Moontanman

No, remote viewing does not work, the US military did extensive experiments with it and found it did not work at all. This is called quote mining Semjase, it's the equivalent of lying. Dawkins was asked a question pertaining to the possibility of some aliens designing us, he was not promoting the idea. Nothing in biology make sense except in the light of evolution Semjase, how about you name a few of those major problems with Darwin's theory instead of simply claiming there are some? BTW Semjase your link "footnote" is nothing but horsefeathers, it is trying to dredge up old arguments that have been debunked many times and giving them new names, irreducible complexity is not a problem for evolution, yes eyes have evolved independently several times, the idea that the first "cell" had to just poof into existence is totally bogus, behaviors can be passed down through both genes and teaching. and yes speciation has been observed both in the lab and in the wild. It's really quite a dishonest tactic used by creationists to mislead people who want to believe in a creator. Total Fail Semjase....

It doesn't raise questions, it shows that some DNA is parasitic, some of it is from neutral mutations. in amoebas it is thought by some that the enormous amount of DNA is do to an onslaught of viruses, such neutral DNA is the raw materials of evolution but it has nothing to do with the complexity of the animal or plant involved . Metaphysics is an oxymoron, what tangible results has metaphysics ever produced? You can argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin until the universe dies of heat death but science has produced our first world civilization, and put men on the moon, no to mention eradicated some diseases, doubled the average human lifespan and provide food in quantities not even dreamed of be actual science. Metaphysics is a scam, a joke, and Dawkins is right when he says religion is the antithesis of reason.... No one can show god doesn't exist or does exist for that matter in the absence of positive evidence the default position is there are no gods. Can anyone else answer those so called profound questions about the universe? No they cannot... but Dawkins can answer real world questions about the real world which metaphysics cannot do...

The amount of DNA in an organism has nothing to do with it's complexity, that was the point he was making. The why has to do with the amoeba being the host of various viruses, assuming Dawkins is ignorant of religion is something you need to show some evidence of Semjase... Being a non believer doesn't mean you don't know anything about religion, in fact knowledge of religion is the reason many atheists became non believers to star with...

Homosexuality occurs in many other animals and they show no signs of homophobia...

And what would your point be dude?

Was eugenics strictly a racial thing? I know Black people were experimented on more than most due to their lack of rights as human beings but the term eugenics isn't attached to race necessarily is it?

Never ever? That's quite an outrageous assertion.... There are more than one avenue of investigation and several theories as to what was before the big bang. To say it will never be answered is not a bet I would make...

I'm not a scientist but I am baffled by why anyone would be gullible enough to espouse this nonsense....

So all this god does is set the universe in motion and set back and watch the weak and innocent being brutalized by the strong and evil and does nothing about anything? God is Sadistic and evil by this definition...

So god is a sadist? An all powerful being that allows innocents to be brutalized while he watches?

Why is it necessary to invoke a god figure? Why add yet another layer of unknowable mystery to an already unknowable mystery?

Horse feathers....

Since I am not qualified to judge the importance of that equation it would be nice to have someone who is comment on this.

Show us that evidence Semjase, you keep making these assertions, I call bollocks, either show your evidence or admit you have no more evidence that anyone else who claims to know god... Semjase I am not trying to ridicule you, you keep making these assertions and i am genuinely interested in what you are trying to communicate to us. If what you say is supportable by empirical evidence then you are the bringer of the most important information of our current civilization, don't be coy, being secretive with the information borders on criminal, the fate of the human species could hang in the balance if what you say is true. You are the bringer of this information, if god has entrusted you with bringing it to us it's unfair to keep it to yourself...

I have often wondered if a concrete dome home would survive a tornado, they are advertised as being earthquake proof and hurricane proof as well as tornado proof. Both the concrete construction and the shape is supposed to contribute to their durability. Would the shape of a structure really be a significant factor in surviving such storms?

From your link: It is an interesting idea a very interesting idea but my personal favorite is the Ekpyrotic Universe it explains quite a bit about what happened before and how our universe came to be.

I know literally dozens if not hundreds of people who make the claim they have had personal contact with god, none of them can demonstrate any evidence but their belief.... If they had claimed to have had personal contact with the ghost of elvis they might have ended up in a hospital but for some reason people who contact god are afforded special treatment, god can tell them to inseminate dozens of teenage girls and their followers not only believe but allow it, personal contact with god is contact with yourself, your hopes, dreams, and desires, not some being separate from you.... So you claim, I claim i have an invisible dragon that follows me around and gives me advice, how is my claim different than yours?

No, seeing is not believing, if I told you I had seen a dragon would you accept that with no evidence? I tried to show you this with the example of seeing a dinosaur, humans can and do often hallucinate and telling the difference is not an obvious thing. Ok I'll admit my ignorance, how does that equation show evidence of a god?

So doubt makes something more likely to be true?

Would you care to expound on your criticism or are you simply someone who cannot understand reason....

No, if you can't show it you don't know it. To paraphrase AronRa "We don't know everything about anything, and what we do know is always subject to a certain amount of error" Your personal experience is meaningful only to you, if you can't demonstrate it to someone else then it is just something you believe. To again paraphrase AronRa "if you went outside in the middle of the night and saw a sauropod dinosaur walking down your street, you could run up and touch it, smell and maybe even ride it if you wanted. You run back inside to get your camcorder but when you come back out the creature is gone and no trace of it exists, no footprints, no dung, no damage, nothing to back up your claim of what you saw could you really say it was real? Someone else claims to have seen a dinosaur but his description doesn't match yours and was a theropod and obviously not the same one you saw. After days and weeks pass and no sign of the creature turns up even you would have to admit that you might not have actually seen it" Personal experience is not evidence Semjase....

The Tea Baggers are nothing but minions of the Koch brothers. The Tea Party was not a grass roots movement it was designed and orchestrated by the Koch brothers...

Truth.... a loaded word that seldom means anything but what someone believes, can you backup your version of the truth with anything but belief?

I can't speak to other states but North Carolina has not only continued to veer to the right it has driven off the cliff and is in a death plunge into the black hole of religious dominionism, they actually changed the state constitution to invalidate civil unions to make sure gay people could never marry. The law proscribing a state religion was only narrowly defeated and is expected to be submitted again, creationism is widely held as science superior to evolution. I live in a relatively liberal part of the state and the crazies are gaining ground here as well....