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I feel the like new presence of the Flat Earthers to be mildly helpful in this discussion. I think it breaks the normal YEC claim on "plain reading" vs scientific conclusions.

I accept that, but I my impression of eleos1954's use of the concept of "time is an illusion" is about the existence of a "now" and any particular impression about the passing of time being subjective.

If time is an illusion then the events that time separates into the flow we subjectively experience are still there. Evidence demonstrates the evolution of life and the geological development of the Earth... it doesn't matter if you call the period 4 billion years, 6 thousand years, or the...

No, desperately grabbing provisions and tossing them into life boats so the survivors have a better chance.

I am genuinely worried about the long term consequences, absolutely I'll raise my hand for that. But that doesn't mean I foresee imminent danger to my self or my community... this is going to be a serious long term problem that will lead to massive damage to human agriculture and the general...

Okay, technically you're right... but given that the last starts would have sputtered out in only 10^15 years I don't think the black hole popping is an imminent danger.

No one with any knowledge is describing it as a threat to us. It's just a collapsed star, it can no longer twinkle prettily, but as an advantage it can't explode either. Apophis and AGW are both very real and measurable physical phenomena. We shouldn't currently be worried about Apophis, but...

It's different to homosexuality because those terms apply to different things. Someone's status as transgender doesn't define what gender they are sexually attracted to. For example it's not uncommon for someone who was assigned male at birth, but identifies as a transgender woman but is still...

I wasn't discussion the details of acceptance rates... but I did present an example of a physical trait that was previously strongly discouraged then not and the perceived number increased. As I said, it was an analogous example. Why would you expect there to be 100 years of data of acceptance...

Except male and female are designations with varied and complex exceptions. The vast majority of humanity are one of two: 1) Man, small gametes, XY chromosomes 2) Woman, large gametes, XX chromosomes However those are not actually exhaustive in descriptions of humanity. Aside from transgender...

Not reasonable. I think the accusation of it being likened to a contagion would require some form of evidence. An example of an analogous phenomenon.

Allowed to be open about it and allowed to be acknowledged as a possibility.

It's not very common, it's just much more visible in our interconnected society... but an easy explanation is that it's not getting people immediately locked up or killed for indecency or sodomy.

It's based on detailed long term studies on patients and their reactions to therapy, as well as social, medical and surgical treatments, Just like many other medical treatments it's impossible to treat the condition without the subjective input of the patient. There are a multitude of...

Dinosaurs are descended from egg laying reptiles who are descended from base amniotes, the egg laying ancestors of both mammals and reptiles. If you look you can see that other vertibrates, fish and amphibians also lay eggs, but not the hardened variety of egg laying amniotes. This is the...

In the mathematical sense, no scientific theory is ever proven. But in the common use, of "demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt" then evolution has absolutely already been proven. Unless you can demonstrate the barrier to variation, then we have no reason to assume this to be true. The owl...

The point is that the function of proteins depends on their environment and that mutations of the DNA that generates can change the proteins... to potentially increase or decrease the effectiveness of the system they are a part of. As for an example, well DNA is a perfect one... there is no...

Demonstrated by patterns of genetics and modelling. Evolution is just about statistical advantage over large populations and large times.

Organic chemistry and polymerisation are found naturally accross the universe. The codes found in DNA are simply chemical reactions of their make up. Random chaos can increase complexity of chemical structures... allowing for the development of the codes in question without any concious design.

No one I know if is proposing the path to life via bleach and rocks. The obvious path is via naturally occurring amino acids and other carbon based structures that can poliminerise and even form self perpetuating molecules without the intervention of life. The proposal that life could from...