Milk Bubble Wrote:Like: Bill Nye. His slogan should be "Provin' everyone wrong with science since <insert when he started>". He's most well known for his kid's show, but all his other stuff I've seen has been totally awesome, too. I mean really, I'm pretty sure he was the only fun part of science in my childhood, and I'm sure plenty of other people agree with me.

Josh Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistPlanet2#p/c/27090E3480CFAC56/0/YFjoEgYOgRo

Seriously, watch this debate he has with an Intelligent Design proponent and tell me you don't die a little inside. And he's been arguing with these guys for years.

Psyren Wrote:Show me a crocaduck that isnt a fake and maybe ill play along.

Milk Bubble Wrote:Like: Bill Nye

Ashe Wrote:Regarding the fall of Rome... Why do you feel that it was the opposite (I assume you mean lack of Christianity is what lead to its downfall)?

Kaden Wrote:Well at least you get credit for saying as much in a relatively intelligent and reasonable way.

Kaden Wrote:Start what?

Your posts speak much more than I have. If anyone started anything, it was you.

Kaden Wrote:I had a much more passive-aggressive post half typed up, but I simply don't have the energy or interest for it.

Psyren Wrote:Sigh im sorry I cant beleive in the theory of evolution when the man who made it famous (Charles Darwain.) even on his death bead said it was a load of hogwash.

Quote:Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine.

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, second British edition, 1860

Quote:Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume under the form of an abstract, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the "plan of creation," "unity of design," &c., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact. Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of a certain number of facts will certainly reject my theory. A few naturalists, endowed with much flexibility of mind, and who have already begun to doubt on the immutability of species, may be influenced by this volume; but I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality. Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, second British edition, 1860

Piper Juunanagou Wrote:Actually, the rise of Christianity did play an important role in destabilizing the late Roman Empire and helping usher it toward its inevitable collapse. >_>;