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What defines religion (split from correlation w/poverty)
Moontanman replied to immortal's topic in Religion
All immortal ever provides as evidence is appeals to authority, he has no empirical evidence what so ever... -
His description dishonestly suggested that a whale directly evolved from a fish, that is a lie, he knows it, but he said it anyway. in reality a whale is a mammal which evolved from a reptile which evolved from an amphibian which evolved from a fish (very simplified version) so he tried to ridicule evolution by saying something that seemed to be true, the average person who has knowledge of evolution probably understands the line of decent in a simple way, but it is not a direct line of decent from a fish to a whale, he knows it but his main goal is to obfuscate the situation, not lend any real understanding of it...
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You have to believe in magic... Lyrics by Ann and Nancy Wilson...
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your link in no way supports this assertion... if you think it does feel free to elaborate... I'm not sure what you are trying to show here, please elaborate... Absurd assertions do not trump reality, yes a tiny fish did indeed over many millions years evolve evolve into a whale but to try and say the decent is direct to lend credence to your assertion that evolutionary theory is absurd is more than a bit less than honest... You know what you said was not accurate, why did you make such a statement if you are looking for reality? Again this is indeed technically true but your attempt to make it look absurd fails on a great many levels as do all creationist arguments, they do not have the science to back up their horse feathers so they try and use subterfuge to discredit what they cannot do with real evidence.. yes, a population of herbivores can over successive generations evolve a population of carnivores but your mechanism is false and nothing but an attempt to use ridicule instead of evidence to win your position, totally dishonest dude but that is what Creation Science is all about, lies and misdirection, nothing more...
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Creation Science is an oxymoron... lets try real science... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle Can you give some evidence of the idea that evaporation of oxygen drives rainfall? How does this support your assertion that placing dung in a desert will result in the desert becoming productive? I suggest you do so, but since a desert island can refer to an island that has no soil but doesn't mean no rain, i wait to see if your study is relevant... Actually higher levels of CO2 can be shown to decrease modern vegetation growth due to acidic conditions created by extra CO2... Don't be insulting, it does nothing to support a bad argument...
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First So Called Human Ancestor Revealed
Moontanman replied to mansamusa's topic in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology
Not an entirely accurate description of the article huh? -
Higher temps will be bad for some good for others but ultimately it will not be possible to predict who it will be good or bad for other than to say the areas where food production is highest seem to be the most vulnerable. Absolutely not true, the sun was dimmer in the past and is demonstrably getting warmer, size is not an issue either way... Again, since your basic premise is false this makes no sense. This too is false, vegetation growth is more driven by rainfall than animal excrement, a desert is a desert no matter how much manure you place there and rotting manure results in more CO2 not less... During the time of the dinosaurs the temps were warmer on average, more active volcanoes equal more CO2 which of course equals higher temps, the poles were subtropical with short cold winters and no ice caps. Yes vegetation is thought to have been more prolific then but due to CO2 levels and higher sea levels. Possibly oxygen was slightly higher then as well. Continental drift had the continents in different positions as well and that had an effect on the climate too. There were some draw backs to this scenario, stratified oceans with a thin oxygenated layer over anoxic conditions. This would be a problem for us today. I am quite sure that life can adapt to higher temps but humans maybe not so much.
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I hope you're wrong... I also hope I win the lotto... Gaseous core nuclear light bulbs rule! I agree, I live near a nuclear power plant and a coal fired power plant, I've never seen protesters at the coal fired site enough it can be shown that the coal powered site releases literally orders of magnitude more radioactivity than a nuclear power plant, i actually walked up to a group of protesters one day and asked them why... the look of "wut?" was a classic...
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So the wings aren't going to weigh anything?
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I once came up with this little fantasy to explain what that would look like, I'm not sure if the warp field would complicate this scenario but here goes. If you had a space ship that could travel faster than light, my idea was a ship that makes lots of tiny but instantaneous jumps and the cumulative effect was FTL. I think the ship would suddenly appear and an image of the ship would appear to recede into the distance away from you as the light reflected off the ship got to you after the ship arrived. Now, what would the ship leaving look like? Why wouldn't it?
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Ummm, he has been banned...
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you guys take all the fun out of being a half wit, i think I'll take my fantasies and go home... no wait the nuclear option... I think i'll take that one with me too before you ruin it...
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Life not as we know it... How do we find it?
Moontanman replied to Moontanman's topic in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology
I'm not sure if I agree, the shadow biosphere, if it exists, is thought to be wide spread and would not have emerged recently... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_biosphere -
Since you are rarely wrong and I have no clue I am going to assume you are correct but if the spin states are only two possibilities and they have to be different then how is it relevant they are unknown until you check them, the different colored balls are unknown as well until they are checked...
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D H = spoilsport... reality is seldom what we want it to be... hard facts are so painful to swallow...
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I have to ask... I have read and been told a great many times that entanglement is something weird, counter intuitive, i think it was Einstein who was quoted as calling it spooky action at a distance... Simply knowing one thing because the other has to be the only other option is not counter intuitive in any way and is simple logic... Why is this so obfuscated?
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Life not as we know it... How do we find it?
Moontanman replied to Moontanman's topic in Evolution, Morphology and Exobiology
Te he he he... I left off part of my post, i meant to mention the shadow biosphere concept... oops... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_biosphere The shadow biosphere is a proposed biosphere made up of organisms that use a radically different biochemistry that currently know organisms. Some people have proposed that such organisms might be found in isolated or extreme environments and the environments below these ice lakes is indeed both... -
I'm curious, did you read post #12?
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What defines religion (split from correlation w/poverty)
Moontanman replied to immortal's topic in Religion
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I think this comes close to being an axiom for space mining... anything that can be made in space should be made in space... and repaired in space..
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Some do, some don't, some don't even have irises, haven't you ever looked into the eyes of various animals? Cats have variously colored irises, as do dogs but insects have totally different eyes, compound eyes, but their eyes can be wildly varying in color as well.. Yes, if not precisely the same the end result is the same... but if you mean mammals then yes, pretty much the same way.. Some animals have eyes so good they make humans visually challenged others have eyes that see into the ultraviolet and others see into the infrared but yes many animals have vision very similar to humans...
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What defines religion (split from correlation w/poverty)
Moontanman replied to immortal's topic in Religion
So you don't think that some of Hinduism might have been borrowed by Christians? Isn't that more likely than the Aeons exist? It's certainly demonstrable that Christianity borrowed many concepts from other religions, the trinity for example... In fact I think that all religions have borrowed from those that came before and any profound connection is more likely to be due to plagiarism than divine revelation... The Earth is not composed of many cultures existing in a vacuum, all of the earth is connected culturally at some level... On top of that you have humans all with very similar minds having similar "revelations" and not unexpectedly similar hallucinations when exposed to similar hallucinogens ... wouldn't occam's razor suggest the connection is the biological mind instead of the divine?