Recent content by sonickid01

The central tenet of creationism is that evolution is false. I'm not sure how you're rationalizing this unless by creationism you mean something other than the fundamentalist Christian attempt at explaining the origins of life that has come up in the last 50-60 years.

There are not just 3 stages between dinosaurs and birds; in fact the distinction is rather blurred, and where we draw the line between the forms appears to be rather indistinct. There were feathered dinosaurs and there were raptor-like birds that look very similar. You're severely misinformed or...

Are you kidding? The platypus has venom it its claws, its design is brilliant.

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...Confirmation bias is a bias. A weaker confirmation bias makes you more objective and more likely to take a neutral, balanced view of things. ...have I missed j-squared's point here or something?

You're retroactively defining things in order to prove the validity of your argument and terminology; it's almost like amending your definitions for your own convenience in an argument. There's something fishy to me about this; anyone else? My point is that it's not fair to imply that unless...

Hey it's this thread again. And we've diverted from the OP topic within 3 pages I guess, but what was I expecting? You've asked people to reason out their beliefs while working under the idea that they cannot understand their deity. What this effectively does if I engage in this kind of...

le upvote upvote upvote I never eat Chick-fil-a. I tried it once, it was horrible. I don't know if it was just that particular restaurant that was bad or if the entire chain is crap but I don't really care. On top of that, a friend who used to work there actively discouraged me from ever trying...

I really liked Robin in this story. Also I predicted his identity partway into the film, just a bit before Batman tells him he should wear a mask (which was the biggest tipoff). I was not disappointed.

I took AP Psychology this year. I don't even know if my school had a psychology course. I was told that AP Psych is the easiest AP test of all the tests, though, so I thought "what the hell, I'll go for it." I came to the free response portion of the test and literally just made up vocabulary...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg/800px-CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Universe_expansion2.png http://williambrownscienceoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/history-universe-08.jpg Are any...

Ah, that's pretty cool too; I like that explanation better. Today I learned something then! Just go to Wikipedia and skim through whatever you can understand and hop around pages; you learn a lot of fascinating stuff and kind of piece things together while skirting around the math that's too...

I have the book (had it since 8th grade). That's the story he says; whether that was a tongue-in-cheek remark to take out religious connotation or whether the term "God particle" had some semi-philosophical significance that he doesn't want to mention, I'm not sure. He goes on to say that it...

Probably never in my opinion, but maybe I'm just a pessimist. The light-speed barrier really is a barrier; as you start moving faster, it becomes harder to get faster, a kind of asymptote. The universe is, in a way, really not a fan of things going faster than light as far as we know, and it...

I'm not a proper PhD, so I don't know the specifics, but from the way the researchers described their findings in the press conference, it seemed like they had a bit more information on the particle than just the mass, although not a lot of information. I'm not sure what the specifics of other...