Moontanman
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Canopy? Are you a follower of Ken Ham now? Rainbows are quite common, I can create a rainbow easily, we understand why a rainbow forms and that the effect is a result of a fundamental property of matter and light. No need for a god apologizing for a flood that cannot have happened... Mike, to continue this conversation with any hope of making sense you first must provide evidence for gods or goddesses or for anything supernatural. So far you have done nothing but spout nonsensical assertions like a religious creationist caught between a rock and a very hard place. Come back to reality Mike, the feelies are taking control of your mind...
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Are you suggesting there were no rainbows until a god destroyed the world and made rainbows to signify his promise? Really? A rainbow is part of the behavior of matter under specific circumstances, are you asserting an imaginary god created it to signify that it would not destroy the world by flood? A flood that can be proven never to have happened supposedly caused by a entity there is no evidence for to begin with?
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No. methodological naturalism means that if you were to give evidence for god it would have to be real, not someone claims in a book. Methodological naturalism can only study that which is real, or has a measurable effect on reality. We used to think that thunder and lightning was supernatural, didn't keep us from studying them and finding out how they work. If you cam up with 10 instances of divine intervention you would need more than simple claims. Yes methodological naturalism requires evidence no matter what is being studied. So far the supernatural/religion/god has yet to provide any evidence than can be shown to be a part of reality. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Methodological_naturalism Methodological naturalism makes no truth claim, it follows the evidence, you must have read Conservapedia's definition. In the future it would be wise to avoid sites with a religious ax to grind... http://www.conservapedia.com/Methodological_naturalism This is quite simply dishonest, a knowing lie used by religious conservatives to deceive people looking for answers... To be honest, you bitch about neg rep when I am surprised you haven't been buried in it due to people thinking you are dishonestly arguing your point. Having read your stuff on here for quite some I have given you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you simply didn't know how dishonest most of your arguments were. The more you complain about neg rep the more likely you are to receive it. What you believe is personal and as long as it harms no one else feel free to believe it but if you are going to assert your belief as reality then you have a burden of proof and what an old book says is not proof...
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I am from WV, I grew up in hillbilly heaven.... But to be honest I never thought of the civil war as something other than history, the past, something difficult to understand. WV seems to be caught up in this "worship" of the good old days except nowadays they've switched sides. Technically WV was part of the North, WV citizens fought for the north. It always seemed like some sort tall tail, then when I moved south there seemed to be statues every place. I felt it quite odd the see statues of men who were really traitors, I got over it, but it did seem odd...
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Does anyone have any knowledge about fluorescent light ballasts? I just got a replacement ballast and it has two wire too many!
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Try looking into LED replacements for the T12 fixture, they are available online. LED's will give you more eye pleasing color rendering (look for 80 CRI or 4000K color temperature) and you will quickly get return on your investment as they consume a fraction of the energy of the traditional fluorescent or incandescent fixtures (easly 100+ lumens per 1 watt with the new LED emitters)
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I have 750 LEDs of various colors on the aquarium for plant growth but the light makes the fish and plants look funky. The Fluorescent is just to make the light look more natural. Plants require light that is not particularly pleasing to the eye, mostly red and blue, so the LEDs are mostly red and blue. With marine tanks it become even more important to have very blue shifted light, shallow water plants and corals still use red light but below 33 feet there are no red wavelengths. If you cut your self diving lower than 33 or more feel your blood looks fluorescent green.
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List some effects of god that are not explained by methodological naturalism... You sling around the word "if" as though it was evidence. If a frog had wings he wouldn't bust his little slimy ass every time he jumps..
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How much energy is radiated from the sun in the form of neutrinos? https://futurism.com/60-years-since-they-were-first-observed-theres-much-left-to-learn-about-neutrinos/
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Citation Please!
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It would appear I am correct, you do not understand what I am saying...
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Heavy Metal is reborn in this Canadian group!
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I think maybe this one is the best: It's interactive.
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That is a good tree of life but I think this one best represents hierarchies:
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Why should what some fairy tale claims have anything to do with reality Mike? The Bible is demonstrably wrong about everything it asserts about the natural world that can be confirmed one way or another. Why should anyone give any credence to what any ancient book of mythology says about anything? I will again say, show me evidence for a god, then we can talk about evidence for your god. What some (not so) ancient book says is meaningless unless it can be confirmed in some way. The Bible is not evidence of anything, the Bible is a book of claims that need supporting evidence...
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I am more than willing to entertain the idea of god, fairies (and all the other pagan things), angels, demons, the supernatural in general just as soon as someone offers some evidence a bit more substantial than "what else could it be" or feelies, or a hunch. Mike, be serious, I can make a much better case for aliens visiting the Earth than your "feeling of connection" Would you be willing to believe such an improbable thing as the Hollow Earth just because I said I had a feeling it was true? Your idea of god sounds quite a bit like the idea of ancient astronauts crossed with magic. I cannot in good faith even meet you .1% of the way on this Mike...
