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Well I thought it will be fun. Here goes: "Look at the usernames of the members and try to guess/describe their physical appearance with you think will go with their name. Choose at least one member" For a starter. Phi for All : Bulky heavy fella, bald and cheerful.

Ben Stein documents what he considers to be academic suppression of intelligent design proponents in a new movie: http://www.expelledthemovie.com/playground.php Check out Big Science Academy, where he sarcastically lampoons prevailing scientific opinion: http://www.expelledthemovie.com/bigscienceacademy.php He's tossing Einstein and Galileo into those expelled from "Big Science Academy" for good measure: http://www.expelledthemovie.com/bigscienceacademy_expelled.php

Only 1 of the questions are True, and only 1 is false the rest are ? marks. A well-liked college teacher had just completed making up the final examinations and had turned off the lights in the office. Just then a tall, broad figure with dark glasses appeared and demanded the examination. The professor opened the drawer. Everything in the drawer was picked up and the individual ran down the corridor. The dean was notified immediately. Which one is true and which one is false. 1. The thief was tall and broad and wore dark glasses 2. The professor turned off the lights. 3. A tall figure demanded the examination. 4. the examination was picked up by someone. 5.Th…

Just something that caught my attention while reading the "God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, page 56. The exact quotation is : *This also holds for all other languages in case it isn't clear. Anyone care to discuss?

can some one clear me up on the beliefs and thought process of an atheists? I have been pronounced atheist by many of my friends... but have found almost no information about it. (other than they don't believe in god...)

Jinnah and Gandhi are very well known across the world as the leaders who freed indians from the reiging British. Gandhi had a part to play so did Jinnah and a lot of other leaders. Jinnah got Indian freed from Britishers (along with Gandhi and others) but he also managed to separate the Muslims who felt inferior living with Hindus (history says I don't however I understand Hindu historian would say the opposite). I want you to decide on this debate whose topic I say shall be : "Why Gandhi is more famous than Jinnah". Please take this debate lighlty, no hard feeling or offence involved.

k I hope this is the right forum for it. I need very good debaters for Christianity as many as possible... so u can register on this forum Vladd44 forum and post on this thread : http://www.vladd44.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=9152 and the rest of the threads here : http://www.vladd44.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=9335 (just paste that on yr browser and it gets u to those site threads immediately.) As u can read on those threads we (the few Christians there) r up against very hard core and tough to defeat non-Christians who r very good debaters. Pls help us to argue against them and help spread God's Word in that forum pls... it has many unsaved members some 9525+ uns…

"Pink Dragon Effect" 1/2 "Pink Dragon Effect" 2/2 It's finally explaind I think. Anyone can add on it or got their own explainations?

If everyone spoke the truth, how do you think the world would be different? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker most conflict occurs not because of lies but because of truths that does not coincide with another truth. for example there are two persons facing each other in the middle the other guy holds a coin, he sees the heads, and the other sees the tails. if one says he sees the heads, and the other says he sees the tail, and they did not agree, can each other say that the other is lying? the fact is that they are both seeing the coin, the truth is they are seeing only one side of the coin... everybody speaks of the truth, it wouldnt be different. Things have been that…

This is an e-mail I just got. No, not only do I get rich, I get a child too! By the way, I'm not a Christian. It seems that many of the scams that aren't Nigerian are religious.

Sorry if there is another thread like this. So whats your favourite film? Mine is: 28days later.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm thankful my computer works well and lets me reach out to people around the world. I'm very thankful I don't have to feed you all today (but please stop by for some pie).

Because morality is a critical factor in how we live our life and how we choose our laws, it may be useful to get a scientist's opinion on it. Indeed, there are few things more important than how you decide what ought and ought not be done. Also, if you've changed your mind on where you get your morality, it may be interesting to hear about. If you act against your morals, it would also be interesting to know why you might do that. --- Oops! Somehow the last part of the poll question got eaten. It should have said: Where do you get your morality from? That is, how do you decide what ought to be done?

this would be so cool! it's like a space travel simulator? i would love to try something like this out! does anyone know of anything else similar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ZdS_D8Yr0

Trojan has recently started a campaign trying to change America's world view in regards to sexuality. Below is their "beliefs".

looking for info on a program i seen on the discovery channel, a machine or divice that creats it own power from a series of batteries. the USA will not patent the device but several other countries have. it is similar to a peretual motion device ,but its not

Typically, the most potential Regulatory affairs candidates are senior, industry-seasoned professionals who can chart a successful regulatory strategy for the organization in question. Such a person will have firsthand knowledge of what strategies work or do not work, will probably have good government agency contacts at this stage of his career and will be able to provide mentoring capabilities for the less-seasoned staff members. The typical profile is for someone with a Ph.D. and, depending on the level of the position – manager, director, etc - anywhere from 5 years to 15 years of related industrial experience. Younger candidates like science-major undergraduates…

What does it take to get into this college?

Now not to be taken to lightly but in all reality I think if you could produce pills that over time allowed a person to have a natural body odor of choice you would become a very very rich person overnight really. Anyone else agree or disagree and in reality what do you think the limits of action will be on the understanding and ability to manipulate a humans biochemistry?

Hello everyone! I've been lurking on SFN for a few months now and finally decided to create an account. I'm a graduate student at the University of Iowa in Molecular Biology and have a pretty diverse set of interests. I am looking for a little help from this community though. I have been working on a web project for the past two years and I need some feedback from my target audience. It's basically a myspace/FARK hybrid for the scientific community. Please stop by and leave me some feedback. http://www.labspaces.net

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I notice recently that there is a frightening new trend in some young people who are adopting twisted Social-Darwinist ideas or even Nazism. Actually, it is even more distorted and sinister than the former Social-Darwinism and mixes with a warped Nietzscherian phylosophy . They got this distorted notion that “Natural Selection” is about going on rampage killing people based on some ill personal criteria or at random because they consider themselves “superior” to the majority and hate them. However these people have no real knowledge about the modern Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution or how natural selection really works. Recently, a young man from Finland wen…

I'm looking for old-time (1930s-1950s) radio shows about either robots from space or robot killers, or something along those lines. Needs to be a radio show though. Just curious if anyone knows any off the top of their head. So far all I've been able to find is a story called "The Robot Killer" from an old sci-fi radio show titled "2000 plus".

Hey, im 15 and like most 15 year olds i like to blow stuff up, and shoot stuff and stuff like that. Anyone got any ideas of something tha i can make out of house hold items that is fun?

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/18615.asp A comparison of terrestrial human brain with that of extraterrestrial type V brain manifests a million year gap in technology and sophistication Of course, everything in it is completely unfounded and purely speculative, but it makes the news in India Technology. I would venture to say that, surely, there are a good number of civilizations living in the universe, given all of the finite variables and conditions. However, when they start talking about evolving into hyperspace and so forth, I have had a hard time accepting that these types of technology could ever come true. What is Zero Point Energy?