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When Faith and Science Clash
RE: When Faith and Science Clash
(September 22, 2012 at 10:46 am)Stimbo Wrote: The Sun (or Sol) is actually a class G2 yellow dwarf. All this class M stuff is fallout from Star Trek.

Yeah, I tried to edit it later, but it was beyond the time limit.

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.
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RE: When Faith and Science Clash
(September 22, 2012 at 11:10 am)pocaracas Wrote: Wasn't "class m" reserved to planets with an Oxygen-Nitrogen atmosphere, close to our Earth?

That's right. Class M meant Earth-like. The original Roddenberry idea to account for all the Earthlike planets and humanoid aliens, pretty much the only way to go on a restricted budget, was to do with parallel evolution, basically that similar conditions will produce similar results. Not very scientific, but at the end of the day the actors are in a sound studio interacting with other actors with green or orange skin or rubber bits attached, since there aren't many Klingons in the Actors' Guild (to paraphrase Roddenberry horribly).

(September 22, 2012 at 11:28 am)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, I tried to edit it later, but it was beyond the time limit.

I'll let you off then. I hate it when that happens as well; if anyone spots embarrassing typos or missing words in my posts it's for that exact reason. Oh to have mod-like powers.
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