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Mounting Evidence for Water on Mars
Kent Simon writes "Space.com has an interesting article discussing new evidence from the mars rovers that shows there may really be Water on Mars."
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yeah sure... remebering Red Planet... ugh ... anybody step there bofore???
mountain...human...nop... the austronout haven't reach the planet, they lost in venus, the chicks there is better than in eart ;)
If the rover had landed at Syria Planum, they might have awakened the Shadow vessel buried there.
I was trying to point out humorously that the church doesn't respond well to advances in science and technology. What's that? The earth isn't the center of the universe? Blasphemy! Evolution? No way is an ape my ancestor! Dinosaurs? Well they existed with humans! The world's only 5,000 years old damn it!
I don't think I was a troll or flamebait, and I don't have a problem with the church. There's no mention of extra-terrestrial life though anywhere in the bible, I think that finding some would be pretty strong proof against the existence of god (but then again there has been much stuff never mentioned in the bible, or challenged by science that should make people say hey maybe god doesn't exist but then those people mostly ignore it or brush it off.) How would god talk about the creation of the entire universe and leave out "Oh and there's life on other planets, earth isn't the only place in the universe with life." It'd probably be much like discovering the first fossils of dinosaurs, they were never mentioned in the bible and then you get some strange beliefs that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time (like this)
This is a goodness. You grok?
The Bible is truth, but not exhaustive truth.
No, the Bible is not truth, and this is easy enough to prove. For it to be truth, it could not contain a single contradiction or factual innaccuracy.
Here is a page which lists a number of contradictions in the Bible.
Note that even one would be enough to prove that the Bible is not completely true and therefore could not be the unadulterated word of God.
I am aware that Christians have a number of excuses for this (the word of God is perfect, but it was transcribed by imperfect humans, errors were introduced in translation, etc.) but the fact is that this must necessarily cast doubt on the accuracy of the entire work. If you are forced to admit that certain passages of the Bible are inaccurate, how can you know for certain that all of the other passages are accurate?
ZFS: because love is never having to say fsck
Is it just me or is anyone else getting tired of hearing what music each rover "wakes-up" to as reported on by nasa each day on the NASA Rover Status Page?
It was cute the first few times, but now it's just getting insipid as these engineers try desperately to link the day's work with the title of some song.
Ok guys, we all know you have gigs of MP3s and you're all really cool. Now, why not just start every rover morning with Also Sprach Zarathustra?
In the interest of time and space I'm going to ignore most of your troll and only address one of the issues you bring up, namely that the existance of extra terestrial life would immediately crush christianity. Ok first off , just becuase the Bible doesn't say something doesn't mean christians immediately say it doesn't exist. The Bible doesn't mention E.T.'s in one way or another therefore there is a possiblity they do exist. The great christain author C.S. Lewis dealy with the subject in great detail in his letters as well as the Sci-Fi series "Out of the Silent Planet". The gist of it was that God is a constant across the universe. Aliens may have a diffrent name and series of events that alowed them to realize his existance, i.e. their own bibilical history and consiquently thier own Bible. Of course this is all hypothetical... but i show's that Christianity could survive a alien discovery. All this being said, which religeous organizations are claiming with absolute certainity, that there is no alien life? My church never made this statment. I don't see how any Christian church can say it, and if it's not mentioned in the Bible in anyway it's not the churchs jub to say it.