Creationist have problems with evolution because evolution makes sense.

[Jester4kicks]

What other questions? If you have a question --- ask it.

Notice: A question --- not a whole slew of copy/paste questions from somewhere else.

But I'll warn you before I even answer --- if you can't get past Genesis 1 --- you're in for a ride --- because it gets even harder from there.

So fire away.

Please show me where I have ever copy/pasted a question into this thread. Heck, show me where I've ever copy/pasted a question EVER on this forum.

To repeat my question... you posted a picture that seemed to indicate there were four corners on the earth. Where are they?

 

[AV1611VET]

Please show me where I have ever copy/pasted a question into this thread. Heck, show me where I've ever copy/pasted a question EVER on this forum.

To repeat my question... you posted a picture that seemed to indicate there were four corners on the earth. Where are they?

That picture I posted was to show you that "four corners of the earth" is indeed an acceptable literary term.

 

[atomweaver]

Just FYI, this island is a major communications hub. In 1973, it housed the U.S. Navy's Communications Area Master Station (NAVCAMS), a Top Secret facility that I worked in, and a major node on what was then called the AUTODIN Network. In addition, when North Vietnam descended on South Vietnam, and they started evacuations, Guam was a major stop-over for the Vietnamese fleeing their country - (even though later they wanted to go back). Guam also was the site of several top-secret communications tests that I won't even get into here. Soviet [or any] submarines can't get near the western coast of the U.S. without being detected, and if it wasn't for this island, many Chamorro would be whistling I LEFT MY HEART IN TOKYO.

I love the sign at the airport: GUAM - WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS.

It is the first U.S. possession that the sun rises on.

Hafa Adai, my friend.

Hafa Adai... I have to ask because I cannot recall, are you Chamurro, or interloper?

Since the start of the 80's, Guam's strategic value has been vastly outpaced by its cost. Your top-secret comm base could/should/ought to be supplanted by a single spy satellite in orbit, if it hasn't been already... It was worth it back in your day, when the Pac Rim was the hot spot of geopolitical matters, but that spot has shifted westward in the past three decades.
Guam still gets huge annual transfer payments from the Federal Treasury (CIA Factbook lists $143 million in 1997; more than five times the $$$ you're crabbing about SETI getting in its lifetime, and that's just in one year!!), and yet its citizens pay no income or excise taxes to the US; the Guam Treasury gets that money for itself, too.
I mean, there's pork;

and then there's PORK!!!

You gripe about scientists taking federal funds, when you oughtta be looking at subsidy programs like the ones your little island enjoys, before you start to cast stones...

 

[Jester4kicks]

That picture I posted was to show you that "four corners of the earth" is indeed an acceptable literary term.

Ok, then please show me. Where in that picture are the "four corners of the earth"?

 

[AV1611VET]

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[Danyc]

If it was fact and not theory, it would be called Darwin's Facts of Evolution.

Gold!!!




Oh man, that's good

Somebody sig this

 

[SiderealExalt]

You have to admit. Prime Grade A ignorance like that does deserve at least somewhat to be immortalized.

 

[AV1611VET]

If it was fact and not theory, it would be called Darwin's Facts of Evolution.

Gold!!!

Oh man, that's good

Somebody sig this

You have to admit. Prime Grade A ignorance like that does deserve at least somewhat to be immortalized.

You done it now, bro!

They'll love you forever for this one.

(I just wish I would have thought of it.)

 

[AV1611VET]

You have to admit. Prime Grade A ignorance like that does deserve at least somewhat to be immortalized.

I hate to sound stupid --- but what's wrong with it?

 

[Chalnoth]

I hate to sound stupid --- but what's wrong with it?

Theories are not promoted to facts. Theories and facts are two different sorts of thing.

 

[Jester4kicks]

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Still waiting for an answer....

 

[AV1611VET]

Theories are not promoted to facts. Theories and facts are two different sorts of thing.

Then why don't they call it the Law of Evolution, or something?

(I just plain call it "wrong", myself.)

I get tired of hearing: Gravity, the Theory of Gravity, the Law of Gravity --- if there's a difference --- make up your minds then.

 

[Danyc]

The minds have already been made up; the theory of gravity and the law of gravity and just gravity are 3 different things. You should know this by now.

 

[AV1611VET]

Still waiting for an answer....

Sorry --- that train left the station awhile ago.

 

[AV1611VET]

The minds have already been made up; the theory of gravity and the law of gravity and just gravity are 3 different things. You should know this by now.

Gravity = Gm[sub]1[/sub]m[sub]2[/sub]/r[sup]2[/sup] --- that's about all I know.

Stuff falls at 32 fps[sup]2[/sup] --- or 22 mph[sup]2[/sup] --- until it attains terminal velocity --- or something like that.

 

[tanzanos]

Gravity = Gm[sub]1[/sub]m[sub]2[/sub]/r[sup]2[/sup] --- that's about all I know.

Stuff falls at 32 fps[sup]2[/sup] --- or 22 mph[sup]2[/sup] --- until it attains terminal velocity --- or something like that.

You can cut and paste all you want. Just because you can see the stars, does not qualify you to be an astronomer.

 

[Jester4kicks]

Sorry --- that train left the station awhile ago.

I see. Could to know that when you can't answer a simple question about something you've posted... you just ignore it.

So let's move on and see what other topics I can get you to give up...

Gravity: the force of attraction between all masses in the universe

Gravitational Theory: The field of study surrounding the role of gravity in other fields such as Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Newton's Law of universal gravitation:

Every point mass attracts every other point mass by a force pointing along the line intersecting both points. The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point masses:

where:

• F is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the two point masses,
• G is the gravitational constant,
• m1 is the mass of the first point mass,
• m2 is the mass of the second point mass,
• r is the distance between the two point masses.

Was that so hard? ​

 

[Jester4kicks]

Stuff falls at 32 fps[sup]2[/sup] --- or 22 mph[sup]2[/sup] --- until it attains terminal velocity --- or something like that.

To be more accurate, "stuff" accelerates at a rate of 9.8m/s^2 when in free-fall on Earth.

 

[Chalnoth]

Then why don't they call it the Law of Evolution, or something?

Because Law also generally refers to a different sort of thing. While a law and theory are very similar, typically the word "law" is tacked on to explanations that are very short, often a single sentence or equation, while the word "theory" is tacked on to those that are more involved.

For example, Newton's law of gravity is extremely simple:

All objects are attracted to one another's center of mass with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Or, equivalently:

F = -Gm1m2/r^2

Einstein's theory of gravity (dubbed General Relativity) takes quite a bit more work to explain, which is why it's called a theory.

But in general the difference between "Law" and "Theory" is so thin that it doesn't actually matter. The biggest thing that determines whether something is called one or the other is history.

 

[AV1611VET]

Because Law also generally refers to a different sort of thing. While a law and theory are very similar, typically the word "law" is tacked on to explanations that are very short, often a single sentence or equation, while the word "theory" is tacked on to those that are more involved.

For example, Newton's law of gravity is extremely simple:

All objects are attracted to one another's center of mass with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Or, equivalently:

F = -Gm1m2/r^2

Einstein's theory of gravity (dubbed General Relativity) takes quite a bit more work to explain, which is why it's called a theory.

But in general the difference between "Law" and "Theory" is so thin that it doesn't actually matter. The biggest thing that determines whether something is called one or the other is history.

Okay --- thank you.