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So which is less plausible - that Et's have no clue about liquid water, despite the fact that water is relatively abundant in the universe, or Jeff Goldblum creating a computer virus on a desktop computer than can bring down alien force fields?

I agree 100 percent! But that leads back to the basis of my whole view on the subject - if there is no way for us to know it, then why take a stance in one's life one way or the other? If I said that our universe is nothing more than a dream of some higher being who exits on an alternate plane...

Here is the poll question: Do you believe an intelligent agent was involved in the creation of the universe? You are asking people IF they believe, and my response was simply that the poll questions needed more options in my own case becuase my response is essentially: I can neither believe...

Well, yes that's the whole point. If there is no way for you to demonstrate it to me aside from asking me to believe it, then that is no different than any other assertion that is unfalsifable. There is no way to verify it outside of individual experience. And if no one else can verify it, then...

I want a fifth option on the poll: I TAKE NO STAND EITHER WAY BECAUSE THE ENTIRE IDEA IS UNPROVEABLE, UNTESTABLE, AND UNKNOWEABLE. I guess I'm athiest by default because I refuse to believe in a particular something which is far beyond my means and ability to evaluate. We really have no clue...

LOL I'd hardly qualify as "hard right" by the real hard right.. I'm pro-abortion rights, I'm an athiest, I'm for all forms of stem cell research, and I'm neutral on gay marriage (neither expresssly for or against - it's a state's rights isse IMO), I'm pro-alternative fuels, I'm against the Iraq...

>> Also what does Biden have to say for Himself ? Do they keep him locked up in a wardrobe covered up in a Blanket do they just wheel him out on cue ? Biden is a gaffe machine. Every time he speaks he sticks his foot in his mouth and speaks his mind, which may be endearing and refreshing to...

Well, she's the only one of the three (McCain, Obama, Biden) that has ANY executive experience running something besides a campaign. Obama's experience? Community organizer. McCain and Biden? Decades in Washington spending our money and making laws. Palin's? State Govenor and town mayor...

The LHC pumps an ENORMOUS amount of energy into getting a tiny amount of protons to that speed. In fact if you used the old formula Kinetic Energy = mass X velocity squared/2 we would have EXCEEDED light speed. But since that equation doesn't take relativity into account, it fails near light...

In Chinese and Jewish movies I'm guessing they do speak Chinese and Yiddish lol. As for English speaking films, I'd say that demons are associated in our culture with Christianity, which developed under the yoke of the Roman Empire (which spoke ancient Latin). So when a movie wants to invoke...

That's not possible becuase you are made of matter. As your velocity of increases towards the speed of light, the energy required grows exponentially towards infinity. It would take an infinite amount of energy to move a single atom to light speed. Because of space-time dialation, there is...

Well, if they make the RIGHT decisions, then yes :)

That's a quote sort of inspired from Lincoln. Plus, she IS speaking at a church. I doubt she speaks like that at secular events. "Neither [side] anticipated that the cause of the conflict [i.e., slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an...

I dont know anyone who "hates" him the way a lot of liberals "hate" Bush and the way conservatives "hated" Clinton The main problem with Obama seems to be that he's new and untested. There is no real record to judge him by. He has spent as much time campaigning as he has a senator. If Palin is...

Perhaps this has something to do with Russia's invasion of Ossetia? How long have the ships been there? Russia has trying to reassert dominance over its former satellites since Putin came to power, and I think this whole thing is fueled by high oil prices and Russia's oil revenues from places...

I'm not sure where people get the idea that Palin is bent on nuclear war with Russia? Seriously. She is a Christian, true enough, but aside from internet rumors, where is any evidence she would be inclined to use nuclear weapons? She's not even running for president. Reagan was a Christian...

Whee! LOL.. ya Libya is a "WTF" thing if true. I'm guessing China and India realize that McCain/republicans tend to favor free trade more that protectionism/tariffs as with the Dems. Although Clinton did eventually vote for NAFTA. Or perhaps China thinks McCain continuing the Occupation will...

Well.. we will never know for sure, thanks to that nasty little issue of galactic scale vs velocity of light/information. Whatever that thing was, it happened between 130 (at the very least) and 11 billions years ago. Space is the ultimate buzz kill, unless we figure out a way to work around...

Whee! Sorry, we will have to agree to disagree that socialism (public control over productive property and the distribution of wealth) is a good thing :) I'm not arguing the libertarian stance that there should effectively be NO oversight or governing of business, but generally speaking...

Whee! I don't fully understand your first point. EVERYONE votes the issues that matter to them and that they believe in. That's sorta the whole point. Are you saying I should vote for things I don't want? People who value more socialism will vote for Obama. People who don't, won't. People who...