The problem is that science, generally, suggests that most of the claims of most religions are untrue, and has been a better guide to people's lives. Your claim that the advancement of science has strengthened Christianity is an interesting one, I would certainly have claimed the opposite to be true, but it probably depends upon the metric. Christianity these days seems mostly reserved to the poorly educated. The more science creeps in, the less room there seems in the brain for religion.
I'm definitely aware that there have been those who criticize all religions in the past. I was thinking more in terms of it becoming a broad social movement. I don't think it has ever reached more than a miniscule fraction (maybe 1-2%) before.
Well, even so, heat death will render all our technologies inoperable before then anyway. Bottom line, there's little hope of human civilization lasting more than 10^20th years.
But everything is eventually going to fail in 10^13 years when proton decay catches up with us. How about we define a reasonable target for everlasting for our technology, like maybe a human lifetime.
Yes, that's precisely what I meant. There's a common interpretation where God's word entered Mary though the ear as the holy spirit, and then dwelt in her womb, making her pregnant. Aural sex.
I'd say it's the advancement of science in explaining our world. 5000 years ago, you needed a diety to explain fire. 2000 years ago you needed a diety to explain someone surviving a near-death experience. Today everything around us is familiar science.
Hmm... universally across the world, without ever having been tried? This does not seem like a likely outcome. The price of implementing a solution to solar heating will be within reach of basically every country in 100 years, barring some sort of collapse of civilization.
Well, according to some interpretations it was aural sex, which wouldn't (quite) qualify as rape, but rather probably some kind of sexual abuse of a minor.
That may be the largest share, but it still doesn't reach over half. He used the word only to emphasize that point. More people believe the stories of christianity to be fiction than believe them to be truth.
But the fear and NIMBY are directly caused by the nuclear industry's crying of 'no-wolf' turning out to be untrue. Now they are crying 'no-wolf' again, and asking us to trust them. They have a credibility problem so sever it likely cannot be solved until the impacted generation passes on.
The solar heating problem won't kill us for closer to a billion years. And we actually have the technology to solve that one today (and it will only get cheaper with time). So the moment that threat gets serious enough, we'll solve it.
I'd say we're the worst: no other species has a higher count of nuclear disasters, nuclear disasters per population, or pretty much any other metric with regards to frequency of nuclear disasters.
You feel that there isn't a sufficient amount of irrationality out there to generate wars now, but after dark matter is discovered, there will be a big increase?
It was mainly invented to explain why the amount of gravitational effects observed exceed the amount of mass visible. If dark matter has normal gravity, but interacts with other matter in an otherwise very limited fashion, then, no, there wouldn't need to be more of it.
Yes. The benefits they pay are going largely to people I would like to have them (medicare/ss). Medicare could do things like mandate generics and buy out-of-country drugs, but otherwise, yeah, I think they're doing mostly the right things and just don't have the funding. Tax it out of the rich who have stolen it from the rest of us anyway (if they hadn't taken such a large share, of course, the need for these govt programs would be greatly reduced). Since the rich won't give up what they've taken willingly, the government is our only tool to get a fair distribution of the wealth of this country.
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The problem is that science, generally, suggests that most of the claims of most religions are untrue, and has been a better guide to people's lives. Your claim that the advancement of science has strengthened Christianity is an interesting one, I would certainly have claimed the opposite to be true, but it probably depends upon the metric. Christianity these days seems mostly reserved to the poorly educated. The more science creeps in, the less room there seems in the brain for religion.
http://www.monachos.net/forum/showthread.php?1587-Conceiving-Jesus-through-the-ear
You can find various cites through google, but the above offers a relatively clear-cut explanation.
I'm definitely aware that there have been those who criticize all religions in the past. I was thinking more in terms of it becoming a broad social movement. I don't think it has ever reached more than a miniscule fraction (maybe 1-2%) before.
Well, even so, heat death will render all our technologies inoperable before then anyway.
Bottom line, there's little hope of human civilization lasting more than 10^20th years.
Go back and look again. It's more than 4 billion to red giant. Only 1 billion to significant heating.
We radiate the excess into space, then get a new batch the next day. The cycle continues!
But everything is eventually going to fail in 10^13 years when proton decay catches up with us. How about we define a reasonable target for everlasting for our technology, like maybe a human lifetime.
Yes, that's precisely what I meant. There's a common interpretation where God's word entered Mary though the ear as the holy spirit, and then dwelt in her womb, making her pregnant. Aural sex.
Not me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle
The sun will be steadily brightening over the next 4 billion years before going red giant. It will make the earth quite toasty.
I'd say it's the advancement of science in explaining our world. 5000 years ago, you needed a diety to explain fire. 2000 years ago you needed a diety to explain someone surviving a near-death experience. Today everything around us is familiar science.
Hmm ... universally across the world, without ever having been tried? This does not seem like a likely outcome. The price of implementing a solution to solar heating will be within reach of basically every country in 100 years, barring some sort of collapse of civilization.
Well, according to some interpretations it was aural sex, which wouldn't (quite) qualify as rape, but rather probably some kind of sexual abuse of a minor.
That may be the largest share, but it still doesn't reach over half. He used the word only to emphasize that point. More people believe the stories of christianity to be fiction than believe them to be truth.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modern
I'd say it's a relatively recent phenomenon for people to hold all religions, rather than a specific subset in contempt.
I point this out only because the rest of your post was well written:
You probably meant 'I shudder to think'.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shudder
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shutter
What's wrong with his claim? Just because 70+% of the population isn't modern doesn't mean the rest of us aren't holding them in contempt.
But the fear and NIMBY are directly caused by the nuclear industry's crying of 'no-wolf' turning out to be untrue. Now they are crying 'no-wolf' again, and asking us to trust them. They have a credibility problem so sever it likely cannot be solved until the impacted generation passes on.
The solar heating problem won't kill us for closer to a billion years. And we actually have the technology to solve that one today (and it will only get cheaper with time). So the moment that threat gets serious enough, we'll solve it.
I'd say we're the worst: no other species has a higher count of nuclear disasters, nuclear disasters per population, or pretty much any other metric with regards to frequency of nuclear disasters.
If you like biomass, we should really put our efforts into solar research. Because biomass is just solar power collected very inefficiently.
Redundant? Check the post order metamods.
You feel that there isn't a sufficient amount of irrationality out there to generate wars now, but after dark matter is discovered, there will be a big increase?
It was mainly invented to explain why the amount of gravitational effects observed exceed the amount of mass visible. If dark matter has normal gravity, but interacts with other matter in an otherwise very limited fashion, then, no, there wouldn't need to be more of it.
Fair enough. I've always thought of several as more than 5, but having checked the definition it's actually only more than two.
Yes. The benefits they pay are going largely to people I would like to have them (medicare/ss). Medicare could do things like mandate generics and buy out-of-country drugs, but otherwise, yeah, I think they're doing mostly the right things and just don't have the funding. Tax it out of the rich who have stolen it from the rest of us anyway (if they hadn't taken such a large share, of course, the need for these govt programs would be greatly reduced). Since the rich won't give up what they've taken willingly, the government is our only tool to get a fair distribution of the wealth of this country.