A few questions for your consideration :
*Mod*- No, if you want to ask questions you may do so, but you are not going to slap somebodies else's shit on here-aitm
Updated from time to time.
Most of those questions are pretty dumb and have exceptionally simple answers that anyone who takes 5 minutes to really think about them can answer. A handful are complicated but also completely irrelevant and only interesting to scientists, who probably already know the answers, but just consider them not worth the time to share with the whole world, so you can probably get those by sending an email to a scientist in the proper field.
Of course, the most important question is missing on the list: what is any of this going to prove? That atheists don't know everything? That simple fact in the foundation of the reason we do know so much; we're willing to admit when we lack knowledge and then go and look for it instead of filling it in with nonsense.
Seriously, anyone who spends more than a few minutes with this list should start to realise that most of the questions are easily answered, completely irrelevant (and still answered) or just so incredibly vague that no meaningful answer can be given.
Male and female is seen widely in animal life, also in plants. Other forms of sexual diversity-oviparous, viviparous and so on- and some animals change sex as they develop.
The only "habitable planet" is the one we stand on, because we haven't visited others. There are possibly billions
http://www.universetoday.com/100767/cou ... he-galaxy/ (http://www.universetoday.com/100767/could-there-be-100-billion-potentially-habitable-planets-in-the-galaxy/)
There are hundreds of transitional fossils. The number grows daily
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil)
macroevolution has been observed
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... e-lab.html (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html)
The oldest tree is over 5,000 years old, pre Noah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees)
I see we have us a cut and paster here. Ask a question, debate. You won't be here long.
Oh, and by the way- it isn't our job to educate you. If you choose to listen to religious rhetoric and not find out the facts for yourself., you will remain ignorant and deluded. I am a former Christian. Use your free agency and study for yourself.
Quote from: "SHIN KAIRI"A few questions for your consideration :
*Mod*- No, if you want to ask questions you may do so, but you are not going to slap somebodies else's shit on here-aitm
Updated from time to time.
What happened to the questions? I don't see any questions. Did you delete them?
Mod, please be so kind as to put the questions back, for they are my own. That facebook link is mine. This is not plagiarism. Put the link back again please.
Mod deleted them. It was a link to some other guys facebook.
Tsk, you came up with those? You seriously can't answer any of them? Some of those speak of a terrible lack of education and basic knowledge, and others are just a sign of someone desperately trying to justify their own beliefs.
And then some are just nonsense or flat-out wrong.
Shit. I wanted to see the questions!
Well since they're his own, I suppose I could just post them in this here spoiler tag if anyone cares? If not, feel free to mod-delete this.
Warning: most of these are kinda silly.
[spoil:3tb31jcb]1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
3º Why male & female?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
14º Why has macro-evilution never been observed in human history?
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
17º Why do we have dreams?
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
19º What about the population problem with evilution?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
23º Why breath?
24º How do you explain gay people?
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
29º Where did information come from?
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
32º Does reality exist?
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
34º Why is man stronger than female?
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
37º How do you explain mathematics?
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
41º Why the necessity for food?
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
43º Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
44º How did blind chemistry create mind, intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
45º How do 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years(horseshoe crab)?
46º Why rainbows?
47º Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists "know" that they were not designed?
48º Why is the sky blue?
49º How could something come from nothing?
50º Why is the human skin colour only dust/earth like?
51º How do you explain the miracle of mathematics?
52º Where did the laws that regulate our universe come from?
53º Why are all snowflakes different from each other? Why do they all have the shape of a 6 branch star?
54º Why is the universe so complex?
55º Why are the laws of physics infinitely precise?
56º Why is there something instead of nothing?
57º How do you explain energy?
58º Why do desert tortoises still hear better underwater?
59º Why the need to sleep?
60º Where does the idea of a 7 day week come from if not from Genesis?
61º What about the fine structure constant value that is : 1/137.035999679?
62º Who decides when & where each person is born?[/spoil:3tb31jcb]
Ok, I got tired reading them.
Why is evolution taught as a science? Cause it is.
How do I explain gay people?
Someone has to do the decorating.
Okay, seriously, what makes you think we have dominion over animals, and that animals don't know right from wrong? I will disagree with you fundamentally.
Quote from: "Plu"Well since they're his own, I suppose I could just post them in this here spoiler tag if anyone cares? If not, feel free to mod-delete this.
