this is such a pathetic,ignorant attempt to knock science…Gravity is infinite in range,you fool. You cannot cancel out the gravitational fields generated by the sun,the earth,your own body. You may be able to temporarily overcome the effects of gravity,but its constant and cannot be circumnavigated. thats why perpetual motion machines wont work on earth…gravity always is victorious…faster-than-light-speed is impossible due to E=mc2…theorectically,you can go 99.999% the SOL but not faster…it would take an infinite amount of energy and we dont have that much --duh…ignorant people like you need to read more…that means entire books-not just snippets from some AP news story…no wonder everyone thinks Americans are so dumb… :roll:
Posts made by The Hydra
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RE: So the theory of gravity is bunk?
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RE: Axis & Allies Guadalcanal
another lame game to add to the list of cruddy knock-offs… :|
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RE: Rolling Dice and the Providence of God
You can believe whatever makes you feel nice and cozy. Thats what religion is for. To hide your head in the sand while the world goes about its way with all of the violence and suffering and death that is involved. I dont care about what a religious persons version of the world is. If people want to live in a cartoon Universe where anything is possible,so be it. But when you start to enact local,state and federal laws based on biblical nonsense or have national policy based on armegeddon and the “end times”,thats when I will confront the religious nuts head on. People have been saying the end of the world is right around the corner for two thousand years and yet here we are. Question: Does anyone here remember 500 years ago? Answer: No because you were dead.
          Its odd that no-one has mentioned my criticism of Genesis. But I know why. No-one can rationally explain all the fantastic lapses in logic concerning it. I am always amazed how frightened people are to question the beliefs they were taught as children. As we mature,we eventually let go of Santa,tooth fairies, the boogey man. But we cling to these afterlife things and are afraid to let go of them. Its completely understandable,though. It takes a strong person to accept the fact that life is random and this mortal life is all that there is. Any wimp can say " I believe!! I believe despite what is in front of my eyes!!". Faith is a weakness of the human mind. What is the difference,really, if a scientist says " You are just an ape that evolved from slime over billions of years " or a christian preacher saying “You are just dirt that sins.” They are both quite depressing,except we have massive evidence for one (evolution)and scant,pathetic,mostly written evidence for the other.Christians now-a-days should really take history lessons about the church because there is a lot they can learn. They seem to think that the church just tolled bells,had mass and everyone was happy for the last two millenia. Actually,they were involved in some of the most heinous crimes in histroy,including the Holocaust,slavery and stealing money and labor from the poor to build their eyesores.Â
                       I would be a believer if there was the evidence for it. If there were THE BIBLE,the one-and-only unaltered BIBLE,where I could go and look at it,kind of like the Declaration of Independence and say to myself " This is THE BIBLE,the ORIGINAL BIBLE,completely written in its scribble-dot-dash format (not English of course) yet there it is. It cannot be burned or pages torn out because this is THE BIBLE,the LITERAL WORD OF GOD and cannot be destroyed or altered ,no matter what a mortal does to it. Is there such a thing? No. The Bible,especially the New Testament,was written over hundreds of years,edited,diluted,re-copied in error by monks,so it is just a plain old book. Nothing special. -
RE: Rolling Dice and the Providence of God
Dont “trust” me,trust your senses. Do you see God? No. Do you see things ( animals,sunsets,lightning that strikes and kills people) in nature ? Yes. Thats real. Why should I believe fables told by ignorant sheep herders from three thousand years ago? They were utterly,literally dumb about how nature works. A seven year old child today knows more about the world than all of these story tellers combined. Do you think they could explain what caused the wind to blow? No.They would says angels did it or God was blowing the air from his huge,mighty,invisible lungs. Most humans just dont want to let go of their fear that life is random and meaningless and its all about sex and death really. If mankind is the ultimate achievement of God,what a sad showing for God. First he makes angels and then one of them rebels. He then makes people and they eat an apple he told them not to eat. He makes a devil that has powers just like himself. Instead of just making Lucifer non-existent after having a war :-o in heaven of all places,he lets him traipse around in his Paradise. This is one confused creator who cant seem to get it right. Its such a fairy tale that it is actually funny
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RE: Rolling Dice and the Providence of God
“That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the ends they were achieving; that his origin,his growth,his hopes and fears,his loves and his beliefs,are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire,no heroism,no intensity of thought and feeling,can preserve individual life beyond the grave;that all the labors of the ages,all the devotion,all the inspiration,all the noonday brightness of human genius,are destined to extinction in the vast heat death of the Solar System,and that the whole temple of Mans achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a Universe in ruins–all these things,if not quite beyond dispute,are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths,only on the firm foundation of unyielding dispair,can the souls habitation henceforth be safely built.” Bertrand Russell---- the greatest philosopher of all time.
