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If any method of interstellar flight is going to work, it would probably be "generation ships", self-contained spaceships that humans live, breed and die on until it reaches another planet. There's nothing I can see that's inherently impossible about this as long as you've got enough fuel to...

I'm kind of out of the loop here- what's the ad for?

And they say we must be afraid of death...... What really astonishes me about this is the apparent motives behind it. Any child converted through fear isn't going to believe in God sincerely. It's as if they don't care why people believe, just as long as they do. Of course, to a nonbeliver the...

:roll: "What The Bleep Do We Know" is indeed a valid question that the people responsible for this should be asking themselves. Needless to say, the central premise of the movie is just another example of mew age mysticism mis-using quantum physics. Worse than that, actual scientists were...

If I met any of these people in real life I'd slap them. They're total gobshites who are putting the health of children (not only there's but everyone's) at risk. As far as I know it all started with a scare story that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Since that's been disproved it's changed to...

I'm opposed to the death penalty on several grounds, but on a more visceral level it's the reaction people have to it that turns me against it. Many people absolutely delight in the thought of criminals being executed- it's not a deterent against crime to them, it's a way to sit back and make...

Well, are any of these things different in intensity or frequency from what's been happening at other times in history? This is where "things are getting bad, the world/economy/society is about to end" theories often fall down. The stability of society varies over time, and people often treat...

I find that creationists in general try to do this. When Ken Ham's museum was dropped from a planned combo ticket deal with the San Diego Zoo, he started going on about how the controversy had grown "just because of our Christian faith" when in reality no one opposing the idea ever mentioned...

Hmmm...... I agree that this woman should have been treated like any other suspect, regardless of religious belief. On the other hand, I don't think it was necessary to release it to the media. http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php I don't trust confessions (or any...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090425/tuk-tories-want-academies-for-children-dba1618.html Guess who's going to jump all over this? I'm not saying the people proposing this are pandering to creationists or have anything but good intentions, but you can see how this could turn out.

Will you post the message? I need a good laugh :lol: I wonder if you can get him over here so we can all have a go at him.

Hey Garden. I don't really know what you do in reply to this level of concentrated bigotry, but here's my take on the whole thing: I'm assuming you didn't actually propose that homosexuality is caused by a genetic disorder. Point out that "hardwired" doesn't equal "genetic disorder". This guy...

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson is the book that got me interested in science. Not very "hardcore" but it's hugely entertaining and absorbing.

My half-sister has a mild case of aspergers. They thought it was full blown autism at first, but when she got older the symptoms turned out to not be so severe. I've met her only once and if I hadn't been told beforehand that she had a "disorder" (is that what it's called?) I wouldn't have...

Hey Djarma, I didn't you were on this forum. I like your youtube channel :3 Oh Jesus, I have no doubt about that. Let me tell you, he runs a chat room and me, my brother and a friend took a little trip over there one night. It was full of sycophants- most of whom were far older than PCS- going...

I have yet to ever hear a good reason for hating homosexuals, of any kind. I just can't see any intellectual justification for it. I mean don't get my wrong- if you hate gay people that's your right. I don't agree with you at all, but it's your right. Just don't pretend you've got a good...

I would have no problem if my girlfriend was religious, as long as she had no problem with my atheism. I'd be quite content to just never bring it up- it would be a non-issue.

Let's analyze the stupidity! Challenging? That's a bit of an odd way of putting it. Maybe I'm over-reacting, but it seems to me that Christians are usually very quick to act defensive when they encounter views different to their own. I certainly wouldn't interpret a pro-God sign as a challenge...

I've examined most of the 9/11 conspiracy theories and have yet to find one with merit. All of them suffer the same flaws as creationist argument- misrepresentation and misinterpretation of facts, bias, outright lies and more. Plus, I have yet to ever hear a plausible motive for why the...

I reject religious beliefs because of their faith based nature, but I certainly don't think it's "unacceptable" to believe in God (and I would count myself as one of the militant ones). I don't respect the belief of someone like felixthecoach's mother, but I don't have any problem with it...