Recent content by Standing_Ultraviolet

I mean, it's not like all archaeology in the region suddenly stopped. It's just that serious institutions no longer put effort into trying to find evidence of the Exodus and related events because, if it were there, we would have found it a long time ago. These aren't small or subtle things...

"Modern coelacanths are the same as the coelacanths found in the fossil record" only in the sense that they're members of the same order. That's an incredibly broad grouping of living things, and saying that they're the same is equivalent to saying that there's no difference between a Sweet...

Most attempts to find evidence for events from the Pentateuch and Joshua are pretty old now. They were made during the dawn of modern archaeology, when there wasn't any particular reason to doubt that the events depicted had happened (in some way, if not necessarily literally). It's only after...

Dark matter is really just a placeholder term describing whatever is the cause behind some observed phenomena, like galaxies that have more mass than they should based just on the amount of regularly matter that they contain. Observations outside of the lab are an important part of science...

Without some bronze-age bilge pumps, I can tell you exactly how that would have ended.

Which is not what it claims to be. It claims to be an interpretation of a vessel that actually existed, set up to be entertaining and educational for children and adults. That's the problem. No one would care if someone decided to set up a licensed attraction using the arks from the movie...

I'm not even sure that I should open this can of worms, but what's with the fixation that you seem to have with connecting dark matter and atheism? The two have literally nothing to do with each other. Whether you believe that the universe has no creator, was designed by a benevolent god, is...

I have read and agreed. I would very much like to be a part of this forum.

I'm not really sure that I agree with the idea that a species would have to become benevolent in the way that you seem to mean to survive long term. There's a minimum level of cooperation that they would have to reach with other members of their species to keep going after industrialization...

I guess it depends on your definition of the word animal. If you mean the word in the sense that we do when we talk about animals in biology, then we all treat our spouses (and other loved ones and assorted family members) like animals, because it would be really strange if we decided to treat...

There are "no numbers to prove" that you're a real human being on the other side of this Internet connection, and not just a very advanced learning robot undergoing a long training session to pass the Turing test. Based off of experience and common sense, though, I'm able to figure out that...

Simple answer? All of the economic systems that have existed since the dawn of agricultural society have relied on some people being kept in poverty. Currently, some regions have cheap labor as their primary economic strength (especially in the developing world, but also in the U.S.). Some...

Does the truth always have to be comfortable? Not all problems have easy or convenient solutions. Some people do escape the cycle of poverty (myself and the previously mentioned cousin included), but it's very difficult and likely to be impossible for many people. Solving the problem of poverty...

Honestly, that article's not the greatest on scientific information in general. Dinosaurs weren't lizards, not all dinosaurs were large (most of them wouldn't be astoundingly huge if they existed in the modern world), and birds aren't a cousin to dinosaurs like I feel the article is suggesting...

People get stuck in impoverished areas because they can't easily leave, not because they want to sit around and "play their banjo". To leave, you first have to find the money to get an apartment or house somewhere else. Then, you have to quit a job that might be one of the few stable ones in...