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ROFLMAO! Something about them sparkly roller skates, I can't keep my eyes off them!
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Fairy tales, myths, bullshit...
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I'm looking to build a working "but small" model of my pelagic fish aquarium design. If anyone knows of a source of salvage cast acrylic tubing, I am looking for three pieces 24 or more inches long and at least 24" in diameter. 1/4 inch would be preferred but I can probably use as thin as 1/8. Thicker is not a problem, scratched, foggy, can be polished out with a little elbow grease and power tools both of which i have. Give me a heads up if you know of some, I have been looking locally and I can't find any so far. New the stuff is just astronomical in cost, at least to me.
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I once had a Saeng motorcycle windshield made of polycarbonate, great stuff but generally too easily scratched for aquarium use. Lexan will break, I hit a car broadside and the windshield shattered like thousands of tiny plastic sparkles, still remember it clearly to this day watching the windshield turn inside out and exploding... Acrylic is commonly used in aquariums now days due to it's light weight and resistance to breaking compared to glass.
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You would appear to be on the correct track with faraday cages but a lot of modern electronics, especially military electronics is already protected due to their need to survive the EMP of a nuclear blast...
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So why do reptiles tend to be larger in small isolated habitats ie Islands, and mammals tend to get smaller in similar habitats? I will repost this since it seems to have been misinterpreted: From what I've read of this thread so far there seems to be an idea that the size of dinosaurs was due to high oxygen and that my post supported this. Not at all, in fact it was low oxygen environments that provided the stressor dinosaurs needed to evolve their superior circulatory/breathing systems. One reason such large birds as geese can fly at very high altitudes. The lower oxygen levels impacted the proto mammals more than the proto dinosaurs possibly because their circulatory systems had already started down the road to that breathing system due to the way reptiles breath as opposed to mammals. Well except for turtles, many of them breath through their anus...
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This type of event? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
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Mike, seriously dude, you are starting to embarrass yourself, I've read a great many posts by you and you never seemed to be that far out of the ball park. What original documents do you have, do we have? None, absolutely none, not a single document that is anything more than the ramblings of men about their favorite gods and not a single one of those texts is an original much less evidence of any kind. They carry no more weight than "The Lord Of The Rings" in fact Lord of the Rings was at least written recently and we have original copies. Oh, and it's a far better story as well... Again, you have a data point of one, nothing can be supported by a data point of one except that data point... We have plenty of evidence that life is naturally occurring phenomena and evolution by natural selection fully explains the diversity of life. If you want speculation along those lines I would suggest John Varley's quite good series "Titan", "Wizard", and "Demon" very entertaining and quite on the point with what you are suggesting.. It's called Abiogenesis, it's a mesmerizing subject, one that I greedily read everything I can get my hands on. The structure of life is, again, explained by evolution via natural selection. I honestly do not know how to state these things more clearly. If you require links to that information I know you have access to the same search engines I do. However I do have a serious of very good videos both by prominent scientists (very long and dry for the most part) and lesser known individuals (very entertaining and accurate as well) who explain these things both verbally and graphically. Your choice to believe what you want but reality cares not about what you believe... Let me know and I'll start you down a trail you might spend a very long time on, these videos are fascinating..
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You can believe the sky is yellow, your belief will not change it's color. So far your best evidence is "what else could do it" Or "there has to be? " We could indeed be the only spark of not just intelligent life but of life in general in the entire cosmos! Kinda of a bummer but not wanting it to be true will not change the reality. We know for sure that nothing that has been discovered so far needs a higher being or beings, no need for them, no evidence of them, pretty much calls out for the null hypothesis don't you think? Your main mistake here is thinking about things from the top down, like a swarm of starlings appear to follow a leader but the truth is they do not, their behavior come from the bottom up. And how many planets of of the billions just in our own galaxy have we investigated? One! One data point does not a curve make my friend... "Nothing yet" What an enormously telling statement. If an alien suddenly popped into existence in death valley, as far as the eye can see nothing but hot dry barren waste land, he would be seeing orders of magnitude more of the Earth than we can see of the rest of just our little galaxy. Would he be correct in assuming the entire Earth was a hot dry barren wasteland? I mean if you really want to get picky there could a civilization of hydrogen breathers on Titan. Our lander just happened to land in their version of death valley, the rest of the planet is their idea of heaven and we just haven't seen their glittering towers of crystalline water. You ended with "in all our searchings" we haven't even touched the surface much less scratched it. There are more planets in the universe than all the grains of sand on the earth by several orders of magnitude and you want to declare "god did it"? Short sighted indeed!
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More than a blunder, it revels the basic problem with your hierarchy assertion. We can explain everything from Man "down" and have no evidence for anything above man. We can show a need for everything we see on Earth, "the ecosphere" but no need for anything outside that ecosphere. You need evidence and the watchmaker idea you proposed is easily debunked.