Itoero

You're welcome! You gave this statement a +1 : "Thinking those subjective opinions do have a scientific value is a big logical fallacy and causes countless erroneous beliefs." Giving scientific value to subjective opinions is exactly what you do.

The possibility of being content or discontent is innate but external factors form that mental state. The possibility of growing into a tree is 'innate' for an acorn but external factors decide if he will grow into a tree. When you are born everything is uncertain...

James Arthur won X factor in 2012. He's amazingly good.

Today I learned there are tits living in my garden.

Maybe the apple would fall on someone else's head...

Are there people inhere that 'play' with Lego? I do. In the last months I have built several lego technic's and now I'm rebuilding a truck (42029)...I'm making my first remote controlled car.

Like I said before. It depends what you consider the mental state to be. A conscious mind dreams while the body is unconscious. It might be that women evolved to be more prone to correctly interpret the mental state of a sleeping baby. Being content is not innate but the possibility of being content is innate.

My dog moves her paws and makes noise while sleeping, you can call that evidence for that she's dreaming. What evidence do you have to say those are content or discontent dreams?

It depends what you consider the state of mind. My dog makes noise and moves her paws so her conscious mind is not fully at rest...you can call that 'dreaming'. Assumptions concerning the state of the conscious mind, while the subject is unconscious, are subjective opinions with no real meaning. Thinking those subjective opinions do have a scientific value is a big logical fallacy and causes countless erroneous beliefs.

If you don't like the forum then why are you still here?

My dog often makes noise while he's sleeping. It's pretty clears she dreams. I think every animal that can store knowledge and can conscious use that knowledge can dream. It's imo impossible to make valid assumptions concerning the state of mind while unconscious.

I just learned that water vapour causes about 36–70% of the greenhouse effect.

Today I learned that the vultures that sometimes visit Belgium are Griffon vultures that live in France. They have been reintroduced in the massif central in France.

I used to grow a lot of peppers (hot and sweet). A couple years ago I joined (on dutch forum) a competition to grow the heaviest pepper...I won Big Bertha and especially Goliath sweet peppers are very productive, big plants and give a lot of big peppers. (many above 400g) My heaviest pepper was the 'super heavy weight' variety. A small unproductive plant but the peppers can grow huge...mine was 566g. I'm mentioned on this website:http://www.giantgardening.com/rec_pepper-sweet.php I'm the guy from Belgium, my first name is Sander. (there is a photo of my big pepper) A mix of vinasse and fish emulsion is in my opinion the best/most complete fertilizer for big peppers or tomatoes. What do you think about kelp fertilizing? It should contain a lot of growth hormones and help especially chinense peppers to grow faster when they are small but I did not notice any difference. Big Zac and Giant Belgium give me tomatoes above 1kg. And I was planning to graft a pepper on a tomato-root but it failed, I'm not handy enough. I did grow a grafted red oxheart...the grafting should make them more productive but I haven't notice a difference in production. Many people do graft tomatoes on potatoes...I think you can even buy a tomtato hybrid. I used to grow many chinense peppers. In the uk, someone grew a huge dorset naga and picked 2.407 peppers.

That's very true. I find it annoying when people lack knowledge and assume they can create 'science' with only their understanding or imagination. Your understanding has to be backed up with sufficient scientific knowledge. Also, when someone calls you stupid or that you lack understanding, then that's only for a particular subject...he or she does not make assumptions concerning your IQ.

That's why I detest antibacterial soap. I want to save as many bacteria as I can.

Is it ok to kill bacteria?

I don't have anything what you consider to be evidence. This is common sense. Good treatment leads to contentment. The study of this 'relationship' leads to morality/good behavior.

Contentment is an evolved trait, its instinctive behavior.

When debating a young earth creationist you might want to point to the biochemical similarity between animals and plants. (and humans) Plants use for example catalase to deal with H2O2...so do animals and humans...you can easily experimentally show this. Mix human blood with H2O2 and mix cutup plants with H2O2....you will then see the same reaction. It shows that we are related to plants.

So you deny the secularity in many countries?

I don't want to 'strengthen' your faith but If God or something else created the universe then he might have made it possible for life to arise from non living matter. I don't think proving the possibility of abiogenesis says anything about the existence of God.

What about abiogenesis? It's of course not proven but many things (like Miller-Urey and many others) point to the possibility. I doubt we can ever prove abiogenesis (unless we learn to travel in time)but we will probably be able to prove it's possible.

A model gives info concerning truth in its reality...not about ultimate truth/reality. That's why I call science a search towards that ultimate reality/truth. I use the term 'Ultimate' to make a distinction and to show that the truth/reality you get from a model is never 100% proven and open for change. Science in a sense evolves by turning beliefs into hypotheses or theories...it depends what definition you use. I of course have no evidence for this and I know it's more complicated then the way I describe it. -When G T Hooft came up with the Holographic principle then he had first many idea's in his head (beliefs) concerning a deterministic universe which he then wrote down into a hypothesis. -Everything Einstein came up with, were first beliefs...in his big head. -Many scientists are developing a therapy to treat diseases. I don't think scientists would spend time developing a therapy if they don't believe it will work.

This is semantics. Science is a never ending search towards ultimate reality or truth in the sense that models in science are always open to be disproven or improven. Science constantly evolves.