Warning: most of these are kinda silly.
[spoil:1ejds8wo]1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
3º Why male & female?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
14º Why has macro-evilution never been observed in human history?
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
17º Why do we have dreams?
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
19º What about the population problem with evilution?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
23º Why breath?
24º How do you explain gay people?
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
29º Where did information come from?
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
32º Does reality exist?
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
34º Why is man stronger than female?
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
37º How do you explain mathematics?
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
41º Why the necessity for food?
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
43º Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
44º How did blind chemistry create mind, intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
45º How do 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years(horseshoe crab)?
46º Why rainbows?
47º Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists "know" that they were not designed?
48º Why is the sky blue?
49º How could something come from nothing?
50º Why is the human skin colour only dust/earth like?
51º How do you explain the miracle of mathematics?
52º Where did the laws that regulate our universe come from?
53º Why are all snowflakes different from each other? Why do they all have the shape of a 6 branch star?
54º Why is the universe so complex?
55º Why are the laws of physics infinitely precise?
56º Why is there something instead of nothing?
57º How do you explain energy?
58º Why do desert tortoises still hear better underwater?
59º Why the need to sleep?
60º Where does the idea of a 7 day week come from if not from Genesis?
61º What about the fine structure constant value that is : 1/137.035999679?
62º Who decides when & where each person is born?[/spoil:1ejds8wo]
Yep, silly questions. Mostly just arguments from ignorance. For those that are easy to answer, I'm guessing SHIN thinks they're significant on the grounds that he can't answer them. But that's his problem. A little learning on his part could fix that.
Quote from: "Mermaid"Ok, I got tired reading them.
Yeah.
Something to think about, SHIN: Ignorance, whether on the part of an atheist or a believer, doesn't prove anything. I doesn't even suggest anything. It's not evidence for anything. It's just ignorance.
Quote from: "SGOS"Quote from: "Plu"Well since they're his own, I suppose I could just post them in this here spoiler tag if anyone cares? If not, feel free to mod-delete this.
Warning: most of these are kinda silly.
[spoil:koukw1ji]1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
3º Why male & female?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
14º Why has macro-evilution never been observed in human history?
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
17º Why do we have dreams?
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
19º What about the population problem with evilution?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
23º Why breath?
24º How do you explain gay people?
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
29º Where did information come from?
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
32º Does reality exist?
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
34º Why is man stronger than female?
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
37º How do you explain mathematics?
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
41º Why the necessity for food?
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
43º Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
44º How did blind chemistry create mind, intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
45º How do 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years(horseshoe crab)?
46º Why rainbows?
47º Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists "know" that they were not designed?
48º Why is the sky blue?
49º How could something come from nothing?
50º Why is the human skin colour only dust/earth like?
51º How do you explain the miracle of mathematics?
52º Where did the laws that regulate our universe come from?
53º Why are all snowflakes different from each other? Why do they all have the shape of a 6 branch star?
54º Why is the universe so complex?
55º Why are the laws of physics infinitely precise?
56º Why is there something instead of nothing?
57º How do you explain energy?
58º Why do desert tortoises still hear better underwater?
59º Why the need to sleep?
60º Where does the idea of a 7 day week come from if not from Genesis?
61º What about the fine structure constant value that is : 1/137.035999679?
62º Who decides when & where each person is born?[/spoil:koukw1ji]
Yep, silly questions. Mostly just arguments from ignorance. For those that are easy to answer, I'm guessing SHIN thinks they're significant on the grounds that he can't answer them. But that's his problem. A little learning on his part could fix that.
That was, undoubtedly, the single dumbest thing I've read this year--but the year is still young.
Many of the questions can be answered with a quick google search. Kid is not trying.
Quote from: "stromboli"Many of the questions can be answered with a quick google search. Kid is not trying.
Or by growing the fuck up.
Quote from: "Plu"Well since they're his own, I suppose I could just post them in this here spoiler tag if anyone cares? If not, feel free to mod-delete this.
Warning: most of these are kinda silly.
[spoil:1y1me909]1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
3º Why male & female?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
14º Why has macro-evilution never been observed in human history?
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
17º Why do we have dreams?
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
19º What about the population problem with evilution?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
23º Why breath?
24º How do you explain gay people?
