(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote:

(June 1, 2014 at 1:02 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Why do experiences of God deserve special consideration?


We know for a fact these experiences are originating within the brain, and mine can be dismissed with a psychological explanation, yet if I had told you I saw winged angels and pearly gates you'd unquestioningly accept it as evidence for the supernatural?

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not me. God doesn't give private revelation.

Loads of Christians out there disagree.

You posted the story of someone's NDE that had nothing to do with Christianity as "evidence" for the afterlife.

I post an NDE, you say "God doesn't give personal revelation."

Did you forget about Saul? Abraham? Moses? The bible is packed full of individuals acting on personal revelations from God. Did you read the entire book?

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(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote:

(May 30, 2014 at 2:19 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/26659/earth...z33B2tu9GS

this impact also happened to provide much of the needed earth's core iron to form the magnetic field which shields the earth from the solar wind. "The iron core of the impactor melted on impact and merged with the iron core of Earth, according to computer models."
so the 'big whack' provided both the right atmosphere and magnetic field.
http://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html

Non sequitur, stop moving the goalposts: You claimed the earth had no atmosphere, cited an article, the next paragraph in the article describes an atmosphere.

On the other hand, I'm starting to understand where the username comes from.

(June 2, 2014 at 1:49 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:

(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote: [/hide]
not me. God doesn't give private revelation.

Loads of Christians out there disagree.

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(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote: this impact also happened to provide much of the needed earth's core iron to form the magnetic field which shields the earth from the solar wind. "The iron core of the impactor melted on impact and merged with the iron core of Earth, according to computer models."
so the 'big whack' provided both the right atmosphere and magnetic field.
http://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html

Non sequitur, stop moving the goalposts: You claimed the earth had no atmosphere, cited an article, the next paragraph in the article describes an atmosphere.

On the other hand, I'm starting to understand where the username comes from.

wrote life-suffocating atmosphere---
"The Earth formed with the Sun 4.6 billion years ago. At this point, it was nothing more than a molten ball of rock surrounded by an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium" - no oxygen.

(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote: this impact also happened to provide much of the needed earth's core iron to form the magnetic field which shields the earth from the solar wind. "The iron core of the impactor melted on impact and merged with the iron core of Earth, according to computer models."
so the 'big whack' provided both the right atmosphere and magnetic field.
http://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html

How did you so completely misunderstand those references?

That 'big whack' did neither of those things.

(June 2, 2014 at 1:59 am)snowtracks Wrote: wrote life-suffocating atmosphere---
"The Earth formed with the Sun 4.6 billion years ago. At this point, it was nothing more than a molten ball of rock surrounded by an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium" - no oxygen.

Not all life depends on Oxygen, and some of those produce it instead.

Exactly so. It was the production of oxygen that led to the first atmospheric pollution event, as the metabolised free oxygen became more dominant in the atmosphere. It was this which gave rise to the so-called Cambrian Explosion; oxygen is like rocket fuel for life and allowed for multicellular organisms to evolve.

Of course I may have butchered the scenario somewhat, but it's essentially correct.

(June 2, 2014 at 12:24 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Exactly so. It was the production of oxygen that led to the first atmospheric pollution event, as the metabolised free oxygen became more dominant in the atmosphere. It was this which gave rise to the so-called Cambrian Explosion; oxygen is like rocket fuel for life and allowed for multicellular organisms to evolve.

Of course I may have butchered the scenario somewhat, but it's essentially correct.

Indeed the production of oxygen led to a mass extinction that almost wiped out all life.

http://www.damninteresting.com/how-bacte...-all-life/

(June 2, 2014 at 12:24 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Exactly so. It was the production of oxygen that led to the first atmospheric pollution event, as the metabolised free oxygen became more dominant in the atmosphere. It was this which gave rise to the so-called Cambrian Explosion; oxygen is like rocket fuel for life and allowed for multicellular organisms to evolve.

Of course I may have butchered the scenario somewhat, but it's essentially correct.

Not technically correct.

The first oxygen producing bacteria evolved >3 billion years ago, while the great oxidation event that resulted in accummulation of free oxygen in atmosphere occurred >2.5 billion years ago. But first indications of multicellular organisms occurred > 3 billion years ago. So oxygen in atmpshere didn't allow multi-cellular organisms to evolve. Pre-oxidation atmopshere clearly already allowed multicellularity to evolve, not just once, but many times.

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(June 2, 2014 at 1:59 am)snowtracks Wrote: "The Earth formed with the Sun 4.6 billion years ago. At this point, it was nothing more than a molten ball of rock surrounded by an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium" - no oxygen.

Yes. But soon the primordian hydrogen and helium atmosphere was replaced by a nitrogen and carbon dioxide atmosphere that resulted from volcanism on the young and still mostly molten ball of rock.

Guess, what, carbon dioxide has oxygen in it.

Once there is chemically combined oxygen, there is ingriendients for biological processes such as photosynthesis to extract that oxygen from the carbon and release it to the atmosphere, like the little house plant you might have in you home still does every fucking day.............

Thanks for the clarification.

(June 2, 2014 at 1:49 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:

(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote: [/hide]
not me. God doesn't give private revelation.

Loads of Christians out there disagree.

You posted the story of someone's NDE that had nothing to do with Christianity as "evidence" for the afterlife.

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I post an NDE, you say "God doesn't give personal revelation."

Did you forget about Saul? Abraham? Moses? The bible is packed full of individuals acting on personal revelations from God. Did you read the entire book?

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(June 2, 2014 at 1:12 am)snowtracks Wrote: this impact also happened to provide much of the needed earth's core iron to form the magnetic field which shields the earth from the solar wind. "The iron core of the impactor melted on impact and merged with the iron core of Earth, according to computer models."
so the 'big whack' provided both the right atmosphere and magnetic field.
http://www.psi.edu/epo/moon/moon.html

Non sequitur, stop moving the goalposts: You claimed the earth had no atmosphere, cited an article, the next paragraph in the article describes an atmosphere.

On the other hand, I'm starting to understand where the username comes from.

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