Moontanman

Well other than the people i genuinely share interests with most are old high school friends and relatives with a few work related friends mixed in, a pretty good representation of the world.. well i kinda hope not but from what i see it is...

Well then you should start your own religion because you will find that with out laws to geld the religions we have now we would almost certainly go back to killing each other over who believes in god the right way... hell we do it now in some places and we certainly do judge people on what religion or what sub set of what religion they think is true... Again, religion, given real power, always results in conflict over who is worshiping the right way or the right god, often that conflict is violent and deadly. These things ignore the black hole of money that religion is, begging for many to help the poor while the leaders live in palatial splendor and very little if any of the money does anything but promote the religion...

Lately i have been trying to engage people who make those political and some religious posts where they give one side or the other down the road for "believing" this or that to see if they can back up what they assert... Guess what... so far all I get are talking points, no real discussion or explanation for why they think this or that is true. It's so bad that when i question gun control they run out of talking points and begin to talk about abortion. Or if i question religion i usually get blocked or told i am going to burn in hell fire and that if i was honest i would see the truth of the one true savior or something like that. I know that face book is not a real forum but somehow from the way these people asserted their view points I figured I would be challenged better.

I think it would depend on your definition of God as to how many believe in God here, it's a sure bet the fundamentalist Christian view is not as popular as it might be in a more representative sample of the population outside the forum... Looking for divine intervention are we?

I'm sure you know that pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter but my guess it is due to space/time being flat that makes this constant.. well.. a constant. Maybe someone here who knows for sure can inform us.. oops, cross posted with swansonT

No, in fact it is this heat that drives plate tectonics not the expansion of the Earth, for the Earth to actually expand would require heat that would vaporize the surface or adding mass. for the earth to expand enough to have split the continents apart from a point where they are all joined to the point they are now would require adding something like 6 times the Earth's volume in extra matter. Not the present volume of the Earth but the proposed volume of the smaller Earth. for the continents to be all together due to the Earth being smaller would mean the Earth at that time was about the size Mars is today..

Azolla is like a watery lichen in some ways, a fern that is symbiotic with a cyanobacteria instead of a fungus, it's only limiting nutrient is phosphorus... I grow it in vats as a way to remove phosphates from water and as a medium to grow plants in. Water it grows in becomes clear and sweet. Here are some of my azolla vats getting started, they started out two weeks ago with a handful of azolla by the end of the summer i will have barrels of it just from my little operation.

Please watch this video... but the main thing to remember is that no, our earth is not getting bigger by any amount that would allow this to happen... Of course if you have a mechanism that would make the earth expand please let us know what it is, an expanding earth would also mean an Earth that is getting more massive, higher gravity, the expansion of the earth continents we see today has happened in around 500 million years, in fact the continents have moved together and apart more than once in that time span, does that mean the earth is expanding and contracting?

I love this, like sharks attracted to blood in the water, but I wonder how long it would turn compared to a identical wheel but with out the over balanced part. Would it make any real difference between the two systems?

Sometimes i think that the people who profess the extreme type of faith are really terrified of death and religion takes advantage of this causing them, for want of a better explanation, to '"whistle in the dark" deep down they really don't believe it and it makes them crazy to prove they do by asserting some of the most disingenuous bullshit imaginable... I get this from the fundamentalist creationist types for sure...

I agree if God can't even stop a child from being sexually brutalized what good is he even if he does exist?

Umm since when does turning a shark up side down kill it? citation please... btw i know that not true from a great many captive sharks...

If you want to go with the best plant to grow and make bio mass fast I would try Azolla, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla

Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder and inner beauty is the only part that doesn't fade with time...

Actually the tidal bulge is on both sides of the planet even if the sun and moon are in alignment on the same side of the planet...

It's not a debate, it's science supported by empirical evidence and creationism supported by lies and deceit... oh and yeah "belief"... no contest, and yes i have been in a few debates about this... in fact if you care to look you'll find several right here on SFN...

No debate dude, none, no facts support creationism what so ever...

Well based on what you perceive is correct and true due to your need to feel good or bad about something, as in "I know god is real because it makes me feel so good to know god is real" or "I just feel like it has to be true" or I know unicorns are real because I like them so much such" personally i would like to "believe that serial killers are a demented fantasy" but belief does not equal knowledge...

Hard to say in the squashed state but it looks a little like a huntsman spider to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider

Emotions

He has been completely rational to me, what is it you don't get? Faith, the religious kind, which has no basis in reality to hang anything on but feelings, how could he be more clear?

If frogs had wings PS...

What facts does religion use to advance their point of view?

Exactly what facts does religion have? What truth does religion uncover? How does religion explain anything about how our world works? yoga and quantum theory... seriously?

And that depends on god having some evidence for it's existence wouldn't it? If I believed in fairies would that mean I am broken?