I think the fact that half the feedback is you calling the other person stupid had something to do with it, and didn't give much of an explanation behind it. If you had used the explanation you give here explaining the neg feedback AS the negative feedback, maybe the mods would have cared less.
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Descartes was a theologian? I thought he was a mathematician.

Melonanade Master, if everything has to come from somewhere, how do you validate the existance of the universe? Or do you think it's been around forever (non-rhetorical)?

Go look at http://www.talkorigins.com, it's got a TON of stuff on this. Especially the page on 'jury-rigged design', where you have a bunch of animals that, if they had been designed, would have turned out a lot better. E.g. the african locust with wings on the thorax and wing nerves that originate ...

One thing I haven't read come up yet here is wave power, I'm pretty sure that's got some potential.

Also, Chris, most people already know about the energy crisis... Just trying to minimize your own power usage is probably more effective than telling other people about this problem.

Forget the 911 conspiracy. There is a far greater and more powerful conspiracy at work out there. Watch this video, and discover the shocking truth for yourself.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af07

Only assassin game I won--or ever played--I won by taking a continent and attacking only as much as I would in any other game, just generally around where my target was instead. It was 6 people, risk classic, and everyone else blitzed each other into one-man territories. So that speaks in favor of ...

Frank Herbert's DUNE

I haven't made a map before, and I don't have a lot of time right now, but that would be fantastic.

'Bob the Ninja' is one. And for sheer awesomeness I don't think you can beat 'Bob the Pirate Ninja'.

MRNate, I've never really heard that. Most of the research publishing that I've read (newspapers magazines etc) just uses the phrase 'studies now suggest' or 'experiments have shown'. Nothing about 'we know'.

All right, I JUST finished reading page 12. Re the tectonic plates post in which one guy states that because the earth is not 6000 years old, at least one part of christianity is wrong: Keep in mind that the statement the earth is only 6000 years old came from a Pope, who is recognised only by ...

I'm new to this thread, so sorry if I missed any cunning arguments central to the subject that weren't on pages 1 or 13, and in advance for anything stupid I say.

Why follow a series of old and outdated rules, just because "God said"?

Science tries its utmost to fix most of the holes in its ...