Everything posted by swansont
- On Islam
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Why did Paul suggest that people should not marry?
You don’t get to change the parameters of someone else’s question just because it’s inconvenient
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I may win a nobel for this: the dinosaur theory was bonkers!
! Moderator Note No, it doesn’t Feel free to ask questions to improve your knowledge, but we don’t have a WAG forum
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I may win a nobel for this: 'The sun and the moon are planet earth...IN PARALLEL DIMENSIONS...
Because they happen to be at distances from the earth that their angular size is approximately the same. They aren’t exactly the same; the orbits are elliptical so the angular size varies. The moon’s orbit has changed over time, so this situation wasn’t always the case. ! Moderator Note Please try to include some science in your posts. Otherwise they will be moved to the trash
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Why did Paul suggest that people should not marry?
“Normal” wasn’t part of this. The question was “What barbaric things do other animals do that humans don't?” Appending “normal” to this is a straw man (in case you’re not sure: that’s not something you should be doing)
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Why did Paul suggest that people should not marry?
And rape exists in humans. Human women sometimes kill their husbands. Being punished by law is irrelevant to the point. The question was “What barbaric things do other animals do that humans don't?” (and the part about eating their mates is an exaggeration. It happens in one species of black widow https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-black-widows-eat)
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Defining feminism in the digital age
To fend off the issue we saw in a recent thread, this does not mean treating women exactly the same as men. The issue here is also about equity, which not really the same as equality. Equal opportunities and equal outcomes, which don’t always happen by treating everyone exactly the same https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equity-vs-equality/
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Where Is The Science ?
If it’s just preaching, we’ll shut it down. If a pattern emerges that shows there’s an agenda, we’ll deal with it, but that sometimes takes time.
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Defining feminism in the digital age
Is this a surprise? Social media is not academia. It seems to me you are leaning heavily on social media as your source here, and citing opinion rather than fact. People on social media have warped definitions for e.g. socialism, too. they want to use a hot-button word to evoke a response. That has more to do with people who like trolling than anything else. So what is it you want to discuss? Trolling on social media, or actual feminism? If it’s the latter, don’t be citing the former.
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Where Is The Science ?
This is a statistical blip. One must remember that participation in these threads is voluntary.
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Principle of Causality and Inertial Frames of Reference
! Moderator Note Then you do not have material that fulfills the requirements of the speculations section Do not reintroduce this subject
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Strange happenings
Ghideon posted a screenshot that looks quite straight.
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Strange happenings
A jump of any distance would follow a parabolic path, not a straight line. And a jump (especially upward) wouldn't be at ~constant speed
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Strange happenings
What rodent would follow those paths, through the air?
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Why does homosexuality exist in nature?
! Moderator Note Are you using wikipedia as a source? You haven’t provided any citations. And social media is definitely not a source. Neither is this. You need to do better
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Are transgender people born that way?
What is it you want to discuss? Gender schema, or transgenderism? There might be some overlap, but AFAICT these are not the same thing.
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Are transgender people born that way?
You posted this in medical science, so you’d better be discussing science.
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Are transgender people born that way?
! Moderator Note Where? Who is making the arguments? This is in medical science - are these medical science arguments? Let’s see what science you’ve heard on the subject.
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Why do people demand unnecessary evidence for a God?
But you said IQ, which is intelligence, not education. (actual IQ tests, OTOH…) Yes, they were better-educated, but there were relatively few of them, because the masses were doing manual labor. They had opportunity and probably family means or a patron. The average person today is much better educated - “developed” countries send their kids to school rather than the mines or to plow a field - plus they have the benefit of accumulated knowledge. (more than half of US adults >25y.o. have some level of college education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States#General_attainment_of_degrees/diplomas)
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Why do people demand unnecessary evidence for a God?
You said “The average person as recently as the early 1900s didn't even read or write” so it’s not at all obvious that that’s what you meant, but I appreciate the tap-dancing.
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Why do people demand unnecessary evidence for a God?
Literacy is a matter of education opportunity rather than intelligence.
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Galaxies are much bigger than we thought, study reveals
No. It doesn’t address the issue. But your response suggests it was a quote from an AI source. Was it? If you can put forth the effort to consult a chatbot, you can use a search engine. I skip past the AI summary when I use Google.
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Why do people demand unnecessary evidence for a God?
They did, in fact, have separate water coolers for a long time, and SCOTUS decisions require a majority. But this doesn’t rebut the point; it only attempts to rationalize minority influence.
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Where does atheist morality come from?
And yet slavery was supported by Bible followers. If that book can be used to support and deny slavery, just think what other things it can be used to support or deny, based on the wants of the individual? How can it be a moral guide if that’s possible?
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Principle of Causality and Inertial Frames of Reference
Your errors are omissions, so this is not possible. You show me where you’ve explicitly explained how causality is invoked. Show where you’ve provided a transform that changes a photon to a muon.