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RE: Rolling Dice and the Providence of God
If this biologist ( I cant remember his name but I saw him promoting his book about faith and science on BookTV) is so smart,why doesnt he see the paradox of ID? Because of his “faith”,thats why. He knows that ID contradicts itself,so he goes the “faith” route and throws logic into the wind. I have no respect for that.
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RE: Rolling Dice and the Providence of God
So God was directing the bullets and shells that either killed,maimed or missed someone? :roll: Controlled Universe? Supernovae,Black Holes,Quasars–-thats some control! The Providence Factor is the dumbest thing I have heard since Intelligent Design… Go read a science book and learn the truth…
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RE: Kramer loses his cool
So Kramer thought the dude in the audience was a :mrgreen:?..I forgive him. He doesnt seem to have the “white guilt” that so many of the PC types carry on their shoulders…I say call a spade a spade :-P
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RE: American Nobels
I dont know all of the details because I just scan the headlines but nevertheless, I am proud that we took some Nobels,thus dismissing the idea of “dumb Americans”.
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American Nobels
looks like the US is taking home the Nobels in boatloads :-P…physics,chemistry,medicine and economics :mrgreen: congrats to all of the winners so far… Go US science!!
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RE: An Exciting Find for Science (and Paleontologists)
I havent heard anything about modern human footprints being found in million-year-old rock but let me guess at who found it, okay? Was it a “creation-scientist”? Or someone funded by the Discovery Institute or some other religiously-based “think tank”? Probably :roll: Also,if evolution is a religion,then I am a devout believer!!  Darwin is the Son of God!!! Hallelujah!! Lets give him praise!! Thank you Darwin for saving me from the intellectual hell that is America!!
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RE: An Exciting Find for Science (and Paleontologists)
@ncscswitch:
Just another false clue for the unbeliever :-P
Or, perhaps THIS spin…
All those scientists aid taht soft tissue could NEVER survive tens of millions of years. The fact taht tey found Dinosaur soft tissue is PROOF that the scientists were wrong, and that dinosaurs are from only thousands of eyars ago not tens of millions.
(how is that for Devil’s Advocate?  :evil:
          Ah but the _rocks_ that the fossils are found in are millions of years old,so we are still safe from the creation myth
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RE: Please help with english problem
hokey crap one of the lamest songs of all time some dingbat begging for God to save her from her mental torment borrrring
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RE: An Exciting Find for Science (and Paleontologists)
Very very interesting…Its kind of neat for me to look at my cockatiel and see a direct descendent of the dinosaurs!
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RE: Worst invention in man's history (and why)
The second worst invention is religion
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RE: Worst invention in man's history (and why)
I know that only in hindsight does an invention show its benefits or faults,but it has to be guns–from handguns to the largest artillery pieces…The destruction they have caused is literally incalculable and dwarfs any benefit they have given humans. I bet for every animal shot for food with a gun,there have been five times as many people destroyed by guns during wars and in the commission of crimes. Atomic weapons are pretty bad too,but we have only used them twice,so I guess we will have to wait until after a few dozen cities are eradicated before we can say they are the worst invention. All we have to do is just wait.
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RE: Worst invention in man's history (and why)
I dont think I seen any of you idiots say guns are the worst invention. As for why guns are,thats apparent enough. Now…I will wait for Jennifer to chime in and say some dumb thing about guns and how they were beneficial to us and the world and blah,blah,blah…
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RE: How could Germany have won the war?
This is all just regurgitated bits and pieces from history books. How many of you have went to Russian or German or any Allied archives,or interviewed people who were actually there,to come up with your conclusions? :roll: Quit posting “if-this-would-have-happened,then-that-could-have-happened”. 99 percent of the posts on this subject are plagiaristic in one form or another,especially Imperious Leaders drivel.