America is doomed - only days left Answered

I tried to e-mail him but his out-of-office reply said he was on vacation. He's apparently Tuna fishing in Colorado but should be back a week on Wednesday. Cheers, Pat. Pending

so this is what it is like being dead... no wonder dead people never call!

OMS I'm dead? Unless th afterlife is the same as the first, I'm alive, but not well.

The Nac Mac Feegle believe they are already dead, and have done something good in their previous life, since a world so full of wondrous things to drink and fight must be heaven.

Removes hat, attempts to play last post on snail shell horn, fails.

Er, no - check my page for my opinions on religion.

LOL

Then again, the Qur'an did mention the Big Bang, evolution, and more >_>

Big Bang? In the Qur'an / Koran? Then what about all the Islamic Creationists?

The big bang was intelligently initialized don't you see ? Who was it that spoke of an "explosion in a junk yard" not being able to create anything ? (was that Fred Hoyle ?)

It was poor old Fred, but he talked about a tornado in a junkyard. His claim has since been debunked as being statistically fallacious.

A few comments: not arguing just some meandering thoughts.....from the link...

# 1:They calculate the probability of the formation of a "modern" protein, or even a complete bacterium with all "modern" proteins, by random events. This is not the abiogenesis theory at all.

Comment: one of the main arguments used is that abiogenesis is not really part of the theory of evolution anyways. It has nothing to do with a gecko becoming a bird. It should not even enter into the conversation on evolution nor on the Big Bang (an astrophysical event).

# 2: They assume that there is a fixed number of proteins, with fixed sequences for each protein, that are required for life.

What does this have to do with the big bang? As the rest of the list would have the same comment, I will end here.

Too often either side of the argument argue for the sake of either argument itself, or just "to be correct", rather then addressing a subject with the actual subject so as not to leave me wondering: but what has that to do with the price of eggs in China?

You have pointed out some of the mistakes YECs make when trying to argue against evolution using cosmology, or BB using biology.

Yep, it is committed from both perspectives sadly.

a question if I may: a little off subject......have you ever read: Einstein's Greatest Blunder the Cosmological Constant ? [http://hey calculate the probability of the formation of a "modern" protein, or even a complete bacterium with all "modern" proteins, Link here]

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder of his life.
-- George Gamow, My World Line, 1970

I have a few of Gamow's books too...namely: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science....cool reading material.

Drat ! I messed up the link: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~jpl/cosmo/blunder.html#[1 here it is: Einstein's Greatest Blunder]

BTW: my post below is addressing the info at the link you gave, not the comment nor your intent. :-)

Oh great, one more day *rolls eyes*

Aha, very good :P

Um, water seeps downhill.....maybe the top of a mountain would be better ?

I'll go into my underground submarine (that way I'll stay safe from flying debris until the water loosens the dirt around it) :P Though, I'm sure if there was a tsunami large enough to wipe America clean, it'd probably also end up destroying the rest of the world too.

underground submarine

If it is underground rather then under water it has been converted from a submarine to a subterran LOL

you didn't duct tape cellophane around your house ??? you are doomed !

The duct tape and cellophane is good for making water stills. What's the official purpose... smallpox/antrax/flu quarantines?

Yes, something like that was the original intent...
Now it has been discovered that it is only good to suffocate the ignorant (most furnaces will put out SOME CO₂ and or CO, it it isn't a recommended practice anymore)