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'Singularity' and 'nothing' are not the same thing.

You are welcome.

No, that is not correct. You should Google Dark Matter. Citation? No, that is not correct. You should Google The Big Bang.

What I'm asking for is your evidence that a "real" God would be bound by the same laws that we are as you asserted.

I'm anxious to see your evidence for that assertion. It sounds suspiciously faith-based to me.

So the quantum foam has an effect on stuff? Doesn't that imply it is not 'nothing', but only the closest thing to nothing that we might be able to achieve in nature?

That makes no sense to me. You are essentially saying 'nothing equals something (foam)'.

Don't mean to brag, but I have no problem at all understanding "nothing".

I'll dispute it. If conditions permanently change, and those conditions were necessary for something specific to happen, then it can't happen again.

Thank you both for the replies.

How does melting ice result in less water in rivers?

The thought has occurred to me. ""I could just jump!" But it is no different to me than any other thoughts. "Maybe I'll win the lottery!" or "I could go to Ireland for holiday this year." In your first post you refer to it as a "thought" someone might have. I have had the thought. In a later post though you refer to it as an "urge", which I've never had. I'd be surprised if most people have had the "urge" to kill someone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html

Actually I believe they found that those who knew they were being prayed for did worse than those who did not know they were being prayed for. They suspected it had something to do with high expectations. Other than that I believe the study found there was no benefit to prayer.

No one said anything like that. You seem to be so busy defending your position that you aren't taking the time to read (and understand) what others are saying. That's a first. Not many people actually admit they are building a straw man before knocking it down. So... I guess this means you aren't going to show me where I did that?

Sure it is. Both you and the cop are taking some fact you know (or believe) to be fairly common within a group, and applying it to all the individuals within the group as if it applies to ALL of them. That is core to racism, sexism, and bigotry in general. Again, acting as if ALL women react one way and ALL men react another is sexist. I don't remember saying or implying that. Can you show me where I did?

And when the white cop says "I don't think it's racist to pull over black drivers and search them for drugs", is he just being logical?

Thanks! What makes it sexist is when you treat (or think of) individuals within a group as all having the same traits that are simply 'common' within the group. Similarly you should not treat all blacks, jews, white males, Catholic Priests, etc. the same simply because of traits that are common in their group. Nothing wrong with being thoughtful about your actions in case a person does have a certain trait, but you shouldn't take actions as if you know they have a trait.

It's not a very fair tactic to first present your 'off topic' position, then avoid having to defend it by claiming "off topic - I'm out".

The frequency of what?

That young girl yodeling was awesome! Thanks!

The Disappearing Spoon -- by Sam Kean "...Kean rectifies that in this amble from element 1, hydrogen, to element 112, copernicium. Attaching stories to a human-interest angle, Kean ensures that with his elaboration of the fixation a chemist, physicist, industrialist, or artist had for a particular element comes clarity about why the element behaves as it does. The soft sell about proton numbers and electron shells thus closes the deal for Kean’s anecdotes about elements of war, elements of health, and elements of wealth, plus the title’s practical joke of a spoon (made from gallium)."

No

Whoa I guess if her father was my king, I'd say whatever he wanted to hear about his daughter. But damn...

How large of an area do they form in? Millions of square miles? I'm guessing the answer is "no", you will not be able to prevent them from forming in the first place.