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I don't know, there's definitely something cool about midget fish people.

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Thanks Kelandon, so if the CD is the full version then I'll just reinstall that and just use my saved games from whatever directory?

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I don't believe we've found any giant, dragon, or unicorn skeletons yet, which shouldn't be hard to do considering they should be 6000 years old or less.

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We haven’t even found all of the living animals yet, let alone extinct ones. Yet, we do know that nature abounds with strange creatures with amazing abilities.

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Tiny people playing volleyball on ping-pong tables, spiking those little plastic balls over those little nets .... Come on, now, that was hilarious.

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What was before the Big Bang? Well, the universe before the Big Bang would be a sphere with negative radius. No such thing exists. Stephen Hawking's line is that asking what was before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole, and my rendition of that is that it's like asking what a negative-radius sphere looks like.

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EXACTLY! Which pretty well proves that there can be no "before time".

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"Beginning" DOES imply a preceding moment where the event(of said "beginning") had not yet occurred or the phenomenon did not yet exist.

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You have to make some sort of appeal to a form of Occam's Razor, here, or you're stabbing blindly in the dark.

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?! I do not follow you. And as a skeptic I LIVE by Occam's razor BTW.

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Who is SkeleTony, anyway and what planet is it from?

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Energies may be invisible, but they follow principles to do what they do. If there are energies harnessed by a "spiritually-focused" person to create an effect upon the material, is it supernatural, or merely a natural law of energies in operation which we don't understand yet?

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The fact that some energies seem to be able to travel at the speed of light/speed of thought around the world, as in the curious, sometimes psychic link of twins, for instance, does not make it unscientifice or magical. I don't see any ultimate division between the "spiritual" and the scientifiic. There are energetically-based principles of connectedness in the universe which I don't think we grasp yet, and I believe they can appear to supersede time and space in the conventional sense.

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If the universe had a "birth"(and i agree that this one DID) then this entails a preceding moment in which the universe did not exist, followed by the "bang" and so on...
Hence linear temporal sequence has ALWAYS existed.

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Absence of evidence is some of the strongest evidence of absence we can possibly have! The above makes for a cute slogan but it is not logically sound. You also have to keep in mind the difference between ordinary claims and extraordinary claims. Not having positive evidence that my aunt works for NASA is NOT evidence that she does not. That would be true. But not having evidence that my aunt is a vampiric telepath from dimension 'x934' IS evidence that she is not.

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My point is valid because there are complicated factors, unknowns, and untestables at this point as concerns our climate. I asked what we should do when opinions differ and the response from TM was 'scientific method instead of prayer' as if we're not talking about a scientific disagreement and as if scientific method is guaranteed to resolve all disputes.

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BTW, relativistic measurements are more precise at all velocities. Our limitations before yielded less accuracy.

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It's a good thing our resources and abilities are infinite now, otherwise we'd still have inaccurate and completely wrong beliefs.

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If object A is moving at velocity V1 relative to an observer and object B is moving at V2 relative to object A, what is the velocity of object B relative to the observer? Depending on the knowledge of the scientists and the tools at their disposal the answer will be different. We think we know now. They thought they knew back then.

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If your a mod than fine if not bugger off.

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Ah, the intoxication of being somebody.

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Please don't invert the colors and call it an edit... you can do so much more interesting things by color shifting via the editor.

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Are you talking about the scenario editor?

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Is this really the kind of software that a lot of people want to pirate?

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EDIT: TM, do you think it's possible to use scientific method and arrive at different results?

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Well pardon me. It just came across as blatantly ignorant.

If you want to attack someone's rhetoric, it helps to not lower yourself beneath their level.

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That wouldn't be so horrible, but that's not the message. I've seen, heard, and read him and everytime those who disagree with him on humans origins are ignorant, blinded, irrational, etc. His view is unquestionably right. He can't tolerate the fact that some people have looked at the evidence logically and disagree so they are classified as stupid. He is not alone in that sentiment.

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The scientist seeks to stave off existential dilemma by faith in a type of logic and a type of technique, as if all that has meaning or purpose in the universe is that which is soullessly reduced by and to technique. A world of scientists would be an Orwellian nightmare realized.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

This notion that scientists are arrogant fools, far more sure of their conclusions than they should be, seems to be a deeply rooted myth in some quarters. Just where on earth does this notion come from?

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I think it's a backlash to the attitude exemplified by folks like Dawkins who basically says, "Science has uplifted you. You may keep your spirituality for now, as long as you will accept what I tell you as you would the word of your God."

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