(November 28, 2014 at 2:41 am)snowtracks Wrote: finding meteoritic trace amounts of these chemical compounds are tantamount to finding gold in sea water. just another nasa ploy to keep program funding's flowing, they're playing you like fiddle and you don't even know it.
Of course...
Because anything that contradicts your Bronze and Iron Age texts has to be wrong by default.
What a great built in protection you have for your beliefs.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.