Moontanman

In a pinch you could build a camp fire out of them... Aluminum cans burn quite well...

But where does the objective morality that allows you to to say that human trafficking is wrong or that might makes right is wrong. Where does this objective morality come from? I think all morality is subjective... What would that intention be?

In the spirit of a fair and balanced portrayal of a song about America I offer this...

Zombie apocalypse problem solved....

I have the entire thing on Laser Disc, I love the pirate alphabet, eeeeeyyyyyyeeee "My god it's a 50's fit! 50cc of rum and coke stat"....

So this aspect of your argument consists of Billions of flies eat excrement so it must be good to eat? Reality is not up for popular vote, it is what it is and the evidence does not point to intelligent design... your OP is simply an attempt to perpetrate a lie... a strawman argument, chance is not why life came into being, chemistry is why life came into being, it did because it could, because for some period of time conditions were correct to allow complex molecules capable of replication to come into being naturally. It is probable that some wort of mechanism similar to natural selection might have driven this process but at this point we can't be sure. One thing is sure is that not knowing does not mean "god did it" or "aliens did it" the source of lightning was once thought to be god, anyone who was struck by lightning was though to have incurred gods wraith, no other explanation was available but that didn't make the assertion that god did it correct and now we know what causes it and how to prevent being struck by it, at first certain theists actually thought it was wrong to prevent lightning from striking because we were interfering with gods will... god did it is not an answer to anything... and strawmen are easy to burn down...

Quite the contrary, life is that which replicates with variation...

Just for rigney, no other reason... sorry i gave the wrong link... of you look at this in the right time index this is almost prophetic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTmuLHFsKE No this is the one I meant to post... no excuse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEPxc3RW4js The thing must cycle or something...

And yet again we are faced with the logical fallacy of your assertion....

Well then things like slavery, human trafficking, might makes right, genocide, aggressive war like behavior, incest, among other things must be ok.... Yes but would his answer still be based on misinformation?

Is there any chance that BeanieB is going to address my questions?

There is no evidence that Jesus as described in the New Testament ever existed, the first mention of Jesus anyplace outside the bible was almost a century after his death that is widely regarded as added a couple hundred years after the fact by christians who are famous for lying to support their religion.

It would be terror if the Martians knew humans....What was it an old Indian told one of our lunar astronauts when he was asked if he had a message for any moon people, he said "don't trust these guys they'll steal your land...

Is it possible the spout has become partially blocked by minerals that were left behind when it boiled dry? Or could the stainless steel layers separated from each other and left spaces for steam to form and get trapped?

Where may I ask does your ideas on objective morality come from? Why is human trafficking wrong? Why is might makes right wrong? Who set those standards? BTW there are a great many examples of cooperation and different species helping each other, the animals kingdom is not exclusively eat or be eaten...

Unless of course you are baptist, then you can't dance because someone might think you are making love standing up... Very loose quote of Cheech and Chong....

Well lets just hope it wasn't programmed in feet and measured in meters....

your continued attempts to portray technology based education with NAZIsm is flawed and not a viable comparison... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

Just for you rigney...

I don't understand the reference to NAZI in this, Hitler was religious, a great many men who have been the center of a cult of personality and were believers in a god separate and apart from their own cult. Many have used religion to promote their own cult of personality but I don't see how NAZI enters into this as many NAZI's were devoutly religious and not inherently evil people...

The recent yeah guns thread has inspired me to share my thoughts on this, first of all i carry a hand laser with me every place i go in my pocket, my wife keeps one in her purse and I keep one in my cars glove box.... I know big deal, hand held lasers are not going to make a difference in a crisis.... or would they? I started this idea of carrying lasers with me every where I go when a car driving the local interstate ran off the road into the swamp, the people were trapped in their car and died of exposure, it was winter. A simple hand held laser could have been used to signal for help, at night a laser shown skyward or toward tree tops would attract attention like no flash light could. A laser can be used to signal for help even in day light if you have a reasonable line of sight with someone else. How does this tie in with defense, I use old style red lasers that are weak and harmless, i have looked into them and it's just a dazzling light but new hand held lasers can ignite flammable materials at close range and blind an assailant easily. They are even dangerous to an air liner pilots miles away a good green or blue hand held laser could have blinded the guy in the theater shooting instantly, the tear gas was not immediately thick enough to stop such a laser and his goggles would have been a joke. More reasonably a gun with a laser sight could have been used to hit him directly in the face, I stopped using hand guns because I felt my aim wasn't good enough to actually hit something but I have used laser sighted pistols and they are death, the bullet goes where the dot is, or very close to it. I think a 9mm with a laser sight could have taken out that suspect with one shot... even if the person wasn't a "expert" marksman...

How does insisting that people pay a fair share of taxes in anyway disrespect them? Why should the wealthy pay less in taxes than the middle class? The very wealthy do not put anything like what they get out of our society back in, there is no reason why they should pay less in taxes than the middle class. That you tube video has nothing to do with tax equality between the wealthy and the middle class and everything to do with local zoning laws, definitely a strawman.

I think is a reasonable question and one I have given some thought to. Science tells us we have pretty good evidence that these phenomena are so long lasting that the 2.5 million years the light takes to get here is very small in comparison to the length of their existence... But it is also true we have no objective way to say they are there right now.... Even our eyesight can be said to be something that happened nano seconds ago. Everything we see is in the past, the sun we see in the sky is really what the sun was like 8 minutes or so ago, Alpha Centaurus is 4.5 years in our past, that galaxy is just 2.5 million years in our past...

Where I live there have been two, I think, maybe three violent daytime or evening home invasions in the last three years or so. None of the people were able to respond and violence was done to the people inside the house in all cases. Regular break ins, stealth type, happen more often but seem to usually result in no injury just a smash and grab type thing, usually by someone the victims knew. In none of the cases I'm aware of did the victims have dogs... I have to admit I am guilty of late of carrying my shotgun around with me in the house during the day, drug dealers are too unpredictable but I do listen to my dogs and when they run to the door and sniff and act restless i do check and see if anyone is walking around my yard. Four times I have accosted someone who was in my yard for no good reason but they were not obviously up to anything and the noise of the dogs seemed to concern them greatly.

ya might be a redneck if....