Recent content by DTBeast

I'm glad to hear that creationism is on the decline in other parts of the world, unfortunately here in the Southern Region of the USA it is way alive and well. Thankfully the school board in Louisiana stopped the stupid from infiltrating their textbooks, but Texas still hasn't given up making...

when talking about religion and maybe politics, I tend to agree with him. When talking about health matters (he denies germ theory and is anti-vax), Animal Rights (He is a PeTA member), or diet (he is somewhere in the vegitarian/vegan/raw foodie spectrum) I disagree strongly. while he has...

well, by conservapedia's standards, anything to the left of Fox News is godless socialist communist nazi propaganda

unless, of course, half the point of the mission is PR and to prove that the US is better then Russia... you want to be able to show EVERYONE what's going on.

I think being able to sit in a bathtub full of $100 bills may help

I meant to edit my first post, because people who get legal gay marriages in Mass, Cali, or Iowa and move to other states will have grounds to sue the state to get them to recognize the marriage, striking down the blatantly unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, because the courts cannot...

What I like about this decision is it will essentially makes gay marriage legal in all states, even if they have to drive to California to get married, the "full faith and credit" clause of the constitution any legally binding contract made in any state of the union must be given "Full Faith and...

the problem with that is if ""the truth" is nothing accessible to our consciousness" then all knowledge is by definition false and all pursuits of knowledge are fools errands. Thankfully it is pretty easy to show that even if reality is different for everyone if we agree on some definitions we...

I feel that your ideas have been "pre-considered failures" because you have not shown your work, you attempt to overthrow mathematical models that do an excellent job of explaining the orbits of the planets, the formation of the universe, and the positions and movements of the stars and galaxies...

Re: relativity demands agreement over yardsticks Well, I don't think anyone here is going to argue with you that we will ever know "the whole truth" or have "complete knowledge" or that anything we know is 100% certain. This is why Scientists usually qualify statements with "Our current...

I don't know, perhaps by the super important YET he is trying to imply that we already know everything there is to know, that time itself is an illusion and a meaningless definition, or (more likely based on his video) we know nothing and can never know anything because reality is fundamentally...

this guy was pretty religious and not too shabby with the Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

I thought this would be appropriate for this thread. and while Hitchens himself would probably gripe about people offering to pray for him, he is kind of a professional provocateur. I still like his stuff though.

you can always give the kids a famous scientist's last name as a first name, I have met a kid named Darwin. also I think Sagan would be a pretty cool first name

the problem with this line of thinking is that you think "Religion vs. Atheism" is a binary choice, but the question that logically follows is which religion is correct? Hindu? Buddhism? Islam? Of course not, most Americans(sorry I made you American because I'm from the US) would say It's...