danielsangeo

I think the big problem is that there are just so many religions and so many denominations in each religion, you'd need to major in it in college to scratch the tip of the iceberg (I think I mixed my metaphors). And, it definitely should not be taught as science until one of the religions can meet the basic requirements to be considered "science".

A-he-he-hem.... Do you know what a "theory" is (in this context)?

The theory of evolution also says "why" we are the way we are, too.

The problem is: Evolution HAS been witnessed. And it's witnessed every day by every single person on the planet.

I apologize if I insulted you; it was not my intention. I was mainly elaborating if anyone didn't know. It's just how I do things. If I repeat something you already know, just ignore it because my intention is to clarify for anyone reading this that doesn't know what I or you are talking about. Easier to do it in thread than have someone stop what they're doing and research a word or topic. I talk in person or in private (one-on-one) differently than I talk in 'public'. It's just my way. Again, I apologize. This assumes that they would ever deploy the nukes. The best defense is a good offense. I'm not saying that we won't get our ass kicked, but it doesn't mean that will be destroyed either...and if you kick our ass, baby, you'd better be ready to meet any maker you might believe in! I would say to them "Try not to worry about it; we've got our best minds working around the clock to protect us from harm." This kind of stuff has been happening since the "caveman" days. And we're still here. As for pollution, we can stop it from happening. Right now. But certain ideological forces say that it would cost too much money and cost jobs. The technology is there (again) to stop the pollution that technology created....if only we'd use it.

I think you're watching too many Hollywood movies. Real life doesn't work that way. And, inherent in this, is MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction. Anyone that launches a nuke will be nuked back. Watch the movie WarGames (for a semi-realistic idea of MAD). This has to do with money, not technology. This has to do with ideology, not technology.

Um, methinks you got the wrong thread.

Because it is the foundation of 99.999999% of dates used in supporting Evolution. Now, where did you get that?

Thankfully, multiple dating methods are used. Some of the dating methods used: Argon-argon Helium Isochron Lead-lead Potassium-argon Rhenium-osmium Rubidium-strontium Samarium-neodymium Uranium-lead Uranium-thorium Uranium-uranium There are more, but that should give you a pretty good idea. All these radiometric data agree.

I'm sure that, by the time we perfect it to that extent, we'll also be able to "get out of it", as it were.... like I said earlier, if they build a better mouse, we build a better mouse trap. Remember: Just because they advance doesn't mean that we won't.

I can't find this word at all. Might want to check the spelling.

Well, you could be a flavor of deist (one who believes in an intelligent being that created everything but is now totally "hands off"). Me, I don't know what 'created' the 'unstable ''thing'' that was the universe', but I do not believe that it was an intelligent force nor that it was necessarily 'created' at all.

I don't believe in deities. The very existence of everything from panentheism to pantheism to monotheism to polytheism to monism to deism to....whatever... just shows that we humans like to make shit up when we don't know something. Me, I say "I don't know". I'm not going to ascribe it to a deity though. I am an atheist. I do not believe in deities. I don't believe that the "driving force" of the universe is a deity. I do not believe that nature is a deity. I do NOT believe in deities! Good night!

Some Christians would beg to differ with you. Once again, you're positing an "intelligence" when you refer to God...a sentient "being" as it were. Christians state that "God made man in His own image". Therefore, God is necessarily human-shaped. I posit that the "driving force" is completely "unintelligent"....or, rather, LACKS intelligence. It isn't sentient and didn't create this universe for us. Monotheists (and polytheists) believe that there is a sentient "being" that created this universe for us, directing its creation for us.

Thanks! I am an agnostic atheist. And I'm in bed right now.... Laptops are the work of the devil!

But, really, at this point, calling my computer chair "god" doesn't mean I believe in "god" simply because I believe in my computer chair.

I like the mantra in the Bible (I'm allowed to do that!) which states that God put us in charge of the Earth to be "good stewards". I don't believe we've been "good stewards" lately....

"Why not" is, to me, not an answer to "Why". The word "God" has many different connotations to so many people from a bearded man in the sky to someone who tells you that you should eat your vegetables or what kind of clothes to wear...or whom you're allowed to marry. Wars have been fought over this deity. And most monotheists will tell you that God is not nature... that God is "beyond nature".

Actually, I feel the opposite. Call me a starry-eyed optimist but I believe that when they build a better mouse trap, we build a better mouse. And so on. ....not sure that analogy makes sense....I'm tired and should sleep.

Hold up a moment. Simply because something might be "natural" doesn't make it right. Look up the "is-ought problem" which is related to the naturalistic fallacy. Atheists don't murder because it's wrong.

Ah, well, that's different and very scary. But, I don't see a way to stop the technology. We just need to find a way to combat it.

Why call it "god"? What if the universe is just undergoing "Big Bounces" and the last "Big Crunch" made this universe? Are you suggesting a pantheistic deity?

Yes. Everything is natural, including us and our actions. However, nature has a history of doing away with dominant species... The last T-Rex I saw was a skeleton in a natural history museum.

Some things, I believe, are still relegated to science fiction....like laser swords or faster than light speed travel. Should we get to a point where these things exist, I believe culture and technology would also advance to a point where these things won't be as "scary" as they seem now. Think about it. Go back 150 years ago and tell someone that you can interact, in near real time, with people all over the globe and that major economies of the world rely on this system. They'd imagine horror stories about possibly bringing down entire countries' economies with the single push of a button. As you know, that's not likely to happen today because culture and technology has grown to a point to counteract those possibilities. As of right now, you can't turn a cell into an adult in a short timespan, much less a clone.

We don't have evidence of what started these quantum fluctuations, silly. The evidence is probably out there for us to find, but we haven't found it.....yet.