Moontanman

oh I'm ready for them... The existence of screaming harry Potter fans does not mean harry Potter was a real person or that Hogworts exists or that magic works...

But the new testament is not obviously true, it is indeed more likely totally made up centuries after the fact. There is no independent record of anything Jesus did until almost 100 years after his death and that is almost certainly false and inserted in someone else's writings a couple hundred years later by christians who are notorious for lying to support their religion... There is no local conformation of the Life of jesus other than the new testament, no record of 3 hours of darkness during his crucifixion, the earth quake, the walking dead saints, these are things even non believers would have noticed... No record of a miracle worker among the jews no record of anything in the new testament other than the new testament that was written well after the fact...

I think you need to elaborate on that, the ancestors of potatoes were indeed poisonous... and if there is a plant that has been more changed by selective breeding than corn I can't imagine what it is... except maybe the banana but the banana man found that out the hard way... I am genuinely confused by the whole gm foods thing, I can't see how it is much if any worse than selective breeding, I'd certainly rather eat GM food than starve but the detractors would rather have people starve than eat GM food...

There is also the fact the Jesus is not mentioned in any historical records or writings other than the new testament. Quite few things that happened at the time of the crucifixion, earth quakes, three hours of darkness, the walking dead saints are not mentioned in any of the writings or records of the time. the first mention of Jesus and his miracles or christians wasn't until almost 100 years later and that is almost certainly inserted in those writings a couple hundred years later by christians who are notorious for lying to support their religion.

Well then, can you use that to falsify the concept of god?

Short of the scenario robheus speaks of I would say no, life will not ever be extinct as long as planets can form and exist around stars. Are you suggesting that life on earth is the only life or asking if life on earth can become extinct then yes, it will become extinct in a few billion years for sure. It's doubtful the conditions that allowed life to form on the earth will be repeated after the earth is sterilized by the death of the sun... Life is not accidental...

I kinda thought about the same thing, but with a couple moderate sized theropod dinosaurs rearing up out of the bushes after everyone was about half drunk.... or maybe a terror bird...

I notice that you didn't term white supremacy as traitors... Being progressive and communist are not synonymous no matter how much you want them to be... Most Progressives are traitors? Most Conservatives are not? come on... You really have yet to demonstrate that is true, traitors seems to be mostly defined by the right, the right cries traitors when someone farts in front of them... by definition any one who disagrees with the right are traitors... All except for those secrete ones? it's called freedom, it matters no matter who is pushing an agenda... I think they are all batshitcrazy... When was polygamy brought into this? They can push it all they want but it's not the way our constitution works and I would fight it tooth and toe nail... rule of law only works if everyone is subject to the same law... This i agree with... Damn I am right wing in Australia... wow!

That is relatively cool, if i had a yard or neighbors and money i would buy a bunch of them...

I see, so right wing is good left wing is bad? We can have right wing organizations but left wing cannot be allowed to exist... yes that sounds about right... This simply has no bearing on this subject and is a highly conflated version of reality... McCarthyism was witch hunt, I am quite sure there were communists present at that time, some were operating openly and under our constitution they should have had that right. McCarthyism ruined the lives and careers of innocent people, they conflated the danger of communism and used the resulting fear for their own political gain. Michele Bachmann is doing the exact same thing, the Muslim Brotherhood has not deep penetrated our government, if she had evidence of that it should have been presented secretly to the justice department not announced on the radio.. I am just as concerened that fundamentalist Christianity has "deeply penetrated" our government, they are doing their best to destroy us from with in, turn our secular government into a theocracy, make religion law, take away the basic rights of anyone who is not following Jesus the way they think he should be followed, they are the clear and present danger and Michele Bachmann is one of them. Crying wolf while she tears down the gates to let the hoards in to destroy us from with in... It's happening at the state level all over the country, my home state just amended the constitution to disenfranchise homosexuals and even male/female couples who are living together... Religion cannot be allowed to become the law of the land no matter how much you love Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, or truly believe the earth is 6,000 years and Noah's Ark actually happened... You don't announce this publicly if you are serious, you don't want to tip your had to the very people you are looking for, she did it for no reason other than political gain, she wanted to spread fear among her constituents so she could garner votes, no other reason... We need religion for a moral authority? Really? Really!? If Islam would allow it's self to gelded then I could tolerate them, Christianity was just as bad as Islam in promoting middle age "morality" before it was gelded by the enlightenment, personally I don't want to see someones head cut off because he insults Islam, it happens in the middle east at the drop of the least doubt that allah is great, no other point of view is allowed under threat of death. Someone who just wants to stop being Muslim is killed, atheists are dead meat if found. Religion needs to die not be allowed to drag civilization back down the rat hole of fundamentalism... Islam did that with the Muslim civilization and they have yet to recover, in fact they are still trying to drag us down as we speak... BTW JohnB, is that video right wing or left wing, I'm not really sure...

I think the number of limbs on vertebrates was set long before there were mammals. John Varley got by this impasse in his Gaen trilogy Titan Wizard and Demon by proposing that his centaurs while chordates were in fact not vertebrates and had a spinal column of cartilage, biological engineering has many possibilities...

John, i am really amazed, I expected quite a bit better from you, the argument here is not if the Muslim brotherhood or who ever is out to get us, I am quite sure there are more groups out to get us than we can both count on our toes and fingers and by unzipping both our flys... The stupid woman claimed they have "deeply penetrated" our government and are taking over from with in, this is the dumbest statement I have heard in quite some time and if it was true Michele Bachmann is a complete dumb ass for making it public before having some evidence of who they are in our government. If it is true, by tipping her hand before knowing who they are, she has made them if anything doubly difficult to find, god what a dumb ass thing to say...

Centaurs would be cool, i want to be a centaur...

but none the less quite accurate...

Actually we can create an analog to something as simple as mosquito, in fact we have robots that whose behaviors is at least as complex. This makes no real sense. I don't see how you can say that the pyramids cannot be explained, that is nonsense...

No one asked you to do that typist...

In my house I do the house work and my wife works, I rather like it...

Hmmm, this has potential, i think I'll introduce it to my awesome wife and see if it works.... dishes is not what i have in mind... dishes I can do with no problem...

i think genetic engineering could be used to eliminate the need for living animals and allow plants to produce fruit that is animal flesh, like breaking open a coconut type shell and having it full of say shrimp or fish or beef. I see no reason it would be impossible... Not if you have fee will...

That is an assertion I would like to see elaborated...

Bragging about being banned many times is a bad sign for sure...

Time is all there is, nothing but time... it sounded good at the time... oh and btw, welcome to the forum, the time of your life i am sure...

http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/1c495e208f03012f2fe200163e41dd5b http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/1b0ab8608f03012f2fe200163e41dd5b http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/562f33b01df3012f2fc700163e41dd5b http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/5e294c708f02012f2fe200163e41dd5b

It would depend greatly on how small the mesh was and how thin the sharp object was, chain mail should stop a knife quite handily, a very fine mesh impregnated with plastic and a layer of kevlar fiber should have some stopping power. Not all shark teeth are triangular but they are not round rods either... Possibly the person being attacked should just shoot the bastard... Just kidding, this is a difficult thing to engineer, there is a need for a needle proof glove in medicine, very difficult to achieve as well... The polycarbonate scales looks like a good direction to go. Polycarbonate scales over a kevlar layer might do both jobs, stopping bullets and sharp objects...

The really sad thing is that conservatives have embraced people like Michele Bachmann, she serves on the house intelligence committee, she gives stupidity a bad name, she couldn't find her ass in the dark with both hands and a flashlight. I am not a died in the wool progressive or anything else, I consistently look at both sides looking for the best ideas but in recent years, decades really, but most definitely in recent years conservatives seem to be embracing the absolute most stupid people they can find, yes I said stupid, not ignorant but stupid, stunningly stupid. Ronald Reagan, who they nearly deify, and who wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer to start with, but he was not stupid, he must be spinning at about 10,000 rpm these days, the rumble must be deafening... at least 6.0 on the Richter scale... In an effort to embrace their right wing religious base they have not only allowed stupid to rule the roost they make no effort to even try and lead these people away from stupid, in fact they tout stupid like it is the breath of life. I honestly can't see how anyone with any intelligence what so ever could really vote for such a person but since she believes in Jesus and YEC she must be superior, yes superior, to a rock, no a rock is just a rock, she is willfully dumber than a rock, a rock has no choice...