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E = mc^jesus

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A pretty serious Brains although he couldn't see so good, or so it is said, which comes in handy if you're a six feet four nerdy goofball and all skin and bones who couldn't pot the black off its spot more than once in fifty and has been bred up down the AIDser's line.

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I respect him as an author, but I'm surprised that you say he came up with this ridiculous thesis:

Aldous Huxley

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On religion: "You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion... Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."

I'm not trying to crush your spirits or anything, but if you're keen on proving the existence of God, you better look someplace else. I suspect you'll be looking for a long time.

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That depends on where you look.

It isn't maths and that's for sure. Or Aldous Huxley.

Frank Harris is what you need.

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boomerang wrote:

When does a theory stop being a theory? Does it ever? Is gravity still a theory?

No, it never stops being a theory, and yes, gravity is still called a theory in physics textbooks. So is wave optics, aerodynamics, and other scientific findings we trust enough to bet our lives on. Daily.

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From what I have seen Thomas I would advise you to avoid betting.

Even with small amounts.

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NickFun wrote:

Someday an apple may fall from a tree and go up! We can't discount that possibility.

Good point Nick. Well it only went "down" because of the coordinate frame newton chose. It actually went "towards" the largest mass closest to it's initial position. The vector for "down" when placed on the other side of the earth is the the vector for "up."

So nerdy...

The optimist says the cup is half full
The pessimist says the cup is half empty

The engineer says the cup was designed exact twice as large as it needed to be.
K
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The optimist says the cup is half full
The pessimist says the cup is half empty

The engineer says the cup was designed exact twice as large as it needed to be.
K
O

The Alcoholic say 'stick the cup up your arse and give me the friggin
bottle' hick'''o0..

I wonder what the creationist would say..... then again I probably wouldn't care

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Re: boomerang (Post 3194233)

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So is intelligent design a theory or a hypothesis?

I think you need to make a distinction between a "scientific" theory and a theory in general.

Science has certain rules, and scientific theories need to meet those rules. Theories outside of science are not bound by any rules and can take on ANY form.

ID is a theory, just as "I'm asleep and this is all a dream" is a theory. Both of those theories are equally valid as theories, but neither one is a valid "scientific" theory.

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Re: rosborne979 (Post 3371982)

ros wrote-

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ID is a theory, just as "I'm asleep and this is all a dream" is a theory. Both of those theories are equally valid as theories, but neither one is a valid "scientific" theory.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty
I woke and found that life was duty:

Ellen Sturgis Hoopers.

Tell us ros what the duties are. It would be scientific to say that certain accepted duties led to a certain style of social organisation.

You're being superficial as usual. You have no reading. All you have are easy to do banalities. Are you habituated to a captive audience of inferior people?

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