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Exactly - you'd rather believe, and therefore you're going to ignore anything that might make you feel a little less special. Y'know what? I'd rather believe humans are always nice to each other - but I don't go around denying the holocaust. You shouldn't shape your view of reality around what makes you feel nice and fuzzy inside. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

You don't have to read it Do you want to have an ideagasm?

I was thinking it before I even opened the poll Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Isn't it sad that even in this day and age that basic opposition to evolution is still usually founded on 'You mean I'm just another dirty animal? No you can't be right, I'm definitely better than them!' Do you want to have an ideagasm?

You could add 'Chain Home' into a search as well. Regardless of the current topic it's amazing stuff. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

You are misinformed. The UK had a home defence radar network in place before the start of WWII. The bloody big towers were a bit of a clue for the Germans and they were targeted accordingly (though mostly unsuccessfully) in the opening days of the Battle of Britain. Besides - how would we 'evacuate a city' anyway? We did however let Crete get taken by the Germans to protect codebreaking capabilities. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Oh. My bad

So have you... Do you want to have an ideagasm?

What! Don't be ridiculous In international waters that sub can be wherever the fuck it wants to be. What would you have done 30 years ago if the Russkies had sunk a USN boat that was tailing one of their battle groups? I guarantee you that the US, the UK, the Russians and the Chinese all have other boats out their doing the exact same thing right now. It is a game that all parties understand. I know that was the game before, and yet I stand by my statement. There would be virtually no way for them to now what happened to the sub. So you would sink every foreign sub within, what? 5 miles, 10 miles of a US vessel? It would rapidly become obvious what was happening and you would be declaring open season on USN boats - so then what? You'd be sacrificing US sailors and raising international tensions for the sake of a swinging dick contest. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

OK, that does sound like he needs a lot more talking to on the ground. I still think its good that he's asking the questions, but very bad if he ignores the answers Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Hey, just a thought (could be totally wrong) might it be cheaper for you guys to fly into London then get a Ryanair cheapo into Germany? Might be more airlines competing on flight prices to Heathrow/Gatwick. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

What! Don't be ridiculous In international waters that sub can be wherever the fuck it wants to be. What would you have done 30 years ago if the Russkies had sunk a USN boat that was tailing one of their battle groups? I guarantee you that the US, the UK, the Russians and the Chinese all have other boats out their doing the exact same thing right now. It is a game that all parties understand. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

"It's called using the absurd to point out the absurd. " No, its completely bloody unrelated! Its like me saying 'God can't exist because I don't know how to levitate.' It has no bearing on the discussion. Actually, I do understand, but change is so miniscule that it can't be measured or observed. Once again, everything has its seed within itself[think DNA ]. A blue whale has never had legs and walked on the land. A seal, on the other hand, has the best of both worlds, but it's flippers have always be flippers. I wonder why a Blue Whale has hips then? Keep digging dude, keep digging. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Yeah, my dad used to do research on warship noise signatures - he was gutted when we (UK) decided to de-commission our diesel-electrics. Said they were the only thing out there you could make absolutely silent when it was needed - you can never shut down the water pumps in a nuclear reactor Technology's come on 15 years since he last worked in that area though. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

I was thinking that myself. The guy only has 60 jumps, he's not expected to know everything. The fact that he's actively seeking info from the JM on where to go seems like a plus in my book? Did the JM explain tracking theory to him before telling him not to do it? Of course I wasn't there, so don't know what his general attitude and receptiveness to new info is. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Actually scientific theories are questioned and modified every day. Modern evolutionary theory does not strictly follow Darwin's Origin of the Species. Newton's Principia Mathematica is not the be all and end all of physics. The thing is - are you questioning theories from a position of knowledge or of ignorance? When you (and you have) post things like "How do scientists possibly know the earth is 10 billion years old?" No-one takes you seriously. Why? Because you haven't even bothered to do the most basic research into how old the earth is believed to be. Ditto when you say "How can a horse decide to grow a long neck and become a giraffe?" No-one takes you seriously. Why? Because you don't have even the most basic understanding of how natural selection actually works. When you argue from a position of ignorance, you will be thought of as ignorant. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

Yea, look at strom Thurmond. And hey, whats this roaring sound, wooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And whats this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! Thats it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground! Oddly enough, the only thing the bowl of Petunias thought was "Oh no, not again!" Do you want to have an ideagasm?

See, there we go. You refuse to write off the possibility of god not because of any scientific issues, but simply because it's culturally popular. There are no end of things that can't be strictly disproven, but only the really big ones get a pass. BTW, just so we're on the same page - I really don't believe in magic Do you want to have an ideagasm?

No evidence to substantiate magic? try looking up the rulings from the Salem witch trials! BTW, Noah's Ark? Show me. The bible has as much evidence for God as The Iliad does for Zeus and the Odyssey for Athena. Are they on the table too? Do you want to have an ideagasm?

David Attenborough is my all time hero - what a life that guy has led, and still continues to lead Unfortunately I haven't yet seen much of Planet Earth - although in my opinion it will take something quite superb to knock Blue Planet off the top of my "GodDamn that was incredible" list of TV shows. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

"What's the purpose of life?" Biologically speaking - reproduction. "What's the purpose of living? ( Staying alive?)" To enjoy existence. "Where do you turn to when everything in your life gets turned upside down?" Friends and people around me. "What hope do you have for things to change? " What things? Personally, I'm pretty good at the moment, and to change things for the better I could just be less lazy. "What keeps you going everyday?" Life, beauty, love, laughter and all that jazz

There's no denying that nature as a whole is majestic, but in some specific areas it was a pretty poor job. Take the joints of the human body from the hips down - quite terrible design, especially if we were always the intended outcome. I think one of Billvons favourite examples is the eye, like a camera with the wiring in front of the sensor. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

How? Magic (like deities) exists outside the scientific realm. Just because scientists haven't figured out how to see it yet doesn't mean its not there. Its exactly the same scenario as religion - yet one is given a pass and the other not. Do you want to have an ideagasm?

I didn't say they had life - everyone knows they work by magic. Science can no more disprove magic than it can god, but for some reason people who believe in that would be considered less than all there. The non-dismissal of the existence of god is a complete double standard. Do you want to have an ideagasm?