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I posted a video of a team of amateurs building a rocket and filming the earth where the curvature can be clearly seen. This means you can potentially build it yourself and see for yourself. I won't waste any more time on this until you tell me your position on this.

I know what you mean. Once you've seen this sort of thing it's kind of hard for it to be unseen. I'm supposed to be rational and here I am experiencing something strange that seems more real than real.

I agree with you. I don't think that that was what the article was talking about though. If Creationism is taught as fact in publicly funded schools then there is definitely a problem in my mind.

Of course this is a good idea because Creationism is not science and is demonstrably false. For instance, if one were curious to look at some graphs about C14 dating methods correlating with calendar years, it should prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the earth is at least older than 6000...

There used to be a society in the 19th century called the "universal zetetic society". Founded by a man named Samuel Rowbotham, the principle of the society was to disbelieve in "conventional knowledge" and to believe in what they thought was observed only (the earth looks flat so it can't be...

I have read all of the above. So far Langan's solution answers the most questions for me. In Krauss' "universe from nothing" he doesn't attempt to find a solution to the problem of where the laws of physics come from. In my opinion, that's a big metaphysical mistake.

This thread has been a fascinating read for me. OP is obviously a lot more knowledgeable on the subject than I am. I used to be satisfied with multi-verse anthropic arguments but I find myself more and more dissatisfied with these arguments because they seem like a bit of a cop-out and so I...

It's strange to me. I have been gone for so long. dad and av are still here and have always been arguing the same things as when I left. Incredible.

Thanks. I'll be around. I forgot how entertaining these boards could be. It's just the right mix of really knowledgeable people and few ultra-dedicated creationists.

if you're going to claim that everything was different in the past and that things will be different in the future, you'll be right in your own mind. But my question to you is: what do you think is more consistent of an objective view of the evidence? You notice that if radio-isotopes had...

I'm going to bring this thread back from the grave because I had just realized TODAY (August 20, 2014) that this thread was written about me 7 years ago and it's kind of overwhelming to me that I haven't noticed it in all of this time. I find this thread fascinating in some ways. It brings back...

There will definitely be business cycles but they will not be as devastating as when government "regulates" and / or destroys the natural order of the free market. As humans, we have long ago gotten over the need to evolve for specific survival purposes. In the same way, this is the best system...

The mechanisms for biological evolution are almost analogous to those of the market. My question is, why is it that so many people, intellectuals even, fail to understand the basic concept of the invisible hand? YouTube - Skeptic Michael Shermer on Atheism, Happiness, and the Free Market

The fact that I observe something changes the location of the particles. If I understand you correctly you are saying that anything will change the position of the particles and that this isn't that much of a concern. I would like to know what this could mean about observable reality? Does this...

I don't think that solipsism is correct. For solipsism to be true you would have to have knowledge of what exterior forces are going to do to you. Since there are unknowns outside of your perception, I would say that it's more likely that you aren't the only conscious agent. With that being...

Very interesting. I've got to get around to reading Kant.

I've wanted to explore some of the conclusions arrived by the findings of quantum theory. It is said that quantum particles behave differently by the act of observing them. Can I conclude that the universe as we observe it doesn't actually exist? Or that consciousness creates "reality"? What are...

Would it be a big accomplishment for you to reach your next million? What do you hope to achieve by doing this?

It's hard for me to fathom how someone can possibly do this. Here are AV1611VET's stats. Total Posts: 1,230,558 Posts Per Day: 847.90 847.90 posts per day!? That would mean 35 posts per hour, about 1 post every 2 minutes for the past 4 years! AV1611VET must be on here all of the time. How...