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
29º Where did information come from?
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
32º Does reality exist?
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
34º Why is man stronger than female?
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
37º How do you explain mathematics?
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
41º Why the necessity for food?
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
43º Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
44º How did blind chemistry create mind, intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
45º How do 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years(horseshoe crab)?
46º Why rainbows?
47º Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists "know" that they were not designed?
48º Why is the sky blue?
49º How could something come from nothing?
50º Why is the human skin colour only dust/earth like?
51º How do you explain the miracle of mathematics?
52º Where did the laws that regulate our universe come from?
53º Why are all snowflakes different from each other? Why do they all have the shape of a 6 branch star?
54º Why is the universe so complex?
55º Why are the laws of physics infinitely precise?
56º Why is there something instead of nothing?
57º How do you explain energy?
58º Why do desert tortoises still hear better underwater?
59º Why the need to sleep?
60º Where does the idea of a 7 day week come from if not from Genesis?
61º What about the fine structure constant value that is : 1/137.035999679?
62º Who decides when & where each person is born?[/spoil:1y1me909]
Most are questions that have been answered by people who didn't say "God did it." Have you thanked a scientist today?
Scientists? They're all crazy.
Is this a drive-by trolling? I see the guy hasn't been back to talk about this.
In case the OP comes back, many of your questions can be answered at www.talkorigins.org (http://www.talkorigins.org).
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"In case the OP comes back, many of your questions can be answered at http://www.talkorigins.org (http://www.talkorigins.org).
Yes, but why can talkorigins.org answer these questions and not some other website?
https://www.google.com/search?q=you+can ... 15&bih=914 (https://www.google.com/search?q=you+can't+answer+that+bill+o'reilly&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Of1EUc69M4OTyQH80IGYAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1015&bih=914#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=you+can%27t+explain+that+bill+o%27reilly&oq=you+can%27t+explain+that+bill+o%27reilly&gs_l=img.3..0i24.3755.5896.0.6518.13.13.0.0.0.0.93.881.13.13.0...0.0...1c.1.6.img.UYOBN0JH73M&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43828540,d.aWc&fp=435b151faf73212&biw=1015&bih=914)
:lol:
hahahah
QuoteDoes reality exist?
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I'll bite. I've got some time to spare hahaha
Quote1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
- No
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
- I don't know, maybe the daisy pixies make it so
3º Why male & female?
- Why not Zoidberg?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
- Well, there's obviously been 217 other Poloniums and that is the 218th one
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
- Because we wouldn't have the words good and evil etc, duh
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
- Because the first human thought to themselves "well I guess we have to make morality now lol"
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
- Why not?
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
- Because there can be only one!
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
- 42
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
- Because breasts are great! I have to say, I'm only attracted to women so I couldn't truly comment on being attracted to the opposite sex
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
- We don't
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
- Because nobody knows what "beneficial information" means?
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
- Because that's the way chemistry works? We're still atoms anyway...
14º Why has macro-evolution never been observed in human history?
- It has
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
- It isn't
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
- All over the place. In museums, in labs, in rocks, up your ass, you name it
17º Why do we have dreams?
- Because the dream fairy wants us to be entertained while we sleep
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
-Yes
19º What about the population problem with evolution?
- What population problem?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
- I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
- Because it is in our nature to inquire, to formulate an answer to everything, a meaning for everything?
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
- I don't know, ask a mathematician, maybe?
23º Why breath?
- Dragon's Breath?
24º How do you explain gay people?
- Chemistry, to put it simply.
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
- I dunno, maybe you were too rough?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
- Magic
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
- Because they were never expected in the first place?
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
- What mathematical impossibility?
29º Where did information come from?
- God's first ever annual poll?
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
- Certainly not from you, or whoever made these questions
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
- It's a miracle? Well, that's news to me
32º Does reality exist?
- I don't know. Does it? Or does it not? That is the question...
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
- Because the nasty atheist man told me my invisible friend wasn't real, I guess
34º Why is man stronger than female?
- In general terms? It's to do with body structure and hormones, you know, sciencey stuff you wouldn't understand
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
- They are?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
- Because that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it, uh huh uh huh
37º How do you explain mathematics?
- 42
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
- I'm sorry, what?
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
- Child indoctrination? Cultural conformity?
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
-If Americans came from Europe, why are Europeans still here?
