14 Nov 13
Originally posted by sonhouseIt must be your vivid imagination that has determined that my mind is deluded and think there are no impact craters on earth. I don't recall saying such a thing, so perhaps your mind is the one that is deluded.
So in your deluded mind, there are no impact craters on Earth?
The Instructor
14 Nov 13
Originally posted by sonhouseYou didn't get the part where I said for the continuance of the human race and maybe its biosphere too?
You didn't get the part where I said for the continuance of the human race and maybe its biosphere too? On another planet. Of course all that is science fiction right now but in 300 years, assuming we survive the next 300 years as a scientific civilization, it will probably be another story, with colonies on several nearby stars. Just getting 10 or 20 ly aw ...[text shortened]... oles though. But that is the general idea to keep mankind going no matter what happens to Earth.
No, I got that.
I guess I'm getting a tad esoteric.
The underlying point, or question is, what makes you think saving the human race--- among all the life on the planet--- is an advantage, evolutionary-speaking?
For that matter, if there is nothing special about man
which evolutionary thought sans-special creation necessarily demands
then certainly nothing about earth or the rest of the life here is all that compelling.
Why not welcome the meteor?
15 Nov 13
Originally posted by FreakyKBHAnother win for the Intelligent Design crowd!
Swing and a miss.
The article you cite is another one of the straw-graspings we've seen time after time: the supposed definitive proof of randomly-inspired biogenesis. Hogwash.
In these experiments, one of the controls is always the experimenter--- in this case, the chemists. For this particular set-up (get it? nothing random about a set-up, ...[text shortened]... egardless of the fact that it does nothing more than solidify the shakiness of the whole idea...
Kelly
15 Nov 13
Originally posted by sonhouse"...since it is obvious to anyone with half a brain the Earth is WAY older than that."
Not weird. For one thing, you forget about human curiosity, how does it work, what is it made of, how long has it been here?
Another thing, you say 'for atheists', as if only atheists would be interested in evolution. You probably already know the Pope endorsed evolution so there are plenty of theists out there who buy into evolution. They also don't ta ...[text shortened]... her a theist or atheist to have curiosity. That is a big part of what separates us from animals.
You should start using your full brain, you may see the truth! 🙂
Kelly
15 Nov 13
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Originally posted by RJHindsOh maven, please educate me, in what way am I full of shyte? The part where we have a chance at one up on the dinosaurs by being able to deflect an incoming asteroid that can do us in? Is that using too much imagination?
You are just so full of shyte.
The Instructor
Or perhaps the part where I said the Yucatan impact left a crater, now mostly buried underwater and on land, 180 miles wide? You don't think that happened?
15 Nov 13
Originally posted by sonhouse
Oh maven, please educate me, in what way am I full of shyte? The part where we have a chance at one up on the dinosaurs by being able to deflect an incoming asteroid that can do us in? Is that using too much imagination?
Or perhaps the part where I said the Yucatan impact left a crater, now mostly buried underwater and on land, 180 miles wide? You don't think that happened?
The Instructor
15 Nov 13
Originally posted by RJHindsSo, yet again the same SNL video. Your mind has really slipped out of reality this time. Presented with evidence of a violent asteroid hit in the Yucatan, you post a video that suggests you could care less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9Yn5mgrjY
The Instructor
15 Nov 13
Originally posted by sonhouseI care about the real world, not hypothetical imaginary atheist evilutionary nonsense.
So, yet again the same SNL video. Your mind has really slipped out of reality this time. Presented with evidence of a violent asteroid hit in the Yucatan, you post a video that suggests you could care less.
The Instructor