Moontanman

Ok, that makes sense...

Ultimately the world is not going to flourish no matter what humans do. But humans have the capability to spread Gaea's complex life forms to other planets... sooo humans are the reproductive organs of Gaea... that means humans are... wait for it...

So radio waves have more photons per " centimeter of wave" than gamma rays? Seems more than a bit counter intuitive to me but then so do many aspects of physics...

Shouldn't that be the shorter the wave length the more photons you have?

Immortal, your entire attitude about this could be changed simply by electrodes planted in the correct spot, destroy your brain and you cease to exist, destroy certain parts and you lose who you are but you remain a thinking being, remove other parts and your body lives on but you are no longer at home. You do not exist independent of your brain... You cannot produce any evidence that you do exist apart from your brain why would you assume such thing? Because of what some ancient Author wrote while hallucinating? Then alien abductions must be real... So my friends who worship the Moon Goddess Adrianna are not part of your set of real religions?

Ummm... which Pagan Religion are you talking about dude?

And he gets a prolonged GROAN from the audience... I have managed to grow several generations of three sea slug species common to my area, they are very interesting animals...

Good points but it is possible that at some distant time he will be waiting for me on the other side and I'll have to face him for judgement... no wait, he's not god, he's god's messenger.. well he says he has special knowledge no one else has... he's fun to poke with a stick?

I think I'd do a bit of reading the science pertinent to this before i made that assertion, space can indeed expand and contract... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space

I'm not sure there is an appropriate comment on this...

you are mistaken, the vast majority of mutations are neutral, you were born with around 120 mutations...

Yeah, it's pretty bad, science has so failed to bring anything to the world, no new knowledge, i still think medicine is bollocks as well, Science is so useless, we would all be so much better off with out science and the so called scientific method...

Come dude, you know... the world wide conspiracy to hide the truth...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/resigning-pope-no-longer-has-strength-to-lead-chur,31248/

So you are not part of the plan? calling black helicoters

Rigney, are you talking total killings or per capita?

Yes it does, the fossil record is replete with specimens that are transitory between various groups but the one you picked is quite complete, Humans can be followed by fossils all the way to apes to monkeys and beyond, there is no evidence that would indicate that apes or any other form of life just magically appeared fully formed as we see them now... since this does nothing to refute evolution or common descent I see no reason to strike out on a new course that has nothing to do with evolution... No, I do not and you have failed to indicate any reason i or anyone else should see it This, i think, points to a major disconnect between what you think science is and what science really is...

A great video from the golden age of video music... just before MTV killed video music...

​ I am skeptical... This is demonstrably not true, immortal why do you not see this? Your mind does not exist independent from the brain, your brain is all you have, change it in even a minor way and your mind is no more... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

No, they are evidently true, evidence points very strongly in the direction of common descent and in no other direction... In a court of law the evidence for evolution is similar to deductive reasoning, such evidence is commonly used to solve murders where there is no eye witnesses... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning At one time it would be difficult to refute your assertions with complete certainty but now with genetics we can indeed say that all life on earth is evidently not only related but descended from earlier life forms. I have to ask, what evidence do you have that various life forms were specially created? The fossil record certainly doesn't show any evidence for this and the genes do not give us any indication of this, in fact the genes say that all life is related. Again not true, the fossil evidence indicates common descent and so do the genes... Can you provide any evidence of special creation? Yup, Horses and donkeys can mate and have viable off spring and they differ genetically by 2 chromosomes... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology) It is not impossible...

Great illustration of the concept...

I'll treat this as an honest question and give you an honest answer, no one is really sure, all we know for sure is that there are (afaik) three basic linage's of organisms that seem to have emerged after a very long time in which DNA was freely exchanged between all organisms and the idea of common decent as we know it is inapplicable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea Eukaryotes have further diverged by the inclusion of bacteria as part of their cells, mitochondria and chloroplasts are two examples of this. There is a hypothesis that Eukaryotes are a fusion of bacteria and archaea but I'm not sure if this is mainstream science or not. Actually it does, you seem to be expecting an ape to give birth to a non ape, this is not what happens, evolution occurs in populations not individuals... As i said earlier, if you could somehow look outside time and see all of your ancestors (or mine for that matter) there would never be a individual that you could point to and say that is the first human. Each and every generation would be predominantly the same as it's parents with tiny differences the same way your children are similar to you but not identical, the further back you go the bigger the differences would be but at no time would a parent look down and wonder if their child was not the same species as themselves... I'm not sure how this is relevant, perhaps you should elaborate... Actually we do interbreed animals that are further apart biologically than a human and say a Bonobo chimp, genetically there is a problem due to one of chromosomes having to do with reproduction being radically different but I doubt the experiment has ever been done, a chimp might object to mating with a human (considering how strong chimps are that could be a very bad thing for the man) but it has been proposed that with a little technological intervention it could be done... the resulting off spring would probably be a sterile "mule" but it is not impossible by any means...

chickens came from jungle fowl, if you were able to trace any one chicken and trace it's origin from each chicken to the last chicken generation before you would at no time be able to point to a particular chicken and say this is where the chicken became a chicken. Even though you could look back as far as you liked there would be a complete spectrum of chicken all way back to a lizard or if you wanted you could trace it back to a single eukaryotic cell but at no time could you pick out an egg and say yes that's the egg the first chicken came from, yet again you show the dishonest creationist tactic of ridiculing science with no real knowledge of science your self. you could trace your own linage the same way and all you would get is a spectrum of individuals that slowly over time have more and more monkey like traits but at no time would you be able to point to an individual and say "yes that's the first human" BTW, every human is born with mutations, the average is something like 120 mutations per zygote but older fathers pass down more mutations than younger ones... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7412/full/nature11396.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120823 Seriously dude, your lack of understanding does not falsify the thing you know nothing about...

No, no one with any knowledge of evolution would suggest this, why do you? Again, no, you display a disturbing lack of knowledge even about what evolution is much less how it works. Your point would be? How is this comment relevant to the issue at hand? Umm... fit perfectly together? Can you confirm this? This is relevant how? Please elaborate, this appears to be nonsensical from the perspective of science and evolution... So you do know the definition of creationism... Where did they get the hip bones? Why would whales have hip bones? Think this through... When did they drown? Who says they did?

As the sun begins to seriously age it will begin to expand until it occupies the orbit of Venus at least, the surface of the earth will become hotter than Venus is now. This sun will be a red giant, it will radiate away more energy than it does now, but this irrelevant to the issue at hand... I am still stuck on the "oxygen evaporates" and causes rain thing, what do you mean by this? No, actually a very old range was used, in the example i am thinking of, the Appalachians, no volcanoes Anecdotal evidence is irrelevant here...