intolerant cannot be tolerated, tyranny by the majority is still tyranny...

A and E?

They are required by their faith to convert everyone is not a christian. They actually think that shoving that nonsense into all aspects of society is doing us non believers a favor... This an example of what magical thinking results in, the really dangerous ones call themselves dominionists. https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/08/18/dominionism-rising-a-theocratic-movement-hiding-in-plain-sight/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology And this https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/jerusalem-expert-slams-pence-treating-city-like-end-days-biblical-theme-park/

Why is the Starship Enterprise like Toilet Paper? Because they both circle Uranus wiping out Klingons...

Sadly they seem to think they have to do us all a favor and insert their bullshit into reality as though it is reality. If live your life for the promise of another one you tend to make bad decisions about the only life we know we have. In my home state of WV they are requiring schools to teach bible classes as though it is science. If you think Noah's flood really happened, that all animals in their present forms were created in 6 days by a sky fairy, and the Earth is 6,000 years old not to mention that god talks to you for real then you should be allowed around sharp objects... much less be in control of the government... I could go into much more detail about things you have to believe to be a "real" christian or at least pretend to believe so you fit in but I think everyone here is already tired of that bullshit...

He was born on February 29th, and he can see through walls with a window.

None of this bullshit is surprising once you realize just how corrupt, stupid, and dishonest the majority of legislators are. The majority claim to believe in Noah's flood, the system allows them to be legally bribed, and these two points are a recipe for disaster...