The "moral community"? Gee, there's no unwarranted elitism in that, is there? From my life experiences, people who accept evolution as true are generally of a higher moral calibre than those who believe in the "theory" of creationism. Funny how that works...
Um... from where exactly have you pulled all of this? First, the Earth is only a little more than four billion years old, which isn't half of either twelve billion, or the more likely accurate fourteen billion. Now, as for this one (1) sentient species... huh? There were hundreds of thousands, millions even, of sentient species on this planet last I checked, have been for upwards of half a billion years. It's also noteworthy to mention that life first appeared on Earth very shortly after it first became possible for life to exist; that seems to imply that life is fairly easy to create and will appear spontaneously in the right environment. Anyways, I could go on about the low-metal stars and the "Sol isn't ordinary" thing, but a couple people have beaten me to it...
I heard somewhere that Metallica and the RIAA are filing a lawsuit against pi, citing that, because of its infinite string of digits, embedded somewhere within is a complete digital copy of "Enter Sandman". 317,865 others have subsequently filed lawsuits for similar reasons.
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The "moral community"? Gee, there's no unwarranted elitism in that, is there? From my life experiences, people who accept evolution as true are generally of a higher moral calibre than those who believe in the "theory" of creationism. Funny how that works...
You both forgot superfluidity, the state of helium at 1K and at 100 or so atmospheres. You know, zero viscosity, crawls out of containers?
Um... from where exactly have you pulled all of this? First, the Earth is only a little more than four billion years old, which isn't half of either twelve billion, or the more likely accurate fourteen billion. Now, as for this one (1) sentient species... huh? There were hundreds of thousands, millions even, of sentient species on this planet last I checked, have been for upwards of half a billion years. It's also noteworthy to mention that life first appeared on Earth very shortly after it first became possible for life to exist; that seems to imply that life is fairly easy to create and will appear spontaneously in the right environment. Anyways, I could go on about the low-metal stars and the "Sol isn't ordinary" thing, but a couple people have beaten me to it...
I heard somewhere that Metallica and the RIAA are filing a lawsuit against pi, citing that, because of its infinite string of digits, embedded somewhere within is a complete digital copy of "Enter Sandman". 317,865 others have subsequently filed lawsuits for similar reasons.