(June 10, 2025 at 1:05 am)Paleophyte Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 10:21 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: How many nanograms was the connective tissue?

No idea, but it doesn't look like much.

connective tissue is big

(June 10, 2025 at 8:23 am)Alan V Wrote: I was guilty of this when I was a theist, and I consider it one of theists' most basic failings: They arrive at the conclusion they want, then try to arrange their reasoning and evidence to support it.  They are not fairly addressing the question of whether God exists or not, because they do not give all facts and reasoning equal weight in approaching the question.  It's "verdict first, trial second" because they have already identified as believers.

It wasn't until all of my arguments finally fell apart when I was fifty that I gave atheistic perspectives a fair assessment.  Then I was convinced by them very quickly since, by that time, I was well-aware of the problems with the arguments supporting the God-concept.

This is yet another reason to think SubtleVirtue is still very young and has a lot to learn.

I always learn from atheist, even if indirectly

(June 10, 2025 at 4:06 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 10:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: It's already been shown. Of course, Wile E. Coyote, Supragenius™, would already know that.

has it been shown by you?

Have you shown us here how a helicopter can hover? Have you shown how an internal combustion engine works? Do so now, with your equations and engineering drawings, or shut the fuck up with the asinine requirement that I be able to do everything humankind has ever done before I can refer to it in a discussion.

So yes, drawings and equations. Chop chop, sonny boy! Get your dumb ass to work already.

(June 10, 2025 at 12:21 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 6:02 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: what is "spirit"?

The nonphysical part of a person which is the seat of their emotions and character and which survives after the person's death.

"...the dead know nothing at all,.... for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave..." Ecclesiastes 9:5,10

(June 10, 2025 at 12:31 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 6:05 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: what does "QED" mean?

I stand corrected. Spinoza was more arrogant that I initially believed, given the weaknesses in his ontological argument for God.

I use an adaptation of his monism proof in my logical proof

(June 10, 2025 at 12:40 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 6:07 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: yes

God is lucky to have someone smarter than him to improve on his commands.

I agree.

(June 10, 2025 at 12:43 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(June 9, 2025 at 5:53 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: How do you know the decay rate for anything besides carbon 14... we know that the carbon 14 is from the radiation hiting the atmosphere but where does the radio isotopes come from from the other processes?

I've never previously encountered a scientist who knows how to conduct Carbon 14 dating who is mystified by how radiometric dating works in all other cases.

How many have you met?

I hear one on this thread, but he don't know up from down.

(June 10, 2025 at 4:18 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(June 10, 2025 at 4:06 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: has it been shown by you?

Have you shown us here how a helicopter can hover? Have you shown how an internal combustion engine works? Do so now, with your equations and engineering drawings, or shut the fuck up with the asinine requirement that I be able to do everything humankind has ever done before I can refer to it in a discussion.

So yes, drawings and equations. Chop chop, sonny boy! Get your dumb ass to work already.

that is what I thought

(June 10, 2025 at 4:09 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:

(June 10, 2025 at 1:03 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Yes, the minerals form from the cooling of lava. That's what lava is, liquid mineral.

No, atoms don't stop decaying just because you heat them. The minerals stop recording the decay product above a certain temperature. So the decay product still happens but all trace of it is lost. Above the closure temperature all record of the decay is erased.

closure temperature has nothing to do with decay...

It kinda does. That’s the reason why it’s called ‘closure temperature’.

Boru

(June 10, 2025 at 4:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 10, 2025 at 4:09 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: closure temperature has nothing to do with decay...

It kinda does. That the reason in fact, it’s called ‘closure temperature’.

Boru

it refers to isotopes moving out of the mineral, not to decay of the isotopes