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    Thread: Paper on Comet/Asteroid Impact Causing the Younger Dryas Cooling.
Post: RE: Paper on Comet/Asteroid Impact Causing the You...

Haven't they also found nanodiamonds in the black mat?
Colanth Physical Sciences 23 5741 May 31, 2013 at 1:29 am
    Thread: Was Newton wrong?
Post: RE: Was Newton wrong?

(May 29, 2013 at 4:34 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (May 29, 2013 at 2:20 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: This was very wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)I think the correct words would be "ahead...
Colanth Physical Sciences 7 2538 May 31, 2013 at 1:14 am
    Thread: The internet should have a plan B
Post: RE: The internet should have a plan B

(May 18, 2013 at 12:01 am)ChadWooters Wrote: HAM radio anyone?Sure. But even code-free, get people to pass the test. Heck, even get people interested in it. How many clubs are going to set up nex...
Colanth Technology & Computing 11 3642 May 31, 2013 at 1:04 am
    Thread: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
Post: RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?

(May 6, 2013 at 12:28 pm)viocjit Wrote: Say to them : 1.Do you know the difference between Knowledge and Beliefs ?They'll tell you that if it says so in their book, they "know" it's true. Quote:3....
Colanth General Science 35 8994 May 31, 2013 at 12:32 am
    Thread: 20 Questions for Theists
Post: RE: 20 Questions for Theists

(May 20, 2013 at 1:49 pm)Gabriel Syme Wrote: I am a "theist" because I believe in God. If I didn't believe in God, I would be a theist.Yes - since "theist" means "believes in a god", believing in o...
Colanth Religion 37 14548 May 31, 2013 at 12:02 am
    Thread: God and the Imagination
Post: RE: God and the Imagination

(May 20, 2013 at 4:28 am)Godschild Wrote: You need to disprove my experiences before you dismiss themAssertions made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Quote:How is it you are cert...
Colanth Religion 26 9128 May 30, 2013 at 11:21 pm
    Thread: Pedophilia; I can't accept it.
Post: RE: Pedophilia; I can't accept it.

(May 20, 2013 at 5:55 pm)Arellius Wrote: I tried to look it up but I couldn't find any information which says that the Bible prohibits underage sex. It was common for 13 year old girls to wed and be...
Colanth Religion 116 37412 May 30, 2013 at 11:13 pm
    Thread: Is a dead baby enough of a wake up call?
Post: RE: Is a dead baby enough of a wake up call?

(May 25, 2013 at 10:29 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:"We believe in divine healing, that Jesus shed blood for our healing and that he died on the cross to break the devil's power," Herbert Schaible, 44...
Colanth Religion 17 6859 May 30, 2013 at 11:03 pm
    Thread: Religion, A Curable Illness
Post: RE: Leading neuroscientist: Fundamentalism may be ...

Fundamentalism itself isn't a mental illness - all religious belief is. (How can fervently believing in the non-existent be completely sane?)
Colanth Off Topic 47 17730 May 30, 2013 at 10:51 pm
    Thread: Conflicting statements in the bible
Post: RE: Conflicting statements in the bible

(May 30, 2013 at 6:50 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: (May 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: Not true. Homosexuality is only a capital crime in Iran perhaps, but definitely not in the kingdom, the ...
Colanth Religion 404 261363 May 30, 2013 at 10:47 pm
    Thread: How do you know God isn't dead?
Post: RE: How do you know God isn't dead?

(May 30, 2013 at 9:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: you're running an AIG playbook here and it's fucking insulting.Creationism usually is, isn't it?
Colanth Religion 303 163938 May 30, 2013 at 9:25 pm
    Thread: False perceptions about Atheism and Agnosticism
Post: RE: False perceptions about Atheism and Agnosticis...

(May 30, 2013 at 8:03 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: (May 30, 2013 at 4:41 pm)smax Wrote: Many Theists feel Atheism is the denial of the existence of god, and that Agnosticism represents a completely d...
Colanth Religion 73 34238 May 30, 2013 at 8:56 pm
    Thread: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
Post: RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

(May 28, 2013 at 5:44 pm)wwjs Wrote: I'm against abortion (except when mother's life is in danger and because of rape) and I support death sentence. There's no such thing as "atheist view on blah bl...
Colanth Atheism 511 185668 May 30, 2013 at 8:17 pm
    Thread: Supernatural phenomenon?
Post: RE: Supernatural phenomenon?

If it happened in the world, it's natural, not supernatural. If it's supernatural, it didn't happen in the world, so they wouldn't be able to know about it. Claims of "supernatural" are self-defeati...
Colanth Skepticism & Pseudoscience 15 5588 May 30, 2013 at 8:14 pm
    Thread: Would theists become atheists if we found lifeform
Post: RE: Would theists become atheists if we found life...

(May 23, 2013 at 8:12 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: (May 23, 2013 at 6:18 pm)Rhythm Wrote: A lifeform that's -impossible- to detect? That seems rather wishy washy bud. If they can't be detected...how di...
Colanth Atheism 55 16585 May 30, 2013 at 8:11 pm
    Thread: Saying this to an religious fanatic
Post: RE: Saying this to an religious fanatic

(May 27, 2013 at 8:01 pm)Dena Wrote: "God does not want anyone to go to hell. If they go to hell is because they chose to go. They did not want to be with God. That was their choice and he lets us c...
Colanth Atheism 32 5719 May 30, 2013 at 7:56 pm
    Thread: Atheist vs. agnostic vs. agnostic atheist
Post: RE: Atheist vs. agnostic vs. agnostic atheist

(May 30, 2013 at 7:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (May 30, 2013 at 11:10 am)Simon Moon Wrote: I think this is the case. A theist is someone that has an active belief (hold the propositions to be true) tha...
Colanth Atheism 34 17252 May 30, 2013 at 7:45 pm
    Thread: "I'm a Christian but I don't believe in religion."
Post: RE: "I'm a Christian but I don't believe in religi...

I find that the same people who say that they're Christian but they don't believe in religion, when asked their religion will say "Christianity". They're also the same people who accept the neocons' ...
Colanth Atheism 65 29312 May 30, 2013 at 7:11 pm
    Thread: Does it make any sense to ask what is the case for atheism?
Post: RE: Does it make any sense to ask what is the case...

(May 30, 2013 at 6:34 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: As long as there are eye-witness claims or purportedly to be so, there will always be some justification required to reject it, you cannot reject an alleg...
Colanth Atheism 64 29833 May 30, 2013 at 6:55 pm
    Thread: Shoddy Journalism
Post: RE: Shoddy Journalism

Since Clovis is ca. 11.5kya, and these coprolites are ca. 14kya, of course they're older. But the article is about the coprolites, not about the older invasion, which may have been Ainu or northern E...
Colanth General Science 3 1354 July 16, 2012 at 11:45 pm