Moontanman

It's almost impossible to keep gases contained in reasonably cost effective packaging. Oxygen and other gases can and doe migrate across barriers quite easily. Once I can across many cans of coke while cleaning out lockers where i worked, all of them were completely flat, the CO2 had escaped from sealed cans. It didn't take more than a couple years at most, think of how quick gases could escape from plastic wrap...

I would suggest you look at the so called prophecies with a little more skepticism. A great many Prophecies never came true, if I were to sit down and write out a large number of things I think might come true in the next ten years i would almost certainly be correct about a few of them just by chance... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_prophecies

Are you asking about chemical evolution? http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/lattimer/AST248/lecture_13.pdf

Thunderf00t says the EM drive will not work!

It's been 50 years but I used to build and fly rockets, I helped my sons build kits by estes that you can find in hobby shops. Is this what you are talking about? I watched the video! Very cool! Much easier than the way we built them when I was a kid!

Containment of antimatter is a problem but Hoyle, in a very old science fiction novel solved that problem by using antimatter iron, he just kept the " anti iron bars" clamped down with magnets in the vacuum of space. Of course finding or getting antimatter iron is a whole new can of worms...

No, you didn't answer anything, you simply made bald assertions..

Yes! God ignores everyone equally.. You ignored most of my questions and you didn't show your work..

My fav! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVT65M4mRnM

If artificial upwellings could be made in ocean areas that are other wise nutrient poor would this cause algae blooms to absorb more CO2? Could air pumped to the ocean bottom be used to create these upwellings much like air is used to circulate water in aquariums and even in lakes but on a much larger scale?

How do you tell the difference between false religions, false prophets, hypocritical churches, hypocritical church leaders, and how do you know which parts of a religion should be ignored and or followed? But most importantly, How do you know there are any gods at all? And how did you decide your god is real? Why is it no longer important to have the fringe on your garments a specific way? Who told you that killing gays was no longer a requirement? Can I boil a calf in it's mothers milk? Why do we no longer take the virgin girls of the enemy as sex slaves and kill everyone else? If I can't make my children behave is it ok to stone them to death at the cities gate? If a group of children make fun of my bald head is it cool for god to send she bears to kill them? If I plant more than one crop in the same row is it still an abomination? Why or why not? SHOW YOUR WORK!

I'm rather fond of Dave Chapelle, his Black White Supremacist skit makes me laugh until I cry everytime I see it. I love this one too...

I have no problem with the quotes, they would appear to be quite accurate, Non-Beliefism, cannot apply to everything, unless you are simply being pedantic. I think you are, as many do, using the word belief inappropriately. I would assert you are using the word belief disingenuously to obfuscate the issue. I am an atheist yet I believe in many things. Many things have a track record of reliability. At the very least many things have a level of confidence that allows you to accept them until better data comes in. Belief is also scaled according to the claim, if you told me you have a dog, I would assume you have a dog. If you told me you have a dog that flies I would not believe you until you showed me the dog flying... I believe I'll have another beer!

I think he may have a point, I look forward to his defense of his speculation. I think you need to go back quite a bit further than 20 years ago to see the effect. Our ancestors often had to be a jack of all trades, one individual had to at least gain moderate control over multiple skills. Now we often specialize to the point that someone with a specific talent may in fact be almost helpless in other areas of needed skills. I would like to see some data from as far back as possible.

I use big words to appear copacetic

So you are saying I look like a Dumass? LMAO!

I'm not real sure what your theory is, you do use the term unique and defining complex would help, Sperm whales have the largest and most complex brains we know of, elephants are also unique in both brain size, complexity not to mention behaviors. A mormyrid (an electrical blind fish) has a larger brain to body ratio than humans not to mention complex behaviors. Unique could also use some definition, both whales and elephants are known to have language and are able to share complex information. I would argue cephalopods are smarter than we are in significant ways. Corvids as you mention are capable of some amazing behaviors and communication interaction. They are able to communicate highly complex ideas between each other not to mention read human behavior better than we can all with a very small brain. I am questioning your neutrality on this idea, to be honest I'm not sure a human can be neutral when trying to judge or compare non human intelligence with human intelligence. We have a natural bias, human chauvinism is written into our own behaviors. So far you have not listed a single way humans are unique or superior to other animals... or at the very least listed a way we can know this...

Have you considered non primate animals? Even cephalopods would seem to visualise their surroundings and can learn from watching others or even watching humans. Elephants show signs of complex thoughts, one actually speaks korean and recently a large bull african elephant actually approached game wardens for help with a bullet wound. I'm not so sure the traits you mention are restricted to humans, in fact i would say the only trait restricted to humans is the use of fire. Animals of various sorts display all the other traits of humans to some degree and maybe even be more complex thoughts than humans. The singing of whales is quite complex and is thought to contain complex information possibly even three d pictures. Cephalopods definitely communicate with patterns and colors and show quite complex emotions via various color patterns and pulses. I am I off the rails here? If so tell me and I'll give it a rest.

I'm not sure you are correct in your assertion comparing the evolution of humans to an arms race. I see it as more of a large gene pool slowly changing over time. As better adapted forms evolve the less adapted forms fail to pass on their genes and the entire gene pool changes. We see snap shots of that change in the fossil record and name the snap shots but in reality it was a more of a river where the tributaries unite to form a larger river. The tributaries don't go to war with each they merge into one. Gene flow over time is a better description than war. No doubt various hominid species coexisted and competed for resources but to suggest active aggression between the species is not supported by any data i am aware of.

My post count is meaningless, you how ever need to back up your baseless assertions... Might I suggest you break up your post into several specific posts and provide citations for your assumptions?

I would like to ask why you think it is not. You name all these attributes with no evidence other than your own claims. I simply wanted to point out humans are not the only large brained social animals not even the largest brain to body ratio. By far not the largest brains or most complex nor the most complex behaviors. You need to provide some evidence and your post smells a little like a gish gallop...

This short video give you a starting point. If you want a more complex explanation I can give you a two hour long explanation by one of the leading scientist on the subject.

Humans are not the only self aware social animals....

You make these assertions but have no evidence they are true. All religions are equal in this regard, nothing but baseless assertions. As for free will who has free will? Do the people killed in a tsunami choose to die? Does the victim of a murder have free will? Jesus didn't die, he had a bad weekend then went to heaven, if he had stayed dead it might have meant something. You've made a lot of assertions here that need evidence, do you have any? Your holy book is the claim that needs evidence, it is not evidence... This a basic truth about religion: "Religion evaporates in the light of critical inquiry much like the morning dew in the light of the rising sun..."