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As many people have pointed out in the past, water vapor is indeed a 'greenhouse gas' in that it strongly absorbs in many wavelengths that are emitted by the Earth. Some people go further to claim that because water vapor absorbs more strongly than CO2, models based on CO2 and other greenhouse...

In the OT forum, some of us have been throwing around an idea for a sort of Origins Theology book club. I suspect the reason there's few YECs who have responded is that the title started as "Sub forum idea" so I wanted to see if anybody was interested here...

I just got an interesting email from the ASA newsletter that cited an article where researchers surveyed faculty of major universities investigating their religion. The article suggests that by far the strongest predictor of theism among scientific faculty is a theistic family (i.e. childhood...

I'm getting married on Saturday and I'd appreciate all your prayers! I'll be gone for a week or two but I'll be back (as much as my new wife allows) Anyway, as a mod I always struggled with this sort of post, but I hope it might be allowed here as this forum is where I spend most of my time.

I'm not trying to be rude or anything by posting this in a new thread. I'm curious myself and I simply think the question is good enough to warrant its own thread.

Somebody recently asked in another thread why humans no longer have fur if we evolved from a common ancestors with other apes. I thought I'd give a quick answer, though somebody suggested a new thread so here it is. Quite simple, we ARE covered with fur. Our entire bodies are covered with...

Has any creationist even attempted to rule out the possibility of Radon gas as the source for the halos that are usually attributed to Polonium? The creationist community seems not to have dropped the claim that Po halos indicate a young earth, but have they totally ignored the fact that...

Creationists have become rather notorious for using the term "evolution" to encompass a wide range of concepts in science, all of which conveniently have their own names (so we know what we're talking about when we use the term). Would it be possible to get a creationist definition of...

Here's a great video I found that demonstrates some of the limitations of science in a very down-to-earth way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEBobE9XZs

Somehow the existance sacred numbers in ancient near east cultures keeps getting overlooked whenever I mention it. Quite simply, people in the Assyrian, Egyptian and Hebrew cultures often chose a number not because it was 'counting-accurate' but because it had a deeper cultural significance...

From New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19325934.800-a-taste-for-milk-shows-evolution-in-action.html Note that the entire article is unavailable to non-subscribers. It actually doesn't go into a ton more detail, but cites Proceedings of the National Academy of...

note -- OT means "off topic" and we usually don't do that at CF (since OT threads get moved to better forums) but as it's an apology about my spelling it only makes sense here. In the past few weeks, my laptop has taken to (apparently) randomly pressing the left arrow as I type. I don't know...

I've always been bothered when people attempt to call me "Darwinist." First of all, what does it actually mean? If (as the name implies) it means I follow Darwin's initial hypotheses rather than the highly modified modern understanding of evolution I doubt if ANYBODY is a Darwinist. If it is...

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From today's Wall Street Journal (D6) there's a passing comment about relativism that is very interesting. One can certainly choose to believe whatever one likes, so what is the standard? Is your personal belief that a particular writing is given by God infallable? Wouldn't these Native...

I generally find this type of "goodbye" post annoying at best, and I won't be posting one elsewhere, but I figured that since I've been an active moderator in C&E for almost two years, I should let you all know where I've gone. Quite simply, I don't have time to continue moderating. I'm...

Except new threads I suppose. I just closed JohnR7's thread before I realized that responding posts are now impossible. So... um... have fun reading the archives I suppose. I'm sure this will be fixed by the second tuesday of next week. Carry on.

Ensure that a Formal Debate Invitation or Challenge is done first in the Non-Participant Commentary & Debate Invitations forum. Follow the Invitation Rules in that forum. Carrying out a Formal Debate 1) A new thread is started in the Formal Debates forum. 2) The first 2 posts in the thread...

I've always been a very rational and "scientific minded" person. I LOVE to explain things, and it's only recently in the last few years that I've toned down my constant arguing due to advancing maturity (though I still LOVE a debate, I recognize that most people don't). So naturally, as I grew...