41º Why the necessity for food?
- Because we require energy? Because bacon tastes divine?
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
- Because its not a fundamentally religious, dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence? Because its pretty accurate?
43º Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
- What does this question even mean?
44º How did blind chemistry create mind, intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
- Again, magic, of course
45º How do 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years(horseshoe crab)?
- Because they don't want to change? They're fine as they are?
46º Why rainbows?
- A pot of gold has to be put somewhere, right?
47º Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists "know" that they were not designed?
- Because there's no manufacturer's label?
48º Why is the sky blue?
- It's all the microscopic blue magic motes floating around
49º How could something come from nothing?
- It did?
50º Why is the human skin colour only dust/earth like?
- It is?
51º How do you explain the miracle of mathematics?
- Maths is a miracle now, too? Boy, there's lots of new miracles going around. Is Miracle Max at it again?
52º Where did the laws that regulate our universe come from?
- I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
53º Why are all snowflakes different from each other? Why do they all have the shape of a 6 branch star?
- The Grand Prefect of Snowflake Production doesn't like copies?
54º Why is the universe so complex?
- Why is this question so meaningless?
55º Why are the laws of physics infinitely precise?
- Because the Grand Prefect of Physical Law Precision is good at his job
56º Why is there something instead of nothing?
- Because nothing would be boring
57º How do you explain energy?
- I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
58º Why do desert tortoises still hear better underwater?
- Again, I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
59º Why the need to sleep?
- Because being tired is bleh
60º Where does the idea of a 7 day week come from if not from Genesis?
- I don't know, ask a scholar, maybe?
61º What about the fine structure constant value that is : 1/137.035999679?
- I'm sorry, what?
62º Who decides when & where each person is born?
- Nobody, as far as I know. But the Grand Prefect of Deciding When And Where Each Person Is Born might be a good guess
Hope I answered some of your questions for you!! :3
A wall of questions based on ignorance is not going to get you many answers is it?
Try a simple one that may give you insight to others opinions and experience.
Like:
With the fabrication of thousands of deities, why do you think yours is true?
Can you provide supporting proof and evidence for that?
There is two simple questions for you. Will you answer them?
Quote from: "Teaspoon Shallow"There is two simple questions for you. Will you answer them?
He'll probably respond to them, but not with answers.
Shin, you need to do some reading up on the concept of Argument from Ignorance.
"I don't understand X, therefore God" is a logical fallacy, and that's all your questions really add up to. There are thousands of such 'proofs' being repeated in the Christian world, but there's a serious problem with this line of reasoning (aside from the whole "logical fallacy" thing, that is) - over the past couple of centuries, theists have trotted out all sorts of "science cannot answer this, therefore god" arguments, only to have their argument refuted when science discovered the answers to these previously unknown areas of reality. Oddly enough, instead of saying "huh, well I guess I was wrong," the typical Christian response has been either to drop the question and pretend they never asked, or to ignore the answer and keep pretending the question has not been answered.
Examples:
"Where are the transitional fossils?" Um - everywhere.
"If whales evolved from land-dwelling mammals, how come we don't have the fossil record of their evolution?" Because we weren't looking in the right place. Recently a treasure-trove of fossils has been uncovered, which spell out cetacean evolution in remarkable detail. But this new discovery has had no impact whatsoever on those who framed the question, because the point of an Argument from Ignorance is not to make a point, but to attempt to discredit the opposition.
Quote from: "Davka""If whales evolved from land-dwelling mammals, how come we don't have the fossil record of their evolution?" Because we weren't looking in the right place. Recently a treasure-trove of fossils has been uncovered, which spell out cetacean evolution in remarkable detail. But this new discovery has had no impact whatsoever on those who framed the question, because the point of an Argument from Ignorance is not to make a point, but to attempt to discredit the opposition.
Which is all Shin's questions are - attempts not to get answers, but attempts to discredit lack of belief - even though some of them are phrased in such a way that there can't be an answer for them.
Just re-read Rins answers. =D> =D> =D>
I did have a belly laugh at some of them.
Quote from: "Rin Hato"I'll bite. I've got some time to spare hahaha
Quote1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
- No
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
- I don't know, maybe the daisy pixies make it so
3º Why male & female?
