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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...
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 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...
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...
one of the problems with the whole Organic Foods movement is that it falls prey to the "Appeal to nature" fallacy, but doesn't really think about important technology for food growing i.e. the Haber Processhttp://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-haber-bosch-process.htm a method to process fertilizer...
Growing up in that kind of situation can be really tough on a reasoned individual, and I think I can only echo what others have already said, but you mentioned being a teenager, so maybe the smart plan is to try and stay under the radar, do well in school, get into a college that is at least in...
Long term tabletop fan here, too. I played the crap out of 3.5 and have enjoyed 4e so far, but haven't gotten to play as much as I'd like to have. Lately my group has been getting more into the "Indie" or Story games like Prime Time Adventures and FATE games (I was a playtester for the Dresden...
here is the US Department of State's official list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm for reference. While I don't necessarily agree with this decision, or with lumping all these groups in the same boat, some of them are at war with the US...
I like that he holds people to a higher standard of evidence then he holds himself to in his videos. i.e.
at the 5:20 second mark it shows that TfC claims that he got his figures for human population growth from "a friend of mine at the fitness club in my local area"
also: pinecones.