Moontanman

I would wish that more theists really knew what their holy books really say. Since I have indeed studied religion, especially the christian one, read the Holy Bible several times and from what I've seen so far you haven't a clue about religion or science... I smell troll..

I am on the fence about this, killing an innocent man by accident even if he was convicted is a nightmare, but life long imprisonment is cruel and unusual in my book. Being locked up with real criminals is high on my list of things not to do, I would fear that worse than simply being killed. The expense of simply keeping someone alive who can never be released into society is a bit of a problem as well. Primitive humans, I have been told, simply exiled a bad person from the group, but for humans that was as good as a death sentence. with out companions living in the wild before humans had beat down most of the really large predators was as good as a death penalty. I can't bring my self to categorically say one way or another, it would have to be on a case by case basis for sure. ultimately let the family members have some say in it... maybe...

It depends for me, if someone is going to attack me and I know, then a knife is preferable to a gun, but if I don't know he is coming death by knife is painful and often just slow enough to make you really suffer, that is why it's usually considered personal or sadistic to kill with a knife. As you might guess I have been a carrying member of knife nuts my whole life. A cub scout knife when i was 8, dangerous thing, it had no built in safety at all cut my fingers many times... When i hunted a carried a bowie knife my grandfather gave it to me, a case xx, I used it to clean and cut up game. I now have a folding lock back Buck Knife with a 5.5 inch blade... I have never really thought about using it as a weapon but if held in my fist it is heavy enough to make a punch really hurt... To me a knife is a tool, I feel naked without it, about like my hat, I just don't feel dressed without it.. I also carry a multitool in my car, a snatch rope, a empty gas can, jumper cables, and fix a flat... I was also a scout...

Chemistry is very deterministic, how do you justify asserting it is chance?

This is true and a knife makes the deaths much more personal and messy. It takes a particular form of crazy to do something that malevolent... I still a determined man with a simple pocket knife could do far more damage in a crowded place like a mall than most would think to me a knife is more of a terror weapon than a gun, in unarmed crowded space it would a mad house of carnage...

I've never had a bug collection but I catch some of them regularly for fish food. Your best route is to start out with "bugs" that cannot harm you. I have to admit that I always wanted to collect dragonflies but their almost intelligent behavior and actions keeps me from doing it.

There is both geological, fossil, and genetic evidence that shows conclusively there was never a first human. If you could indeed line up a picture of ever one of your ancestors over many thousands of generation there would be no point where you could point to a first human, everything gives birth to what species it is. At no point is there a line that can drawn, no dogs giving birth to kittens, no crocoducks, just a slow gradual change that is still going with each generation of living things...

Chemistry is how. Again you are insinuating that a power of some kind has to be responsible for a cell? Life at it's most basic is just chemistry, everything else is simply emergent properties of evolution by natural selection. No "power" is necessary any more than the creation of a snow flake requires a power, it's just physics and chemistry. If you want I can give you a link to a talk by Dr. Szostak an expert in abiogenesis, his talk and a couple others helped me to understand what is going on but at it's most basic life is chemistry and physics...

I could make an argument that if had been using a gun he would have been found and stopped due to the noise of gun fire. I won't because it is very possible there was no one there to stop him but the police would have called sooner and maybe some lives would have been saved. I've heard it often repeated that a determined man is more dangerous at close range with a knife than a man with a hand gun..

Yes the first cell developed within the universe. Life //...............................././. Life is an emergent property that develops out of complex chemical reactions fueled by available energy

No, you should have specified which religions mythos you wanted to compare. You did not specify the monotheistic abrahamic mythos... nor did you give any reason to any reason to think that particular mythos was any better than any other. On top of that the creationism story you want to justify is not concordant with the scientific evidence...

Thank you, I was beginning to wonder, I almost feel like I live in a protective bubble. I see so much crap across all information streams it's nice to be assured The world isn't going to hell in a hand basket...

I'll grant you that but is the apparent upswing part of a trend or an artifact of reporting?

The whole Ancient Aliens meme is for all practical purposes made up out of whole cloth for money and fame by unscrupulous people. It's a disgusting example of feeding a popular mythology in modern media by lying to people!

15 people killed and 45 others wounded by a knife wielding man in a care facility for disabled people in Japan. In country with rather tough gun laws does this mean that ultimately crazies cannot be controlled by gun control? http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/26/national/crime-legal/man-arrested-fatally-stabbing-15-people-wounding-45-kanagawa-facility-disabled-nhk/#.V5amQfkrKM8 I am looking for the good guy with a gun argument to rear up even taller than it already has. Does this act have any relevancy to the gun control argument? Are these acts increasing with frequency or is the current upswing an artifact of reporting?

They do have that here, that is for sure..

There is a you tube video that explains in no uncertain terms that the ancient aliens idea is simply lies and misdirection by the main people who promote this nonsense. It's around 3 hours long but well worth the trouble to watch if you think that Ancient Aliens explains anything at all...

You do have a point, but I doubt that hiring an off duty police officer to guard my house is a reasonable plan...

You may have a point but they are not supposed to do that are they? Still criminals generally try to commit crimes in a place where the police are currently not at... The police cannot be everywhere even in a police state... At some point you have to take your own actions to prevent harm to yourself and loved ones... I still wouldn't carry a gun in public, down that road lies insanity, but in my house...

They would have to be able to foretell the future to be there in time to prevent the crime...

It's impossible for them to be at the scene of the crime before it happens. They cannot know until they are called... This is what the police have told me, friends of mine who were law enforcement..

The police investigate crimes after the fact...

Gun control is an issue but so is personal safety. Does anyone here really think the police are going to protect you?

Seriously dude, are just being obtuse or do you not understand the burden of proof? I do not have to prove adam and eve never existed anymore than I have to prove there is no bigfoot or loch ness monster. If you want to posit adam and eve you must provide evidence, the bible is not evidence of anything, it is the claim that requires evidence...