- Why not Zoidberg?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
- Well, there's obviously been 217 other Poloniums and that is the 218th one
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
- Because we wouldn't have the words good and evil etc, duh
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
- Because the first human thought to themselves "well I guess we have to make morality now lol"
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
- Why not?
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
- Because there can be only one!
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
- 42
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
- Because breasts are great! I have to say, I'm only attracted to women so I couldn't truly comment on being attracted to the opposite sex
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
- We don't
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
- Because nobody knows what "beneficial information" means?
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
- Because that's the way chemistry works? We're still atoms anyway...
14º Why has macro-evolution never been observed in human history?
- It has
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
- It isn't
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
- All over the place. In museums, in labs, in rocks, up your ass, you name it
17º Why do we have dreams?
- Because the dream fairy wants us to be entertained while we sleep
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
-Yes
19º What about the population problem with evolution?
- What population problem?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
- I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
- Because it is in our nature to inquire, to formulate an answer to everything, a meaning for everything?
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
- I don't know, ask a mathematician, maybe?
23º Why breath?
- Dragon's Breath?
24º How do you explain gay people?
- Chemistry, to put it simply.
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
- I dunno, maybe you were too rough?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
- Magic
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
- Because they were never expected in the first place?
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
- What mathematical impossibility?
29º Where did information come from?
- God's first ever annual poll?
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
- Certainly not from you, or whoever made these questions
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
- It's a miracle? Well, that's news to me
32º Does reality exist?
- I don't know. Does it? Or does it not? That is the question...
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
- Because the nasty atheist man told me my invisible friend wasn't real, I guess
34º Why is man stronger than female?
- In general terms? It's to do with body structure and hormones, you know, sciencey stuff you wouldn't understand
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
- They are?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
- Because that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it, uh huh uh huh
37º How do you explain mathematics?
- 42
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
- I'm sorry, what?
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
- Child indoctrination? Cultural conformity?
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
-If Americans came from Europe, why are Europeans still here?
41º Why the necessity for food?
- Because we require energy? Because bacon tastes divine?
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
- Because its not a fundamentally religious, dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence? Because its pretty accurate?
43º Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?
- What does this question even mean?
44º How did blind chemistry create mind, intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
- Again, magic, of course
45º How do 'living fossils' remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years(horseshoe crab)?
- Because they don't want to change? They're fine as they are?
46º Why rainbows?
- A pot of gold has to be put somewhere, right?
47º Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists "know" that they were not designed?
- Because there's no manufacturer's label?
48º Why is the sky blue?
- It's all the microscopic blue magic motes floating around
49º How could something come from nothing?
- It did?
50º Why is the human skin colour only dust/earth like?
- It is?
51º How do you explain the miracle of mathematics?
- Maths is a miracle now, too? Boy, there's lots of new miracles going around. Is Miracle Max at it again?
52º Where did the laws that regulate our universe come from?
- I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
53º Why are all snowflakes different from each other? Why do they all have the shape of a 6 branch star?
- The Grand Prefect of Snowflake Production doesn't like copies?
54º Why is the universe so complex?
- Why is this question so meaningless?
55º Why are the laws of physics infinitely precise?
- Because the Grand Prefect of Physical Law Precision is good at his job
56º Why is there something instead of nothing?
- Because nothing would be boring
57º How do you explain energy?
- I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
58º Why do desert tortoises still hear better underwater?
- Again, I don't know, ask a scientist, maybe?
59º Why the need to sleep?
- Because being tired is bleh
60º Where does the idea of a 7 day week come from if not from Genesis?
- I don't know, ask a scholar, maybe?
61º What about the fine structure constant value that is : 1/137.035999679?
- I'm sorry, what?
62º Who decides when & where each person is born?
- Nobody, as far as I know. But the Grand Prefect of Deciding When And Where Each Person Is Born might be a good guess
Hope I answered some of your questions for you!! :3
=D> :popcorn:
Quote from: "SHIN KAIRI"Mod, please be so kind as to put the questions back, for they are my own. That facebook link is mine. This is not plagiarism. Put the link back again please.
Are some of those questions you pose actual questions you don't know the answer to? Like ' why rainbows'?
Really? :Hangman:
Quote from: "Fidel_Castronaut"Quote from: "SHIN KAIRI"Mod, please be so kind as to put the questions back, for they are my own. That facebook link is mine. This is not plagiarism. Put the link back again please.
