Moontanman

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...

Can you name one scientific fact that the study of the bible has uncovered? Can you name one thing about reality that science confirms in the bible?

Being objective is required by not assuming something that is not objective.. like a designer...

Not the same thing as an intelligent designer...

After 10 pages of discourse going nowhere suddenly a sense of humor is a bad thing?

I remember a book with that premise! Reality only existed when god wasn't watching, when he was looking only what what was in his direct frame of sight was real, he had to be put back to sleep...

It suffers from the same problem, it equates the emergence of life to something predetermined or intentional. The reality is simply energy gradients and complex chemistry. I would honestly expect life to arise where ever enough energy and chemistry of sufficient complexity occur.

I have wondered about the hypothesis of a black hole tearing a hole in our universe and creating another one. It does raise problems of infinite energy as well but it seems reasonable to me that a tear in space time might release far more energy than it took to create it...

Yeah.. what he said... I take offence at the comparison of gun ownership to rape, it wouldn't matter to a rapist how a woman is dressed or anything else. You have a point about the police taking a bum rap in some cases but in others the outrage is more than justified. I wonder if what we are seeing is just the result of more people having cameras or more police violence. It's really difficult for me as a reasonable man to be sure, I've seen some violent police officers and I've seen some take abuse I could never have put up with. I do think this is something we should all be very careful about jumping to conclusions, the populace here is quite well armed but you don't see any or at least not much violence. Even gangs seem subdued here for some reason, it's almost weird to read about what is happening elsewhere and wonder why not here... I can say that here when the police are called they show up fast and in large numbers, maybe that is a clue...

At some point it's ok to just say "I don't know" ...

What created the creator that created the creator that created the creator... ect... You are equating creation as some sort of power with intent. It's really not honest to even use the term creation, that implies a creator, the word reality is more to the point. There is no reason to assume a creator or to assume there is not one, so assuming either is an assertion that needs to be supported with evidence. All we have is reality, that reality can be traced back to a certain point, it's not even clear if it's proper to think of a time before T=0 There are some hypothesis about that possibility but none have supporting evidence and are mostly just speculation. The genesis of life is relatively well known compared to the start of the universe, the chemical reactions necessary to bring about abiogenesis have some pretty good theoretical footing. Assertions about creators or creation are just place holders for ignorance...

Chemistry gave rise to the first replicating chemicals, I'm not sure what you are asserting here...