(April 18, 2011 at 10:28 am)FoeHammer Wrote:(April 18, 2011 at 9:32 am)orogenicman Wrote: The difference between belief and disbelief is the amount of mental energy that is put into the effort. Believing "god did it" is about as lazy as a person's thinking can get. But hey, don't take my word for it. Think about it.Nothing created everything? Is this an example of industrious thinking?What a twonk you are.
FH
Nothing created everything? Wow, I've never heard that one before!

Do you even know where that claim came from, or what it relates to?
Erm, a singularity of immense density and energy is not nothing. Do you know anything at all about the laws of thermodynamics? Or astrophysics? Have you given it any thought at all?
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero