Moontanman

Are you talking about the 7 deadly sins or the ten commandments? I'm not sure I know them all in order....

Not exactly... Probably closer to 6 and 9 if I remember correctly....

I was rather hoping to die while committing a sin, actually a rather specific sin but that's not important....

Because we have no logical alternative? What other alternatives also also allow what we see in nature to be true? Again I'll ask what other alternative is there? What evidence do you have for this alternative? Can you give any reason to suppose there is recent origin for any species? What species would that be and what is your evidence for this recent origin?

Here is a u-tube video of my paddlefish I think I need some help here guys and gals....

Have you ever been at the beach when seagulls were feeding and flying all around? If you listen, you can often hear words, even short phrases, in the almost white noise of their squawking. It's just your brain hooking random noises together into something familar....

Well to me things are getting crazier by the second, the mongoose is begining to grow feathers and fins...

In recent years, at the banquet of life, crazy has become the main course....

I'm trying to understand what this has to do with sex at all much less homosexuality, i am really trying.... If you define human behavior completely by the behavior of our closest relatives then having sex with children should be ok, what do you mean by natural limits? For this to make sense you have to define natural limits... Over weight animals? Ever see a bear just before winter? Some human cultures being what westerners call obese is a good thing to be striven for, you are judging humans by western culture ideals which even western culture fails to achieve as a majority, if humans were wild and living in a cold climate i can see how storing body fat is a good thing since food is scarce in the winter or during the dry season or what ever. Since humans are not in their "natural" state and haven't been since we developed culture (I'm defining natural here as close to being the wild primitive state, in many ways humans are more like animals in captivity who also get fat) For humans in their natural being fat might have been a good thing, it's known that the primitive European cultures used obese depictions of women as talisman and are though to have worshiped a fat women as personifications of the earth goddess so the western idea that fat woman are somehow flawed is new human behavior not the natural state of humans... And I still don't see how this has anything to do with homosexuality....

JRH, as inow pointed out in post #11 DoubleK was incorrect in some of his assertions and you evidently missed Inows post. Many animals have sex for fun, dolphins being one, dolphins will even attempt to have sexual contact with humans, wild benobo chimps are notorious for having homosexual sex as well as sex with their young for fun and as a social lubricant. A great many other animals engage in homosexual contact so while DoubleK got part of it correct his assertions as quoted above are incorrect...

Thanks Sayonara, I've managed to get some better shots by moving the camera back away from the glass and using zoom. I want to make a 185 gallon tank out of some old panes of float glass i have.... The fish are demonstratively smaller than their hatch mates in the ponds of the fish farm i got them from. My fish are 6" max and the average of the farmed fish are 15" plus and growing fast, mine have almost stopped already....

WOW I just fed my paddlefish some daphnia and as watched them feed I saw one swoop down and grab a black banded sunfish and swallow it! Evidently our mild mannered paddlefish are not so mild or mannered! The paddlefish was about 5" and the sunfish was about 1", I wonder what an adult paddlefish would do to a school of minnows, or a school of shad? I've noticed what looked like the paddlefish lunge at an otto a few times but he missed so badly I figured it was just a fluke. I wonder what adult paddlefish would do with a school of minnows or shad? I guess filter feeding is relative to the size of the particles being filtered

Most likely dry nasal passages did it, i use a nasal moisturizing spray like Ocean, it's a mild saline spray that moisturizes your sinuses and helps prevent infections. It really works for me, even if you do get an infection it helps make it milder....

No Severian, we have one example of a planet with life, from extremophiles to complex and very delicate life, we have no example of God, chemistry predicts that the same chemical reactions that happen here happen elsewhere in the universe so you are wrong, there is no 0=0 it's life 1 god 0 and lots of circumstantial evidence for life elsewhere but none for god....

What would you use for energy to lift this water? I know of no energy source powerful enough to move such huge amounts of water off the planet, if we could do that would could probably just move the planet a tiny bit and solve the problem.

The Pagans I know do not actually worship the moon no more than Christians worship a figure of a man on a cross, it's the personification of their goddess... In that vein I was thinking of aliens who also worship a god who is personified by their planets moon (The book "Rare Earth" asserts that a large moon might be a perquisite for life) other authors have suggested our large moon has had a great influence on both our cognitive skills as in people who could tell the seasons by the moon farmed more effectively, lived longer and had more offspring and observing the moon started off the observation of nature and the nature of reality. So i don't think the moon or sun for that matter can be dismissed as the personification of a Deity even in advanced societies. The Sun certainly does more for us than any abstract God does and some authors say that the Jews started out as sun worshipers and the entire idea of one God come from that sun worship.... Serveran, the fact that life exists here and we see the conditions that would allow life to exist in other places is makes the possibility of aliens a logical extension of reality, God on the other hand has no evidence what so ever, your assertion there is equal evidence for God and alien life doesn't hold true...

I think it should be pointed out that not only is each persons cancer unique all types of cancer are different as well. there will probably never be a one time cure for cancer across the board for much the same reason that different other diseases are not cured by the same thing, Cancer is many different diseases that share similarities but are still different, much like the need for different antibiotics for different bacteria different cancers require different cures.... Then there is the immune system, the reality is that cancer cells develop all the time in all of us but our immune systems recognize them and kill them, only when a cancer gets around this does it proliferate and kill us. Sometimes our immune system "wakes up" and even end stage cancer can be eliminated by the body, hence miraculous cures.... yeah, I've been asking questions when i go to the doctor

Ok, lets say they come from a planet with a large moon much like ours (it could be important as the book "Rare Earth" asserts) and they think that a planets moon is the personification of God, I guess the pagans who worship the Moon Goddess get the free ride and everyone else is screwed?

Well for one thing i can't keep people up dated about my paddlefish as effectively with out pics..... paddlefish are pretty special, I might be only one of three or four people who are keeping these endangered primitive fish in the entire world. I am discovering some really exciting things about them and being able to down load pics from my computer. I post about them on five fish forums and two science forums. Pics seem to be the best way to get across the idea of their unique behaviors. Video would be nice too, i am trying to upgrade to high speed so i can upload videos of them... maybe videos would be even better....

I see what you mean, you are assuming a real one true God and I was assuming God is just mythology that we fight and kill over....

Hey cap'n while you are at it what happened to our pic galleries?

Tree dwellers might be more accurate for many but most were small insectivores. Like shrews, possums, and several other linages but very small. Many if not most mammals of the time were thought to be nocturnal. Again you have your information confused, mammals appeared before dinosaurs appeared but the dinosaurs out competed and suppressed the mammals for 150 million years. They both developed from different linages of reptiles, this is an example of the type of reptiles mammals evolved from. I think I've answered this one but if not i'll try again... That's because you have your time frame confused....

The Centauri system is incredibly interesting, back yard radio astronomy would be very interesting to me if I could see the Centauri system from where live. About 35 years ago I was out bid at an auction for a 20 foot radio dish I wanted to use as a radio astronomy ground station. If Alpha Centauri was visible from here I would have bid more money , lol

What would this upper limit be? i see no reason to think there is an arbitrary upper on the genome of any organism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome

Can the Aurora be heard? Some people report hearing sounds when the aurora is intense. Some also speculate this is connected with hearing meteors. i can sometimes hear meteors but I've never seen or heard the aurora. Can it be possible and is there a mechanism for this? http://www.damninteresting.com/the-sound-of-the-aurora