Moontanman

Rewilding is a very controversial idea, the american midwest has been suggested for elephants, rhinos and other african animals. I have been involved in conversations with some of the people who are going to be making these decisions, I doubt it's going to go over well, elephants roaming the midwest is not something Americans are going to sign off on, wolves and coyotes are controversial enough.

Mistakes in the bible http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scientific_errors_in_the_Bible http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html http://atheism.about.com/od/biblecontradictionserror/tp/Scientific-Historical-Errors-Mistakes-Bible.htm I could go on and on...

I'm not trying to be insulting but you have no idea what you are talking about... Bats and whales diversified at the about the same time primates did and they are placentals just like me and you, at one time there were several other lineages of mammals other than the placentals who were quite diverse and if you include synapsids you have to include animals like dimetrodon, they were quite a diverse group as well and there were other more or less mammals that were also diverse. If placentals had made it to australia we would see so few marsupials you would be saying the same thing about them... To some extent it is the luck of the draw, some animals are better at competing and others just had the bad luck to exist when a mass extinction hit. I see no trends other than those that can survive do... Under other circumstances we might still have isolated populations of dimetrodon like animals... Think of turtles the only living representatives of anapsids and they predate dimetrodon and it's relatives by quite a margin...

Well sometimes they die, sometimes their attackers die, sometimes they go to jail, sometimes both of them go to jail sometimes they are so dominated they put up with it. If I was violated in any way reprisal would come, if not the police then... well.. bad things happen to people all the time...

Are you asserting that platypus and echidna are unchanged from their original form? this seems unlikely, there were at one time more varieties of these animals but now we have only there two, we used to have far more marsupials than we do now, I'm not understanding your assertion.

If you were raped would you just move on or would you want justice?

Yes and they were wrong, they found out they were wrong and changed their world view, what is your point?

Can you give a citation for that assertion? This animal would seem to negate your assertion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon At one time animals like this were in the mammal linage, not a direct ancestor but much like the platypus and echidna they are branches from the same ancestors..

When I use the word avenge sports is not what I am referring to, diminishing the idea of punishing those who do wrong is not a trivial thing and it is necessary in a civilized society. Yes some people do get away with atrocities but actively weeding out those people cannot change the past but it is good for the future of society...

If civilization falls humans might all worship an atomic bomb, there is a distinct different between modern science and religion, religion has never been true, it's wasn't an accurate representation of reality then and it was known not to be then. Point of fact the bible explicitly states the earth is a flat disc under a Chrystal dome floating in and surrounded by water. The Greeks knew better and estimated the diameter of the earth with reasonable accuracy before the bible was written... There are other examples...

I'll take that bet but the difference is that religion is true no matter what reality says, I'm betting physics books of today will not be worshiped as the word of god...

No you are correct but sometimes what ever happened can be avenged...

I have to address this, religion, Christian and Muslim still practice stoning people to death, just because it occurs in some far off land where you seldom hear of it doesn't make it non existent. http://www.religionnews.com/2014/05/28/pregnant-pakistani-woman-stoned-death-family/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning Christianity has been gelded by most modern societies but burning alive is more common than stoning. http://thetaleofbittertruth.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/suspected-witches-burned-alive-by-christians-in-kenya/

The Urantia book is quite a good story but then I read it from the stand point of science fiction..

No, in fact if taken literally Jesus was the son of the holy ghost, the decent of women wasn't important so we don't know much about Mary's blood line... Is that the only mistake you are concerned with? There are quite a few huge "mistakes" in the bible not the least of which is assuming is was all written as a book....

http://www.tickld.com/x/why-you-should-never-mess-with-an-engineer-this-is-priceless http://assets.amuniversal.com/0bc889f000bf01328df1005056a9545d

I doubt that crater was caused by a meteorite, it's rather small is the main reason, a rock falling from space small enough to make that crater would slow down too much to cause a crater from interacting with the air and should be visible in the crater. It looks more like an underground explosion. Is there a minimum size for a crater on the earth due to atmospheric drag? If you drop a person from 500 feet and one from 5000 feet they both hit the ground at the same speed.

I was just poking the bear a little bit, I guess I should have used an emoticon..sorry John...

So you don't see how it could work so it can't work?

Not real?

I was using humans as an example, you were using chimps nonetheless you are incorrect..

Why do you assume that homosexuality precludes having sex with someone of the opposite gender? I know many homosexuals, both male and female and all of them have had sex with someone of the opposite gender at some point. Being homosexual means that your preferred sexual partner is some one of the same sex it does not mean you cannot have sex with any but those of the same gender. Sexual preference is not a white or black on or off proposition. Sexuality is a spectrum of sexual preferences...

This new laser weapon works in fog, rain and other laser unfriendly conditions... http://www.gizmag.com/boeing-laser-directed-energy-weapon-fog/33672/