Moontanman

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?

Why do they need a God, why not elves or fairies? Why can't people believe in each other? God is not a theory, God is not even a hypothesis, has no evidence what so ever, it is just what someone claims to be true nothing more...

I can't believe i just got pushed/sucked/pulled into reading this thread...

I always figured it was something that came out the other end...

Another one of those weird videos that appears to show something really odd... It does look odd for sure... Sorry, I should have known considering where it came from, i saw it before the comments exposed it as CG enhanced probably a dog...

I would suggest that either street lights haven't been around long enough to have a large effect or the behavior is still doing it's job and not enough moths are affected by it to matter or it's not as big a maladaptation as it looks...

I never thought of triceratops being a pig like animal but I see no reason to state conclusively it was not. An interesting point of view, wild pigs like warthogs certainly seem to have the attitude not sure if they really scavenge much. I always thought of a triceratops as more of a rhino analog. Something new to think about for sure..

I'm not sure it would be correct to suggest feathers instead of scales either. Dinosaurs shared many of the characteristics of birds, hollow bones specialized breathing, even sauropods had these. It has been suggested that hatchlings of theropod dinosaurs had feathers to keep them warm until they became big enough to conserve body heat with mass. Velociraptors were almost certainly covered with feathers and in fact may have had what we would see as long flight feathers on their arms. Feathers would have been used as decorative displays and for warmth as well, crests and other sexual displays could have been made up of feathers as well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur