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  1. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    I would say that time to arrival is a meaningless question for the photon since time and distance don't exist like we experience it.
  2. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    Hopefully it is close enough so that @TrueBeliever37 can stick some numbers in and experiment a bit.
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    What Causes or Motivates the Anti-scientists?

    If they are taught the basics of molecular biology and genetics then that is about 160 years worth of science, starting with Mendel, continuing on through Watson and Crick, and continuing on through the people who discovered how ribosomes, tRNA, mRNA, and gene promoters work. Molecular...
  4. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    Details . . . details. ;) Thanks for the correction!
  5. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    Assuming they don't change velocity, yes. However, what you measure as 30 million ly from Earth would be 26 light years for the ship. 15 light years from Earth would be 13 ly for the ship. I found a handy online calculator that does the math for you, if you are interested: Length Contraction...
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    What Causes or Motivates the Anti-scientists?

    I am not the one claiming that 9th graders should repeat all of the science that has been done for the last 200 years without any lectures. Right. And that preparation should include lectures that teach children the knowledge they will need to know later in life. That's what education is...
  7. Thermos aquaticus

    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    Does something inspired by god have to be scientifically accurate?
  8. Thermos aquaticus

    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    Then I guess I never really learned anything from the book "Animal Farm" because it was clearly not scientifically accurate.
  9. Thermos aquaticus

    What Causes or Motivates the Anti-scientists?

    But you are saying that they should do their own research which would necessarily entail reading peer reviewed papers. As soon as you summarize the research then you are not letting them do the research. Teaching kids the background knowledge they need to understand science necessarily...
  10. Thermos aquaticus

    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    What I am saying is that wisdom can be independent of scientific accuracy.
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    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    What you are saying is that Aesop's Fables don't hold any wisdom because animals don't talk. You are saying that the scientific inaccuracies of Aesop's Fables proves them wrong.
  12. Thermos aquaticus

    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    Do you expect scientific accuracy from a Star Trek episode?
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    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    Off the top of my head, a theory of creation would need to explain: 1. The geographic distribution of species. 2. The temporal distribution of fossil species in the geologic record. 3. The correlation between the independent phylogenies of morphology and genetics. 4. Differences in...
  14. Thermos aquaticus

    What Causes or Motivates the Anti-scientists?

    I agree. However, 9th graders have no idea where to start.
  15. Thermos aquaticus

    YouTuber claims we'll never see another Democrat elected president

    Peterson and Harris speak all of the time. No one is stopping them from speaking. You can freely buy their books, buy their tapes, see them on Youtube . . . Surely people also have the right to choose who speaks at their facility, don't they?
  16. Thermos aquaticus

    YouTuber claims we'll never see another Democrat elected president

    But you said that Democrats are out of touch with Americans because they don't get as many votes from rural areas. That insinuates that urban areas don't have Americans in them.
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    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    Since the Bible was written by ancient peoples, this isn't surprising. I am an atheist, so I tend to agree with the concept of God forgoing the need of imperfect messengers. However, I also don't see how a lack of scientific accuracy necessarily disproves the Bible being inspired by God. Or...
  18. Thermos aquaticus

    Pretty simple thought experiment on these family separations

    I don't see how separating children from their parents helps in differentiating between the good people and the bad people.
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    How we know that there was no Flood of Noah.

    The entire point is that Egyptian culture and pyramid building went on uninterrupted through the time when everyone except for a single family was supposedly wiped out in a global flood. Egyptian culture and history is uninterrupted by any such event, as are multiple civilizations who existed...
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    How we know that there was no Flood of Noah.

    Mesopotamian culture was based in the Fertile Crescent, and the fertility of that region is tied closely to the floods that bring in rich topsoil. It was a culture that lived on a flood plain and would have gone through many floods, so it isn't that surprising that they have flood myths. I...
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