GENIUS FORUMS

I'd respond seriously but I'm not sure what it is I don't get. I was arguing about abiogenesis which is not "evolution". If you want to chastise someone for ignorance Faust made about the most stupid and ignorant statement I've ever seen about my post.

DHodges wrote:Do you have something in particular against the AK-47, or are you referring to the (now expired) ban on "Assault Weapons" such as the AK-47, the AR-15, Uzis, etc.?

You're not going to fight an army with a hunting rifle or a handgun.

The same people who own guns to protect themselves from the government also wear tinfoil hats and buy all of their food in cans... Every person I've ever known who owned a gun had it for one of two reasons: 1. Hunting 2. Personal protection Neither a hunting rifle or small caliber pistol are especia...

Goddamn this is boring, I wanted to read Kevin's take on the US having experienced it firsthand. Maybe you could create a new thread away from this dramafest, Kevin?

Saying that the second amendment is supposed to act as a barrier between the people and government seems fairly ridiculous to me. A codified right to own weapons or forced ownership of weapons existed far before America's 2nd amendment for many practical reasons. People were supposed to own and be f...

The relatively isolated location in which most of them appear indicates, to me, that it is probably humans because I doubt very much that an alien culture would favor the English above all others and bless them with so many designs meant for communication. Also, as dumb as we are we have a better pl...

And 99% of hack threats are BS. The best he could probably do is pull together a few idiots for a DoS but directly hack the server which hosts this site? I doubt it.

yawn...yawn... z Given that response I'll simplify it... For life to appear through a chemical reaction you want disorder not order. The phrase represents the state that a system's molecules are in so for the complex chemical reactions to occur which would be necessary for life to appear you would ...

I can agree to only handling that statement... what makes you think snowflakes, sand dunes, tornadoes, stalactites, graded river beds, and lightning are 'disordered.' On the contrary, these phenomena are incredibly ordered, with every variable causally determined and perfectly organized to create th...

As an American I'd be interested in hearing your insights too. It would probably be a more honest assessment of America and Americans than I've ever read since what one normally sees is severely jaded by stereotyping from a distance or extreme love/distaste for America at the outset.

Clearly, I stated this as one front upon which Israel fails and indicated I would be getting back to it. There are many! Hence, I fail to see your point. Am I meant to anticipate and therefore divulge the entire course of a discussion in a single post? There is much to say on this particular subjec...

What are you talking about? My “original” argument surrounded the theocratic nature of Israel. Israel is a country with a government. No less, it’s a country of Jews for Jews, a religion. That is its first basic law. I kind of think it’s obvious that, therefore, religious law is “intertwi...

The entire refutation doesn't refute anything... All the author does is point out that energy from the sun can't be processed and used by life without specific biological structures. So he basically ignores the second law (other than that pointless quote in the beginning), focuses on one aspect of e...

Once again, as I interpret what you're saying the difference between Biology and Chem/Physics is the degrees in which you can predict events. A physicists can be given basic information and calculate details involved in an object's movement before it happens but a Biologist can only say "This ...

It’s not a bad argument. Your understanding of the terms being used is bad. By definition, a secular government is free of clergy (and, therefore, religion) in government. Simple. Your original argument had nothing to do with the clergy holding governmental positions, it didn't come anywhere near...

Trevor, Unless I'm misunderstanding you seem to be delineating between a real science and a proto-science based on predictive power. Alchemists would combine things and hope for a reaction, however, modern chemists can combine elements to produce a specific reaction because they know how the ingredi...

Well said Neil.

Given that some 76% of Israel’s population identify as Jews--and we’ve already established that Judaism is a religion and, therefore, to be Jewish is to identify with the religion, even if only through “tradition”--I think your idea of the secular portion of Israel and its increased power i...

There are far better websites to choose from if you want to try refuting evolution. And I'd just like to point out that entropy has nothing to do with evolution since it requires a closed system. Organisms do not live in a closed system, they have external forces acting upon them constantly so the s...

How about: Instead of teaching figure out if she is worth the time and instead of covertly trying to change someone to better fit your disposition see if they will accept what you want to give up front?

My previous post was an attempt at trying to figure out what would be a usable and useful definition of race and what criteria must be met for such a designation to be applied. Simple difference isn't enough to separate people into different groups, you need to identify a set of differences which ar...

Before I even contemplate diving into this we have to establish some kind of common definition and measure of significance. As I know it the term 'Race' separates people based on common ancestry. Historically these divisions have been determined through aesthetics (skin color, hair type, facial feat...

I don't think that this is "often" the case (although we might disagree about what "often" means). You could say that the dramatic height difference between Bantus and Pygmies, or the dramatic difference in pigmentation between Scandinavians and Aboriginal Australians, are merel...

I’m not sure what you mean by that. You don’t disagree with having a theocratic country? Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t you just recently complaining that you can’t seem to shake the label Jew even though you’re not Jewish? All I'm pointing out is that the Israeli people are split ...

It's not all BS. We have found biological differences between people with depression and those without, especially between "normal" people and those who are bi-polar. Anything from a chemical imbalance to a genetic mutation can cause all kinds of psychological disorders. Soldiers were suff...