Are some of those questions you pose actual questions you don't know the answer to? Like ' why rainbows'?
Really? :Hangman:
I know, right? Rainbows obviously exist to prove the existence of unicorns.
Oh, wait.
Most of these are really silly indeed, but I'll actually be a good sport and answer them just in case he's genuinly ignorant and not a troll.
1º Do you refute the law of the conservation of energy?
Do I have any reason to?
2º Why can a daisy have 5, 8 or 13 petals but never 10 or 11?
Ask someone who cares and/or studies that shit
3º Why male & female?
Why what?
4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
What's to explain? Ask a scientist.
5º Why right & wrong/good & evil?
Because animals construct rules to survive, usually based on some in-born empathy. These concepts are of course 100% relative.
6º How do you explain emotions & consciousness/why didn't we remain like the animals(unable to choose right from wrong)?
We are animals and quite a few other animals have moral systems as well. The simplest answer is evolution. Animals with this trait were more likely to reproduce.
7º Why the ability to reproduce?
Evolution
8º Why is there only one habitable planet?
We don't know that. But if we are, terrible design maybe?
9º How do you explain the sequence specificity in DNA?
Evolution
10º Why are the opposite sexes attracted to each other?
Evolution
11º Why do we have dominion over animals?
Evolution
12º Why can no example be given for a single genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the beneficial information in the genome?
Incorrect. Do research!
13º Why life/why didn't we remain atoms or rocks or whatever...?
We? Anyhow, at some point there was an abiogenesis (which is not connected to evolution btw). We have proven possible causes, i.e. how this could happen - but showing that something could happen a certain way doesn't mean that it did happen that way so we still don't know for sure what caused the abiogenesis and how it worked.
14º Why has macro-evilution never been observed in human history?
IT HAS. LOL!
15º Why is the oldest tree around 4000 years old(coinciding with the flood)?
Incorrect. LOL.
16º Where are all the transitional fossils from the millions & billions & gazillions of animals & humans that had to supposedly evolve over millions & billions & gazillions of years?
Museums and labs. Check them out sometime. ;)
17º Why do we have dreams?
The brain does shit
18º Can someone document just one 100% verifiable transitionary fossil that proves that one species actually changed into another completely different species?
Just one would be useless, but how about a few thousand showing the exact transition?
19º What about the population problem with evilution?
Huh?
20º How did new biochemical pathways(which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence) originate?
Ask a scientist
21º Why do all humans, at least one time in their life, wonder about a supreme being?
Because religions are desperately trying to sell their product? We also have pattern seeking brains that adapted to surviving tigers not thinking about the universe - so sometimes we fuck up the logic there.
22º How do you explain the Fibonacci sequence, the number "e" & the number Pi?
Eh ... Why?
23º Why breath?
Why not?
24º How do you explain gay people?
Gay men get it from their mother's genes, we're not sure about the lesbians yet
25º Why do all women bleed on their 1rst sexual relation?
Seriously?
26º How could mutations create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
Eh ...
27º Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
They are? Did they disappear over night??? OMG. CALL THE POLICE!!!
28º What about the mathematical impossibility for evolution?
Huh?
29º Where did information come from?
How do you define information? Simple answer: Existence and conciousness capable of processing it.
30º Where do we get intelligence from?
Our brains???
31º How do you explain the miracle of language?
Evolution, intelligence, improved communication, evolution of communication
32º Does reality exist?
By definition I'd say:
[spoil:4q78onr5]yes[spoil]probably[/spoil:4q78onr5][/spoil]
33º Why does water come from our eyes when we cry? Why do humans cry?
Do you really want to know? Somehow I doubt it
34º Why is man stronger than female?
This is not the case throughout the animal kingdom. However, the reason this is the case with humans is:
[spoil:4q78onr5]EVOLUTION[/spoil:4q78onr5]
35º How come the sun & the moon are perfectly placed in our solar system?
Gravity?
36º Why does sex feel so good?
Evolution :wink:
37º How do you explain mathematics?
Humans wanted to calculate shit.
38º How do you explain the odds of combinatorial space?
Do I really have to? If this genuinly interests you do a quick google search FFS
39º How do you explain the jewish people that still exist today?
Jews fucked? Some were converted.
