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    Idaho doesn't exist

    My father turned into a Idahoist late in life after seeing "My own private Idaho", even if the movie explicitly said it was a "work of fiction". My brother told me to just let it be, at least he seemed happy until the end.
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    Idaho doesn't exist

    Even the most hardcore Idaho proponents admit there was no Idaho 500 years ago, make up your minds geographyailures
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    Should people who don't/can't have children be allowed to marry?

    I tried to make sense of it and wrote a breakdown and tried to understand his thinking process but failed halfway through, maybe we're better off not knowing.
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    Theory(s) in the Natural Sciences

    I don't think a strict mathematical definition of correlation is very helpful in most cases (if any?) in the natural sciences Let's take Newtonian mechanics for example, according to 18th century measurements the R value for classical mechanics was certainly very close to 1, they just couldn't...
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    Human beings are animals?

    we share a common ancestor with the contemporary fish and we're both chordates, human embryos have pharyngeal slits (a kind of prototype gills) during one stage of their development social issues aside, eating your own species (or even close relatives like the primates) is dumb because of...
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    Test: if the matrix was tampering with evolution, would you know?

    It all depends on the properties of the Matrix if it works subtly and seemingly within previously established reality framework we probably wouldn't notice it unless we know where exactly to look for.
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    Air pollution - is it really all we have to worry about and not Global Warming

    sounds fantastic, maybe you should direct your powers of wishful thinking towards other issues too, like curing diseases or fighting crime
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    how did a planet as small as the earth capture such a large moon?

    you need sufficient gravity and preferably a magnetosphere to sustain an atmosphere, the moon is just too small for either fire doesn't destroy water, it just becomes a gas
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    Observed change in kinds.

    there's only one kind and it's carbon-based
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    And Man Created Dog

    I agree that is poorly formulated, it's more like the current dogs and current wolves share a common ancestral population. That is how evolution works, all descendants of canines will always be canines, just like all descendants of humans will always be chordates, mammals, and primates. Think...
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    Do scientists believe in unicorns?

    most scientists I know prefer to sacrifice unicorns of different alignment at their god's altar
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    Space and Time

    just taking the opportunity to post my favourite spacetime piece http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/dimensions.pdf I feel like science fiction hasn't really explored the theoretically stable and mathematically equivalent universe with 3 time dimensions and 1 spatial dimension, where the speed of...
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    26% in U.S. do not know Earth goes around the Sun

    some people are trolling, some just can't be bothered and answer randomly, besides sun going around the earth is an easily observable fact, it just depends on your reference frame
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    The Universe Caterpillar

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    The Universe Caterpillar

    It fits very well, it's called the "Cyclic model" of cosmology. We don't know enough about dark energy or the shape of the universe to know if that's the correct model though, I think expanding universe models are more favored currently. You also spoiled the ending of the manga "Fourteen"
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