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Goody, Olber's Paradox. I think perhaps the best way around this is saying "when" instead of "if" for determining if a star lies in one's line of sight. Take the numbers with a grain of salt if you wish, but IIRC the average distance to a star in any given direction would be something like...

I will metamorphose into a giant butterfly tomorrow. Don't laugh at me... I think the issue with the Second Coming is that it would be based on God's timetable, not ours. You have no more reason to think that it's in your lifetime than the people of the last twenty centuries.

Hmm. Not sure exactly what you're trying to say, there. It would make sense that genetic diseases that crop up every once in awhile would no longer be eliminated, as we inhibit natural selection by keeping alive people who would otherwise die. Ten thousand years ago someone with my eyes...

Something tells me that this debate is about as useful as trying to convert the Pope to Satanism. It's very hard to "win" debates that involve personal religious beliefs. There's something about believing that God has given you Absolute Truth (tm) that makes minds like steel traps - closed and...

I find it very interesting that the people who constantly claim that God's ways are so much higher than ours promptly dismiss evolution from personal incredulity...

Interesting. What makes you think the rate is .5%? Starting with 8 people, 5,000 years ago, we should have 67 billion people right now. I would think that a population of protohumans would remain fairly stable over long period of time, subject to the same rules as other species. Too few and...

Well that's enough of your fiction for now. Care to tell me about things that actually happened?

(Let's just ignore actually having a chat with Him, and assume that He exists for a moment here.) 1) Looking at everything which He created, learning about it, seeing how incredible it is, and how well God can design a universe that *works*, finding out *how* it works, how any particular...

Ain't gonna get any better sitting on it for the rest of your life. Say your piece and hope for the best...

Worried about Saddam's nukes? One has to wonder if he even has any. North Korea, on the other hand... should be a much bigger issue. Odd. I can think of three reasons... 1) Iraq is a gimme 2) They're after oil 3) The US is trying to bring stability to the Middle East with democratic governments...

Zero out of five will survive. They all die eventually. The beneficial mutation means that one particular creature has a greater chance of reproducing before its death. Given a "stable" (now I'd like to find one of those) population, on *average* one of the offspring of a creature will...

Now there's a convenient explanation.

You seem awfully annoyed at that reaction for someone whose views on reality come from one book. Since we're discussing a field of "science" based on, oh, about four pages of Genesis, perhaps you could tell me where the "lesser light to govern the night" went.

Uh... right. I think the Big Bang theory is more of a "Universe is expanding. Earlier, it was smaller. Theoretically, if you go back far enough, it's all at a single point" idea. Edwin Hubble made it popular because he noticed that the farther away things were, the faster they were...

You sure? The Big Void is just as likely, from my perspective.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but not even Jack Chick rejects microevolution. Things evolve, yes, but there are these magical barriers in DNA which prevent things from evolving outside their "kind"...

Yeah, see, umm... I hate to tell you this, but the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis aren't too pleased with Hovind's pseudoscience. Possibly because they have the ridiculous notion that the truth is not based on falsehood. Christians disagree with his views because they...

I'll try going back to the OT: Hovind tells people what they want to hear.

:sigh: *Somebody* was bound to do it sooner or later. Throwing out knowledge is idiotic.

"Over sized"? Not all decays result in a decrease in baryon count.