40º If we came from monkeys, why are they still here?
They're not. Let's rephrase the question to show you how dumb it is:
If we came from mammals why are there still mammals?
or better:
If seagulls came from birds, why are there still birds?
41º Why the necessity for food?
We need energy
42º Why is evolution, a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
DAMN IT. You are a troll. God damn it. Ok, I won't do anymore of these. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"Quote from: "Fidel_Castronaut"Quote from: "SHIN KAIRI"Mod, please be so kind as to put the questions back, for they are my own. That facebook link is mine. This is not plagiarism. Put the link back again please.
Are some of those questions you pose actual questions you don't know the answer to? Like ' why rainbows'?
Really? :Hangman:
I know, right? Rainbows obviously exist to prove the existence of unicorns.
Oh, wait.
Exactly. I can't believe someone wouldn't know that? I wonder where he was educated and brought up?
The question-framing is just ridiculous. Number 6 especially amazes me. Remaining like other animals? "Unable to choose right from wrong?" What makes you think people can choose right from wrong in different ways than animals? It's all a deterministic process of learning that stems from genes, positive/negative reinforcement, punishment, life experiences and a myriad of such factors that influence the choices all living organisms make. You start off with a presupposition that humans are uniquely different from automatons, likely because it merely feels that way to you, and are framing the question for people who may not even agree with it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's no fundamental difference between human choices and animal choices. Any variety that would lead someone to think of free will is simply a result of chaos theory which is obviously quite amplified in humans due to vastly different geographical locations and upbringing. Those are the external factors, to name a few, that lead to such differences in choices. But considering the other questions, I highly doubt any of this will actually make sense to him.
Has anyone figured out WHY RAINBOWS YET!? I CAN'T SLEEP!
Quote from: "Mermaid"Has anyone figured out WHY RAINBOWS YET!? I CAN'T SLEEP!
Here ya go!:
Premise 1: The Bible says that Rainbows exist.
Premise 2: Rainbows
actually exist.
Conclusion: Therefore the Bible is true.
CHECKMATE atheists!!11 :D
:lol:
OMG enough already..@@@
Rainbows appear when raindrops (similar to a prism) reflect sunlight, thus breaking white sunlight into colors.
How is light reflected to create rainbows?
As light enters a water droplet, the different wavelength colors bend at slightly separate angles. Some of this light reflects off the back of the droplet and is bent a second time as the droplet emerges from the light beam. Drops at different angles send distinctively different colors to the eye.
If light is hitting raindrops at a proper angle, a secondary, larger rainbow will appear outside of the main rainbow. This secondary rainbow is fainter in color than the main one because the light has been reflected twice by each raindrop. This double reflection also reverses the colors in the secondary rainbow.
To see a rainbow, an observer must have her back to the sun and rain must be falling in some part of the sky. Since each raindrop is lit by the white light of the sun, a spectrum of colors is produced.
No two observers will ever witness exactly the same rainbow because each will view a different set of drops at a slightly different angle. Also, each color seen is from different raindrops.
Crikey...!!!! :Hangman:
Quote from: "mnmelt"OMG enough already..@@@
Rainbows appear when raindrops (similar to a prism) reflect sunlight, thus breaking white sunlight into colors.
How is light reflected to create rainbows?
As light enters a water droplet, the different wavelength colors bend at slightly separate angles. Some of this light reflects off the back of the droplet and is bent a second time as the droplet emerges from the light beam. Drops at different angles send distinctively different colors to the eye.
If light is hitting raindrops at a proper angle, a secondary, larger rainbow will appear outside of the main rainbow. This secondary rainbow is fainter in color than the main one because the light has been reflected twice by each raindrop. This double reflection also reverses the colors in the secondary rainbow.
To see a rainbow, an observer must have her back to the sun and rain must be falling in some part of the sky. Since each raindrop is lit by the white light of the sun, a spectrum of colors is produced.
No two observers will ever witness exactly the same rainbow because each will view a different set of drops at a slightly different angle. Also, each color seen is from different raindrops.
Crikey...!!!! :Hangman:
BULLSHIT!
Rainbows form because the goddamn leprechauns needed an inconspicuous hiding place, and rainbows are inconspicuous as fuck.
BS X2!!!!!
Leprechauns needed a place to put a pot of gold, I told you before!
