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  1. jonathan180iq

    No debate anymore?

    No worries. The way we take conversations on the internet will vary wildly from day to day. Between the two of us, we've contributed nearly 8,500 posts to RF. I'm sure we've both been the victim and the aggressor at points of conversation. I think it's an insanely interesting subject and I'd...
  2. jonathan180iq

    To those who are multi-lingual...a question for you.

    I'm more of a pragmatist, so I'm only fluent in Spanish and English. The Spanish helps me get the gist of most conversations in Italian and French. But that's about it. I took German through High School and was able to use it quite a bit while in Frankfurt and Austria - but that was years ago...
  3. jonathan180iq

    No debate anymore?

    I cannot say that the Universe is definitively an open or closed system anymore than anyone else can. (I actually lean towards it being open...) But whatever effect that might have on our current understanding of physics seems negligible to nonexistent. From our perspective, not matter how...
  4. jonathan180iq

    No debate anymore?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
  5. jonathan180iq

    I'm trying not to be outraged, but...

    I don't know if it's the disheartening response to this current iteration of political discourse, or just my maturity finally flaring up, but I'm becoming very apathetic towards the whole of it all. I'm not outraged by most things, because I recognize them for the fads that they are, even things...
  6. jonathan180iq

    Large Liquid Water Lake Discovered on Mars

    It certainly is. It's also possible that something beyond our comprehension to this point could have evolved out Mars' independent and different primordial cocktail mix. Or nothing at all... Though I do truly doubt that. Awesome info about the hobby. We have quite a bit of property that was...
  7. jonathan180iq

    Large Liquid Water Lake Discovered on Mars

    I mean, it's not beyond the realm of possibility, I guess. It just depends on how long Mars was hot and wet, and what ingredients were around. Warm, shallow seas were a staple here on the early Earth for a ridiculously long period of time. But like with most studies in our Ordovician layers, the...
  8. jonathan180iq

    Large Liquid Water Lake Discovered on Mars

    In my opinion, yes. Mars was warm enough and geologically active for long enough to provide protective and stable environments similar to the early Earth, where life obviously originated because... well, here we are talking to each other. I don't think it progressed very far, mind you. But the...
  9. jonathan180iq

    Large Liquid Water Lake Discovered on Mars

    It's a huge, concurrent habitat. Please discuss. https://physicsworld.com/a/liquid-water-discovered-beneath-mars-south-pole/ http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/07/24/science.aar7268
  10. jonathan180iq

    No debate anymore?

    I have no idea. But I like to think that at some point, when confronted with challenges so many times, that someone, out there somewhere, has at least toyed with the thought of expanding their thinking - even if it's just a little bit. That's why I keep doing it, over and over and over and over...
  11. jonathan180iq

    Why do representatives of religions group together against atheists?

    You haven't been on RF very long, it seems. :) The scenarios you're talking about don't really occur here. It may be perceived to be the other way around sometimes. But I think the skeptics on this site argue with each other just as much, if not more, than we argue with the pious. It's all in...
  12. jonathan180iq

    Roseanne??

    Yes. But I see it as fringe voices being given the cloak of mass protest, when it doesn't actually exist. It's fabricated rage. James Gunn, for example, was fired from a movie series that he created because some hardline conservatives purposefully hunted for copies of his old deleted tweets...
  13. jonathan180iq

    No debate anymore?

    It's mostly meaningless, yes. But it does help to differentiate starting points, particularly with Creationist Christians. It's a conversation that attempts to correct their philosophical basis in arguing to something more palatable and productive. Once you can get them to move off of the...
  14. jonathan180iq

    Everyone has a religion

    "The hot soup is something..." You are absolutely correct - Please note that this is not a claim of something coming from nothing, but of something coming from something. Cool. I'm glad you recognize that we're talking about something coming from something. What does "outside the physical...
  15. jonathan180iq

    Everyone has a religion

    As I stated earlier, I was referring to the Creationist position of the OP. Not all religious thinking. There isn't one. Atheism isn't anything on it's own. You'd have to ask the position of individual Atheists. If you want to know the scientific explanations of origins, there are many. We do...
  16. jonathan180iq

    No debate anymore?

    I don't believe that anyone has ever presented evidence for Nothing as having ever been a state of reality. There has always been Something.
  17. jonathan180iq

    Did Jesus Spend 40 Days in the Desert?

    Without evidence, everything is just wild conjecture.
  18. jonathan180iq

    Roseanne??

    Are we having any conversations about how ridiculous it is to fire people over Tweets from 10 years ago? Or to send professional baseball players to sensitivity training because of things they said when they were 17? Or to fire the lead actress from a show because she made an idiotic remark late...
  19. jonathan180iq

    If god wasnt

    How is that different from being delusional? (I'm not saying you're delusional. I'm asking you to look at your argument from an outside perspective. Apply that reasoning to anything else and see if it works.)
  20. jonathan180iq

    If god wasnt

    You mean "believe in" as in "can rely upon"? Like, I believe in my mother's ability to care for her grandchildren? Sure. If God was objectively good, and we are assuming his existence, then it's an obvious answer, right? If is character was nice... Is kind of the big give away. There's no...
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