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Recent content by Siliconaut

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    Is there anyone willing to take a stand for what is good, right, proper and true?

    If decency includes John not deliberately posting meaningless threads in the wrong forums, I'm all for it.
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    Alien life???

    @Michali: Patient and gentle? I'm sorry to say that your atheist friend has misunderstood the concept of natural selection - it is far from gentle, and definitely not patient with those lacking the facility for adaption. As for "killing off the buggers stupid enough to permeate new ecological...
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    Alien life???

    @Michali: You have repeated several mistakes: Mutations are common, and while mutations are quite random, natural selection definitely isn't. Evolution is a process guided by environmental pressure, thus actively molding species to fit better into their environmental niche, or to invade new...
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    Coincidences?

    The surprise continues.
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    Alien life???

    @Hank: There is only one problem with your reasoning: "Life lives everywhere it can. Where life can't, this takes a little longer." (source unknown to me, might be Sagan) We weren't designed for the current environment earth offers, but adapted to it. Like the puddle, we got to fit our...
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    Coincidences?

    Yep, and for most, you don't even need a shovel, so that evasion won't work. :)
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    Alien life???

    My scope? No god is responsible, and chances of life existing elsewhere amongst the phantastillions of planets in our universe are high, to say the least. Do they visit us? I highly doubt it. There is not only a physical gap between us and hypothetic alien civs, but also a temporal one: Are...
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    Could an enormous volcanic eruption have killed the dinosaurs?

    ... and Jesus wasn't exactly famous for taking the OT literally, was he? :) @kimrari: Well, it isn't infallible in a literal reading. The only way to get the infallible part is by heavily interpreting whatever flies in the face of facts in a literal sense. Do rabbits chew their cud? Is the...
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    Coincidences?

    That theory has a lot going for it: How often do policemen hear "well, I honked at it, but that tree just jumped in front of my car out of nowhere!"... ;)
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    Coincidences?

    Tsk, tsk! It's in the phone book! Right next to my real name! ;) Yep, even though they come up with funny ideas like "sorting by density" and other ad-hoc-hypotheses, which are easily shown to be fallacious but continue to be used in the never-ending quest to impress simple country folk. :/
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    An interesting discussion between Creationists

    @Vance: Thanks for that link - it's really amusing to see that Hovind tries to cheat *everyone* using the same tactics. He misrepresents AIG's points (he doesn't directly quote them, but only posts short excerpts, quite often completely incongruent with AIG's argumentations), ignores evidence...
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    Coincidences?

    @Fruminous: What the heck?! And you didn't call me so we could meet and reminisce of the good old times? *grinds teeth in frustration* "See that trilobite? Fierce creatures, they'd jump you and gnaw your arm off. My grand-grand-grand...-grandfather used to make a living off hunting them for...
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    Men on the moon?

    @Meatros: I have no idea why someone would choose green. Slightly yellow I could live with (under the right atmospheric conditions), but green? *scratches head* @Techbot: Even worse. They didn't let the NASA speaker give relevant debunkings, but just let him say something along the lines of...
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    Men on the moon?

    I did, too. I even had a starring role... :D
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    Men on the moon?

    What really cracks me up, though, is the disclaimer, in which the show exhorts the viewer to make up his own mind based on the information presented - as if that were remotely likely, given the obvious slant towards conspiracy theorists...
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