Manticore
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49 minutes ago, StringJunky said:
"How much did I drink last night?!!"
Meth, opiates, ganja & brain damage don't mix too well.
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7 minutes ago, dimreepr said:
Yet you seem to lack tolerance and forgiveness, but what makes you think the bad bits would be eliminated with religion?
Yes there is, the solace and meaning found in it by billions of peaceful people.
Less than a third of the world population - even if you lump all of the sects together.
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20 minutes ago, Strange said:
The overwhelming majority just ignore the "bad" bits.
That doesn't leave much - so why bother at all.
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6 minutes ago, ProgrammingGodJordan said:
Something I have come to observe:
Scientific data -> (as seen by laymen) -> Garbage, gibberish
Scientific data -> (as seen by scientists) -> Scientific data
As it happens; I am, by education, an Astrophysicist and by occupation a Computer Consultant. I suspect I know far more about both Physics and Programming than you - who have only so far displayed almost total ignorance in both areas.
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9 minutes ago, ProgrammingGodJordan said:
Are you like "Strange" that merely glanced the thread, and claim to have sufficient data to respond?
Spare an hour to observe the content, lest you proceed to comment emptily.
It doesn't take as long as an hour to scan a bunch of endlessly repetitive, content free waffle.
I even downloaded the PDF of your so-called paper & tried to make sense of that piece of gibberish.
You totally mangled my previous post when you "quoted" it.
I said:
Hypothesis? Nowhere to be found.
Model? Nowhere to be found.
Predictions? Nowhere to be found.
Experimental test? Non existent.
So, science? Not even close.
You changed it to:
Hypothesis? (Disproof/falsification)
Model? Yes, See paper.
Predictions? Yes, See paper.
Experimental test? See predictions.
So, science? Yes.
This is, to say the least, extremely offensive.
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Hypothesis? Nowhere to be found.
Model? Nowhere to be found.
Predictions? Nowhere to be found.
Experimental test? Non existent.
So, science? Not even close.
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36 minutes ago, Mike Smith Cosmos said:
If the Universe was all just matter , dust , and rock , , we might be struggling to say there is a God .
You are struggling (extremely unconvincingly) to say there is a God .
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15 minutes ago, iNow said:
Perhaps it would help to think of it less as "sanitization" and more as "fumigation?"
No. "Fumigation" is what they will have to do to the WH after the Trump creature leaves.
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There is a big difference between science and meaningless gibberish.
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The origin of complex life on Earth just got a little less mysterious
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2 minutes ago, dimreepr said:
At the risk of getting into a war of words with a couple of 'SuperNerds' but the converse sometimes seems equally true, in that a lack of understanding of religions initial intentions often leads a scientific atheist to dismiss the religious out of hand.
What do you think the "initial intentions" of religions are?
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Why is gold still valuable if it's not money anymore?
Might make more sense if the question read:
Why is money still valuable if it's not gold anymore?
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The amount of gold used works out to about 1 troy ounce per 1000 smartphones (or approximately 500 PCs).
That works out at around $1.3 per smartphone ($2.6 per PC).
Not really terribly expensive - but multiply by the billions of these devices in the world and you have a pretty good market.
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12 minutes ago, dstebbins said:
That doesn't mean gold has a utility to it. Gold plating is just decoration. It's just like jewelry; gold is used for decoration like that because it is seen as valuable, not the other way around. The use of gold as decoration does not give it value; it's a result of people seeing it as valuable.
Completely wrong. Gold is a good conductor and does not oxidise - there is no substitute. Gold plating on contacts is used in the interior of almost all electronic devices so it is absolutely not decorative in this application.
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From wikipedia:
When crystals of a number of metallic salts are dropped into a solution of water glass, simple or branching stalagmites of coloured metal silicates are formed. This phenomenon has been used by manufacturers of toys and chemistry sets to provide instructive enjoyment to many generations of children from the early 20th century until the present. An early mention of crystals of metallic salts forming a "chemical garden" in sodium silicate is found in the 1946 Modern Mechanix magazine. Metal salts used included the sulfates and/or chlorides of copper, cobalt, iron, nickel, and manganese.
(Water glass = Sodium Silicate.)
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Electronics - gold plated connectors are everywhere.
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Not to mention why?, wherefore? & wibble.
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41 minutes ago, geordief said:
Someone downvoted me .I wonder why.
I gave you +1 to neutralise them.
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10 minutes ago, MigL said:
He is responsible for his own actions.
Send him to Guantanomo with the rest.
See how he makes out.I'll drink to that.
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Try http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4360 - some browsers don't seem to be able to handle https:// addresses properly.
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1 hour ago, Airbrush said:
Each of these half universes are half as infinite as the two were together, right?
There is an old mathematicians joke about infinity - it goes something like this:
Question: You find an infinitely long piece of string. Where do you cut it to get two equal pieces?
Answer: Anywhere you like.
Question: How do you get three equal pieces?
Answer: Cut it anywhere you like. Then run alongside it for an infinite distance and cut it again.
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This was thoroughly debunked years ago. See https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4360
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Reconciling science and religion
in Religion
Posted · Edited by Manticore
No. but I would say far more than that live in peace - so their religion (or lack of one) has nothing to do with it.