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Originally posted by cantbe323
You don't sound like a skeptic, more like a "status quo is fine with me" type.>>
The status quo is not automatically wrong. >>
True, but when professional status and reputation is at stake, I usually suspect some kind of cover up.
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tomk80
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 15:06:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
True, but when professional status and reputation is at stake, I usually suspect some kind of cover up.
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Which makes you a conspiracy theorist instead of a skeptic. |
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`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 15:47:38 [Permalink]
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." ~~ Charles Darwin
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 16:06:33 [Permalink]
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It seems some scientist, who don't know shit according to cantbe, have been busy. >>
It isn't that they're all stupid, it's just that most blindly believed their predecessors, can't relate to cause/effect, and make educated guesses about things they can't see in operation.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 19:57:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
It isn't that they're all stupid, it's just that most blindly believed their predecessors, can't relate to cause/effect, and make educated guesses about things they can't see in operation. |
This guy is an engineer who obviously hasn't had much experience with scientists. |
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Randy
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 21:22:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by cantbe323
It isn't that they're all stupid, it's just that most blindly believed their predecessors, can't relate to cause/effect, and make educated guesses about things they can't see in operation. |
This guy is an engineer who obviously hasn't had much experience with scientists.
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That and along with the scientific method. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 19:38:21 [Permalink]
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True, but when professional status and reputation is at stake, I usually suspect some kind of cover up.
Which makes you a conspiracy theorist instead of a skeptic.>>
That too, but I always revert back to skepticism in the end because that's where it all starts and ends. |
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 19:44:24 [Permalink]
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It isn't that they're all stupid, it's just that most blindly believed their predecessors, can't relate to cause/effect, and make educated guesses about things they can't see in operation. cantbe323>>
This guy is an engineer who obviously hasn't had much experience with scientists. >>
Maybe not as much as I need to, but I still have two eyes that see and enough experience to tell when many things aren't right.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 20:28:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Maybe not as much as I need to, but I still have two eyes that see and enough experience to tell when many things aren't right. |
But that's just it: the stuff you say about scientists is not right. But rather than making any attempt to correct yourself on your misperceptions, you insist that your failure to understand sciences of all sorts is the fault of the scientists, because (you claim) they don't want to embarrass themselves. Obviously, that's not a fault that you share with them, because you've been embarrassing yourself here now for almost a month, now.
Now, how about that debate? |
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filthy
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 Posted - 02/16/2010 : 04:35:57 [Permalink]
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Dave, do you really want to debate some clown who, evidently, is too brain-dead to learn how to place quotes on the forum? All you will get out of him is more hand-waving and abbreviated, gin-mill philosophy.
I don't see it happening, anyway. Cantbe is at least smart enough not to get into a situation where he is out-numbered by a single opponent.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/23/2010 : 13:39:22 [Permalink]
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Dave , do you really want to debate some clown who, evidently, is too brain-dead to learn how to place quotes on the forum? All you will get out of him is more hand-waving and abbreviated, gin-mill philosophy.
I don't see it happening, anyway. Cantbe is at least smart enough not to get into a situation where he is out-numbered by a single opponent.
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Your denial isn't really about denial. It's more like part of your "it works" memory being disconnected. Plug it back in and be your natural self again.
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filthy
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Posted - 02/23/2010 : 15:26:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Dave , do you really want to debate some clown who, evidently, is too brain-dead to learn how to place quotes on the forum? All you will get out of him is more hand-waving and abbreviated, gin-mill philosophy.
I don't see it happening, anyway. Cantbe is at least smart enough not to get into a situation where he is out-numbered by a single opponent.
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Your denial isn't really about denial. It's more like part of your "it works" memory being disconnected. Plug it back in and be your natural self again.
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what the hell does that even mean?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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cantbe323
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Posted - 02/23/2010 : 16:17:28 [Permalink]
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Your denial isn't really about denial. It's more like part of your "it works" memory being disconnected. Plug it back in and be your natural self again.
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what the hell does that even mean? >>
Most call it thinking, but IMO it's really just a weighted feeling from an action situation that worked or didn't work, somewhat like a binary code.
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tomk80
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Posted - 02/24/2010 : 05:57:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by cantbe323
Most call it thinking, but IMO it's really just a weighted feeling from an action situation that worked or didn't work, somewhat like a binary code.
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The sentence is grammatically correct, but again meaningless. |
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filthy
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Posted - 02/24/2010 : 06:26:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by tomk80
Originally posted by cantbe323
Most call it thinking, but IMO it's really just a weighted feeling from an action situation that worked or didn't work, somewhat like a binary code.
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The sentence is grammatically correct, but again meaningless.
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Indeed; ah well... 
A Beginner's Guide to Plate Tectonics
Some people think that the earth has always been the way it is, with many oceans and the seven continents, but it’s not true. In fact, the continents used to be joined together in one giant continent.
The name plate tectonics comes from the Latin phrases tectonicus, which means building. The theory of plate tectonics states that there are eight major plates and many minor plates in the earth’s lithosphere, which are constantly shifting (at about 50-100 mm per year). All the continents used to belong to one super continent now called Pangaea. Then, they drifted apart into Laurasia, which became North America and Eurasia, and Gondwana, which became the other continents. From there, they broke apart again.
The earth’s outer layers are divided into the lithosphere and the asthenosphere. The lithosphere is more rigid and cooler while the asthenosphere is opposite. The lithosphere has separate and distinct plates which are able to ride on top of the asthenosphere, which is a layer that flows easily. As the plates are able to move on top of it, they do shift. There are currently eight major plates. The African plate, the Australian plate, the Antarctic plate, the Indian plate which covers part of the Indian subcontinent and part of the Indian ocean, the Eurasian plate, the North and South American plates and the only major oceanic plate, the Pacific plate. There are also lots of minor plates.
The theory was actually built on an older theory of the continental drift. In the early 20th century, scientists observed that the opposite coasts on the Atlantic Ocean actually looked like they would have fit together in one piece but it was difficult to explain with the theories that were prevalent at the time.
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"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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