All water is recycled -- it's just that most of the time we are not aware of the process. The atoms in the water you drank today are well over 5 billion years old.
In fact, there is a small chance, that some of the same molecules of water you consumed today, once passed through the digestive tract of a Late Cretaceous Period dinosaur (H2O molecules much older than that, almost surely would have been split by some photosynthesizing plant, alga, or cyanobacterium).
The only difference between artificially purified water, and more naturally purified water, is psychological.
An error in word choice does not indicate an error in thought. It is the intent of the written word that counts. You are a Troll, so you intend to start flame wars.
Legends are quasi-historical and are therefore believable to weak minded individuals. Myths involve obviously fanciful stories about Creation and events that relate to Creation. Go ahead, look it up. NOW WHO IS THE REAL IDIOT.
Hey, knowledge is Power, maybee you should use it sometime.
I wasn't taught anything about homosexuality in school -- and yet I still came to the realization that I am in fact gay. It took 10 years of self-torment before I realized this.
IF the schools that I went to had awareness programs, then I wouldn't have had to go through that (I would have figured things out MUCH earlier).
I was brought up as a Christian, went to Church every Sunday and prayed to God each night. From the age of 11 on, a GREAT number of those prayers concerned my sexual orientation. I REALLY didn?t want to be gay, and I thought that it was unfair that I had been attracted to the same sex since at least the age of 7.
NOBODY MADE ME GAY. It was not a choice that I made. If I had a choice, I most certainly would have chosen a heterosexual orientation. It is utterly stupid to think that any intelligent person (I am a graduate student with an IQ of 136) would CHOOSE to be part of a misunderstood, persecuted and even hated class. Why would anyone want to risk their life to have FEWER civil rights than everyone else?
Where do you get your ?facts?? ?Virtually 100% of youth who "turn gay" do so after having been taught about it in public (government) schools? This statement is both factually false and logically incoherent.
FACT: 5-7% of the US adult male population is gay (conservative figure).
FACT: Historians have estimated that 5-7% of the adult male population was homosexual during Classical times in Greece (they took a partner, not a wife).
FACT: The ancient Greeks ENCOURAGED young men to have sex with one another so that young girls could be married as virgins.
FACT: Almost all Greek men stopped having ?homosexual? contact after marriage. So this proves that there is no link between ?learning? and orientation. Otherwise, there would have been a far larger percentage of homosexuals in ancient Greece than in the present-day West. In other words; It was OK to be gay in ancient Greece and yet 93-95% of all young men turned out to be straight. And yet, it is NOT OK to be gay in the West and the percentages are the same.
None of us CHOOSE our orientation (if such a choice existed, I would not be writing this because I would be straight) ? we are pre-wired to be oriented straight or gay (or some combination thereof) during embryonic development and VERY early childhood (or so the American Medical Association says ? but what do they know, they?re only a bunch of doctors and scientists!). Twin studies have proven this ? If one separated at birth identical twin is gay, then there is a 50% chance that the other twin is also gay, just a 25% chance that a non-twin brother is gay and a mere 5-7% chance that a random friend is gay.
So the greater the number of shared genes, the higher the probability that another person has the same sexual orientation.
Further, these probabilities stay the same regardless of environmental factors and upbringing. Therefore, the lost 50% of the probability indicated above CANNOT be attributed to anything that the affected person thinks, believes or consciously wants (it is probably due to random differences in how the brain organizes itself during development ? genes can only define fractal patterns for brain organization, not an exact blueprint).
So go ahead and trust your Scriptures. I?ll continue to trust the cold hard facts of science over a document that says that the planet is only 6000 years old ? ludicrous nonsense.
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"Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." After reading your post, I am convinced that you are an illiterate asshole.
How very appropriate.
All water is recycled -- it's just that most of the time we are not aware of the process. The atoms in the water you drank today are well over 5 billion years old. In fact, there is a small chance, that some of the same molecules of water you consumed today, once passed through the digestive tract of a Late Cretaceous Period dinosaur (H2O molecules much older than that, almost surely would have been split by some photosynthesizing plant, alga, or cyanobacterium). The only difference between artificially purified water, and more naturally purified water, is psychological.
An error in word choice does not indicate an error in thought. It is the intent of the written word that counts. You are a Troll, so you intend to start flame wars.
Legends are quasi-historical and are therefore believable to weak minded individuals. Myths involve obviously fanciful stories about Creation and events that relate to Creation. Go ahead, look it up. NOW WHO IS THE REAL IDIOT. Hey, knowledge is Power, maybee you should use it sometime.
I wasn't taught anything about homosexuality in school -- and yet I still came to the realization that I am in fact gay. It took 10 years of self-torment before I realized this. IF the schools that I went to had awareness programs, then I wouldn't have had to go through that (I would have figured things out MUCH earlier). I was brought up as a Christian, went to Church every Sunday and prayed to God each night. From the age of 11 on, a GREAT number of those prayers concerned my sexual orientation. I REALLY didn?t want to be gay, and I thought that it was unfair that I had been attracted to the same sex since at least the age of 7. NOBODY MADE ME GAY. It was not a choice that I made. If I had a choice, I most certainly would have chosen a heterosexual orientation. It is utterly stupid to think that any intelligent person (I am a graduate student with an IQ of 136) would CHOOSE to be part of a misunderstood, persecuted and even hated class. Why would anyone want to risk their life to have FEWER civil rights than everyone else? Where do you get your ?facts?? ?Virtually 100% of youth who "turn gay" do so after having been taught about it in public (government) schools? This statement is both factually false and logically incoherent. FACT: 5-7% of the US adult male population is gay (conservative figure). FACT: Historians have estimated that 5-7% of the adult male population was homosexual during Classical times in Greece (they took a partner, not a wife). FACT: The ancient Greeks ENCOURAGED young men to have sex with one another so that young girls could be married as virgins. FACT: Almost all Greek men stopped having ?homosexual? contact after marriage. So this proves that there is no link between ?learning? and orientation. Otherwise, there would have been a far larger percentage of homosexuals in ancient Greece than in the present-day West. In other words; It was OK to be gay in ancient Greece and yet 93-95% of all young men turned out to be straight. And yet, it is NOT OK to be gay in the West and the percentages are the same. None of us CHOOSE our orientation (if such a choice existed, I would not be writing this because I would be straight) ? we are pre-wired to be oriented straight or gay (or some combination thereof) during embryonic development and VERY early childhood (or so the American Medical Association says ? but what do they know, they?re only a bunch of doctors and scientists!). Twin studies have proven this ? If one separated at birth identical twin is gay, then there is a 50% chance that the other twin is also gay, just a 25% chance that a non-twin brother is gay and a mere 5-7% chance that a random friend is gay. So the greater the number of shared genes, the higher the probability that another person has the same sexual orientation. Further, these probabilities stay the same regardless of environmental factors and upbringing. Therefore, the lost 50% of the probability indicated above CANNOT be attributed to anything that the affected person thinks, believes or consciously wants (it is probably due to random differences in how the brain organizes itself during development ? genes can only define fractal patterns for brain organization, not an exact blueprint). So go ahead and trust your Scriptures. I?ll continue to trust the cold hard facts of science over a document that says that the planet is only 6000 years old ? ludicrous nonsense.
OK... well somebody needs a life.
Simple, the ballon is still within the atmosphere (that gaseous stuff we call air extends out to about 140 miles -- although you could hardly tell).