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Quote from: "Rin Hato"BS X2!!!!!
Leprechauns needed a place to put a pot of gold, I told you before!
BS X3
Miracles...or something.
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While we're at it, can we get a suggestions thread?
Quote from: "TheDevoutPasta"Quote from: "mnmelt"OMG enough already..@@@
Rainbows appear when raindrops (similar to a prism) reflect sunlight, thus breaking white sunlight into colors.
How is light reflected to create rainbows?
As light enters a water droplet, the different wavelength colors bend at slightly separate angles. Some of this light reflects off the back of the droplet and is bent a second time as the droplet emerges from the light beam. Drops at different angles send distinctively different colors to the eye.
If light is hitting raindrops at a proper angle, a secondary, larger rainbow will appear outside of the main rainbow. This secondary rainbow is fainter in color than the main one because the light has been reflected twice by each raindrop. This double reflection also reverses the colors in the secondary rainbow.
To see a rainbow, an observer must have her back to the sun and rain must be falling in some part of the sky. Since each raindrop is lit by the white light of the sun, a spectrum of colors is produced.
No two observers will ever witness exactly the same rainbow because each will view a different set of drops at a slightly different angle. Also, each color seen is from different raindrops.
Crikey...!!!! :Hangman:
BULLSHIT!
Rainbows form because the goddamn leprechauns needed an inconspicuous hiding place, and rainbows are inconspicuous as fuck.
Now we're finally getting somewhere with this
great question.
It's not like you can artificially replicate a rainbow in the spray of a waterfall
[spoil:2fffhyru](//http://i49.tinypic.com/359h8qd.jpg)[/spoil:2fffhyru]
or with your hose in the backyard on a sunny day.
[spoil:2fffhyru](//http://innerchildfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/makearainbow2.jpg)[/spoil:2fffhyru]
Quote from: "BarkAtTheMoon"Quote from: "TheDevoutPasta"Quote from: "mnmelt"OMG enough already..@@@
Rainbows appear when raindrops (similar to a prism) reflect sunlight, thus breaking white sunlight into colors.
How is light reflected to create rainbows?
As light enters a water droplet, the different wavelength colors bend at slightly separate angles. Some of this light reflects off the back of the droplet and is bent a second time as the droplet emerges from the light beam. Drops at different angles send distinctively different colors to the eye.
If light is hitting raindrops at a proper angle, a secondary, larger rainbow will appear outside of the main rainbow. This secondary rainbow is fainter in color than the main one because the light has been reflected twice by each raindrop. This double reflection also reverses the colors in the secondary rainbow.
To see a rainbow, an observer must have her back to the sun and rain must be falling in some part of the sky. Since each raindrop is lit by the white light of the sun, a spectrum of colors is produced.
No two observers will ever witness exactly the same rainbow because each will view a different set of drops at a slightly different angle. Also, each color seen is from different raindrops.
Crikey...!!!! :Hangman:
BULLSHIT!
Rainbows form because the goddamn leprechauns needed an inconspicuous hiding place, and rainbows are inconspicuous as fuck.
Now we're finally getting somewhere with this great question.
It's not like you can artificially replicate a rainbow in the spray of a waterfall
[spoil:19j0sykn][ Image (//http://i49.tinypic.com/359h8qd.jpg) ][/spoil:19j0sykn]
or with your hose in the backyard on a sunny day.
[spoil:19j0sykn][ Image (//http://innerchildfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/makearainbow2.jpg) ][/spoil:19j0sykn]
Seems like a week since I've looked at this thread. I'm happy to see you guys are taking this rainbow controversy seriously. :-D
Quote from: "SGOS"Seems like a week since I've looked at this thread. I'm happy to see you guys are taking this rainbow controversy seriously. :-D
:lol: It's more interesting than the OP was.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130327.html (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130327.html)
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Quote from: "La Dolce Vita"Most of these are really silly indeed, but I'll actually be a good sport and answer them just in case he's genuinly ignorant and not a troll.
I'm going with genuinely ignorant AND a troll.
Quote4º How do you explain Polonium 218?
What's to explain? Ask a scientist.
If I had to make a guess, I would say he is referring to the 'Polonium 218 halos' that some creationists claim are evidence of a young earth.
I doubt he even knows what his own question means, though. It is just a creationist buzzword.